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objectTag() function for your intermediate-to-advanced object-creation projects.
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Creating and Using Objects
Offering help
As features are added, objects often grow in complexity. An object with multiple parameters??”especially if
it is intended for public release??”could potentially benefit from a Help button. Dreamweaver offers just
such a button to aid custom-object builders and their users.
Including the displayHelp() function causes Dreamweaver to display a Help button, directly beneath
the OK and Cancel buttons found to the right of a user-created parameter form. When selected, this button
calls whatever is defined in the function.
For example, to define a Help button that puts up an informative message within Dreamweaver, you might
code the displayHelp() function this way:
displayHelp() {
alert(???Be sure to name all your layers first???)
}
You??™re not restricted to in-program alerts. If you have a much larger help file, you can display it in your primary
browser by using Dreamweaver??™s built-in browseDocument() function. With the following definition,
when the Help button is selected, Dreamweaver first opens the primary browser (if it??™s not already
running) and then shows the object-specific help file:
displayHelp() { dreamweaver.
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