Specifications
Property Inspectors 123
A simple Property inspector example
The following Property inspector inspects a fictional tag called
INTJ. The INTJ tag is empty (it
has no closing tag), so its selection type is
exact. As long as the selection is an INTJ tag, the
Property inspector appears—so the
canInspectSelection() function returns true every time.
To have a different inspector appear, depending on the value of the
INTJ tag’s TYPE attribute, for
example, the
canInspectSelection() function must check the value of the TYPE attribute to
determine which Property inspector is the right one. (This is how the keywords and description
Property inspectors work, because “keywords” and “description” are not tags but values of the
META tag’s NAME attribute.)
<!-- tag:INTJ,priority:5,selection:exact,vline,hline -->
<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "-//Macromedia//DWExtension layout-engine5.0//pi">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Interjection Inspector</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function canInspectSelection(){
return true;
}
function inspectSelection(){
// Get the DOM of the current document var
// theDOM = dw.getDocumentDOM();
// Get the selected node var theObj = theDOM.getSelectedNode();
// Get the value of the TYPE attribute on the INTJ tag var
// theType = theObj.getAttribute(’type’);
// Initialize a variable called typeIndex to -1. This will be
// used to store the menu index that corresponds to
// the value of the TYPE attribute
var typeIndex = -1;
// If there was a TYPE attribute
if (theType){
// If the value of TYPE is "jeepers", set typeIndex to 0
if (theType.toLowerCase() == "jeepers"){
typeIndex = 0;
// If the value of TYPE is "jinkies", set typeIndex to 1
}else if (theType.toLowerCase() == "jinkies"){
typeIndex = 1;
// If the value of TYPE is "zoinks", set typeIndex to 2
}else if (theType.toLowerCase() == "zoinks"){
typeIndex = 2;
}
}
// If the value of the TYPE attribute was "jeepers",
// "jinkies", or "zoinks", choose the corresponding
// option from the pop-up menu in the interface
if (typeIndex != -1){
document.topLayer.document.topLayerForm.intType.¬
selectedIndex = typeIndex;
}
}
function setInterjectionTag(){
// Get the DOM of the current document
var theDOM = dw.getDocumentDOM();
// Get the selected node