Custom floating panels have the same basic interface as standard Dreamweaver panels. Any floating panel
can be resized or grouped with other floating panels, standard or custom. After it is grouped, a custom
floating panel also has a tab that, when selected, brings the floating-panel interface to the front. A couple of
noteworthy differences exist between built-in and custom floating panels:
n Built-in floating panel tabs can display names and icons; custom floating panel tabs can only display
names.
n Built-in floating panels can be assigned a minimum size; custom floating panels cannot (that is,
the user can shrink them down to about 100 x 100 pixels).
Floating panels, like most other extensions, are a combination of HTML and JavaScript. HTML is the main
file that is called; it provides the user interface via an HTML form. JavaScript provides the functionality from
the of the HTML page.
Like Property inspectors, floating panels have their own DTD that you must include as the
first line in your custom floating panel files: DWExtension layout-engine5.0//floater???>.
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Floating panels are stored in the Dreamweaver 9\Configuration\Floaters folder. However, unlike commands
or objects, you can??™t just save your custom floating panel in a particular folder to make it accessible.
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