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150 Insert Bar Objects

4. Edit the insertbar.xml file to identify the location of these new files and set attributes (see

“The Insert bar definition file” on page 141) for the button’s appearance.

5. Restart Dreamweaver or reload extensions.

The new object appears on the Insert bar in the specified location.

Adding objects to the Insert menu

To add or control the position of an object on the Insert menu (or any other menu), modify

the menus.xml file. This file controls the entire menu structure for Dreamweaver. For more

information about modifying the menus.xml file, see Chapter 8, “Menus and Menu

Commands,” on page 181.

If you plan to distribute the extension to other Dreamweaver users, see “Working with the

Extension Manager” on page 109 to learn more about packaging extensions.

A simple insert object example

This example adds an object to the Insert bar so users can add a line through (strike through)

selected text by clicking a button. This object is useful if a user needs to make editorial

comments in a document.

Because this example performs text manipulation, you may want to explore some of the

objects from the Text pop-up menu in the HTML category on the Insert bar as models. For

example, look at the Bold, Emphasis, and Heading object files to see similar functionality,

where Dreamweaver wraps a tag around selected text.

You will perform the following steps to create the strike-through insert object:

■ Creating the HTML file

■ Adding the JavaScript functions

■ Creating the image

■ Editing the insertbar.xml file

■ Adding a dialog box

■ Building an Insert bar pop-up menu

NOTE

Although you can store Object files in separate folders, it’s important that each

filename be unique. The dom.insertObject() function, for example, looks for files

anywhere within the Objects folder without regard to subfolders (for more

information about the dom.insertObject() function,

see the Dreamweaver API

Reference). If a file called Button.htm exists in the Forms folder and another object

file called Button.htm is in the MyObjects folder, Dreamweaver cannot distinguish

between them. If two separate instances of Button.htm exist, dom.insertObject()

displays two objects called Button, and the user might not recognize any difference.

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