Specifications

The Dreamweaver JavaScript API 393
The following example shows the format of the CodeHints.xml file.
<codehints>
<menugroup name="HTML Entities" enabled="true" id="CodeHints_HTML_Entities">
<description>
<![CDATA[ When you type a ’&’, a drop-down menu shows
a list of HTML entities. The list of HTML entities
is stored in Configuration/CodeHints.xml. ]]>
</description>
<menu pattern="&amp;">
<menuitem value="&amp;amp;" texticon="&amp;"/>
<menuitem value="&amp;lt;" icon="lessThan.gif"/>
</menu>
</menugroup>
<menugroup name="Tag Names" enabled="true" id="CodeHints_Tag_Names">
<description>
<![CDATA[ When you type ’<’, a drop-down menu shows
all possible tag names. You can edit the list of tag
names using the
<a href="javascript:dw.popupTagLibraryEditor()"> Tag Library Editor
</a>]]>
</description>
</menugroup>
<menugroup name="Function Arguments" enabled="true"
id="CodeHints_Function_Arguments">
<description>
...
</description>
<function pattern="ArraySort(array, sort_type, sort_order)"
doctypes="CFML"/>
<function pattern="Response.addCookie(Cookie cookie)"
doctypes="JSP"/>
</menugroup>
<codehints>
Code Hints tags
The CodeHints.xml file contains the following tags, which define Code Hints menus. You can
use these tags to define additional Code Hints menus.
<codehints>
Description
The codehints tag is the root of the CodeHints.xml file.
Attributes
None.
Contents
One or more menugroup tags.
Container
None.
Example
<codehints>