It definately looks promising.. :) it could be very nice to have, I will try and find the manual, but when I first looked into it (just after dreamweaver mx came out) they didn't have anything to support MX development, so now some time has passed I think they should be current on support
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Piskorski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 12:44 AM Subject: [AOLSERVER] Dreamweaver ADP hooks Re: [AOLSERVER] Cold Fusion vs Tcl in AOLserver: Opinions > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:53:10PM -0700, Patrick Spence wrote: > > > I think with only a little work, someone familiar with making extensions for > > Dreamweaver could easily code a module for TCL/ADP that works just as well > > as its PHP application tools.. which would give rapid prototyping and > > It was done for the ACS 4.x templating system, which of course uses > ADP. I don't have the code, but I know for a fact that the > Dreamweaver hooks were written, by Jonathan Sefton > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who was CTO at one of the aD London office's > clients. Here's what he had to say about that, back in October: > > ----- Forwarded message from Jonathan Sefton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > From: "Jonathan Sefton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Andrew Piskorski'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "David Fullagar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "'Jeff Davis'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: DreamWeaver ADP hooks? > Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 20:00:34 +0100 > > Hi Andrew, > > Sorry for the slow reply; just moved house & been waiting for NTL to > hook up broadband, so haven't been checking email very often (forgotten > how tedious dial-up is). > > I don't think I do have the Dreamweaver stuff - Infoshare were pretty > strict about returning all s/w on exit. It's just possible I might have > it on another machine which isn't unpacked yet. Bear with me and I'll > check - might take a couple of days. > > If I can't find the original stuff, it should be pretty easy to > reproduce. It wasn't such a big deal - Dreamweaver has its own > XML-based extension mechanism which lets you describe tags & behaviours. > You just drop the XML files into the appropriate config folders & it > just works. Macromedia have (had?) a very detailed manual on how to do > this; it is (was?) available on their website in PDF format. All the > stuff I did was with DW-4. I notice they now have something called > Dreamweaver 'MX' - don't know how different that is. > > We did have some good ideas for more advanced ways to connect > Dreamweaver & ADP, in particular by using some of the 'page contract' > information to build 'palettes' of available fields for the graphic > designers to drop onto the page. We also had some ideas for dynamically > displaying a complete page within Dreamweaver, i.e. applying all the ADP > <master> and <include> tags. > > Incidentally, I assume you're already aware of Nick Strugnell's 'themes' > code, which we used pretty extensively on the Infoshare site? That was > probably a bigger hit with the designers than the Dreamweaver extension. > > I'll drop you another email if/when I find the Dreamweaver stuff. > > Cheers, > Jonathan > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > ----- Forwarded message from Jonathan Sefton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > From: "Jonathan Sefton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: DreamWeaver ADP hooks? > Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 22:44:25 +0100 > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Main Dreamweaver documentation... > http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/documentation.html > > For DW-4 you want to start with this doc: > 'Using Dreamweaver 4' - zipped PDF: > http://download.macromedia.com/pub/dreamweaver/documentation/using_dream > weaver4.zip > ***Page 537 onwards: > 'Customizing the interpretation of third-party tags' > This tells you how to define new tags (i.e. the ADP tags) > > 'Extending Dreamweaver 4' - zipped PDF: > http://download.macromedia.com/pub/dreamweaver/extend/ext_dreamweaver4.z > ip > ***Chapter 8 - This tells you how to create custom 'property > inspectors', which let you add support for the attributes of the ADP > tags to the DW interface. For example, when you select an <INCLUDE> tag > you get a dialog to modify its attribute(s). > > Disclaimer: I don't know anything about Dreamweaver MX! > > J. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.piskorski.com
