Macromedia dreamweaver 8-extending dreamweaver User Manual

What’s new in Dreamweaver

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Determine which files you need to modify or create.

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Plan the user interface (UI), if any, for the extension.

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Create the necessary files and save them in the appropriate folders.

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Restart Dreamweaver so that it recognizes the new extension.

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Test the extension.

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Package the extension so that you can share it with others. For more information, see 

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Additional resources for extension writers

To communicate with other developers who are involved in writing extensions, you might 
want to join the Dreamweaver extensibility newsgroup. You can access the website for this 
newsgroup at 

What’s new in Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver 8 includes the following new features and interfaces that are extensible. Each of 
these features has new related functions, which are listed in the Dreamweaver API Reference.

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Improved site synchronization

The comparison of local and remote files is more reliable in Dreamweaver 8. 

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Copy and paste improvements

Copy and paste choices have been simplified. Users can also now set the default behavior 
of a paste operation to be to paste text only.

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Site root-relative links mapping has been improved.

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Code collapse

Dreamweaver now lets users selectively collapse or expand segments of code.

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Code view toolbar

Dreamweaver now provides a toolbar in Code view that allows quick access to commonly 
used commands.

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Background file transfer

This feature lets users to do other things in Dreamweaver while processing server-related 
tasks. 

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File compare integration

Dreamweaver now lets users launch a third-party file comparison application to compare 
two local files, two remote files, or the local and remote versions of a file.