Hi Maxwell, Thank you for taking the time to respond. I do have these documents and unfortunately the content is insufficient. However... before I whined one last time, I did some more experimentation and I think I finally figured it out. If it is of any interest to your technical publications team, I've put a summary of the problem and my recommendations below. Again, thanks for your time.
Russ RE: Adding a custom dialog box to a workspace It took me a long time to figure this out because I think that the FDK documentation is missing some details. Here is what it says now: "Because FrameMaker provides support for workspaces, the client's modeless dialogs can become a part of a workspace. To make this work, the client has to handle the notification FA_Note_Dialog_Create, which is sent to the client when the workspace has to launch the modeless dialog for a particular client." I guess the answer is in there, but there was not enough clarification for me to figure it out initially. I finally figured out that when you save a workspace with the dialog open, the notification then happens automatically once you select or reset that workspace in the future. Also, there is the fact that "sparm" is set to the name of the dialog, which you need to test in order to know how to respond. So, I would recommend adding some verbiage similar to the following: When a workspace is saved with a custom modeless dialog open, the name and positioning of that dialog are stored with the workspace. Then, when the user selects or resets the workspace, FrameMaker sends the FA_Note_Dialog_Create to the respective client with sparm set to the name of the dialog box. It is then the responsibility of the client to handle this notification and execute the required code to open the dialog box again. Once the dialog box is open and the client code exits, the workspace configuration routine will continue and automatically position the dialog box as stored in the workspace. Note the following: - FA_Note_Dialog_Create is only sent when the workspace includes a custom dialog that was open when the workspace was saved. If multiple custom dialogs were open, individual notifications are sent for each. - The client notification code must reopen the dialog itself (F_ApiOpenResource(), etc.), then the workspace will position it. - Like all notifications, FA_Note_Dialog_Create must be enabled with F_ApiNotification(). >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Message: 17 Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:19:27 -0700 From: Maxwell Hoffmann <mhoff...@adobe.com> To: "r...@weststreetconsulting.com" <r...@weststreetconsulting.com> Cc: "framers@lists.frameusers.com" Subject: FDK documentation links (Subj was "April 11th Webinar: FrameMaker 11...." Message-ID: <40bbbb40-cc12-4822-974b-11eea0dde...@adobe.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Russ, Thank you for your inquiry and the reminder. I consulted internal resources and URL links to current FDK documentation are listed below. Note: some of the URLs below may have line breaks and require post e-mail format editing. FDK Installer File: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/framemaker/FDK11_0380_4_Setup.zip FDK 11.0 Documentation : http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/framemaker/pdfs/fdkinstallguide.pdf http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/framemaker/pdfs/fdkprogrammerguide.pdf http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/framemaker/pdfs/fdkreference.pdf The page with all these links: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/framemaker.html I hope that these links contain what you are seeking. If you need more information, please let me know. _____________________________ Maxwell Hoffmann | Product Evangelist | Adobe | p. 503.336.5952 | c. 503.805.3719 | mhoff...@adobe.com<mailto:mhoff...@adobe.com> http://twitter.com/maxwellhoffmann - http://www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellhoffmann blogs.adobe.com/mbhoffmann<http://blogs.adobe.com/mbhoffmann> & blogs.adobe.com/techcomm<http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm> Upcoming webinar calendar: http://adobe.ly/Pbz6x On Apr 7, 2013, at 5:25 AM, "r...@weststreetconsulting.com<mailto:r...@weststreetconsulting.com>" <r...@weststreetconsulting.com><mailto:r...@weststreetconsulting.com>> wrote: Hi Maxwell, Sounds like a good webinar to have. While you are on the subject of workspaces and pods, I wanted to bring up an important issue to me - the lack of information on how to make custom FDK dialog boxes (and presumably ExtendScript dialogs as well) that can be added to workspaces. The FDK documentation says you can do it, but doesn't say how. I've asked on this list, the Adobe user-to-user forums, and the Yahoo framedev list, with no results except crickets chirping. Many of us rely heavily on FDK and/or ES extensions with custom pods. It is a significant obstacle to the acceptance of workspace tools, etc., when we are unable to configure them with our custom interfaces as well. Thanks, Russ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.