User Guide

External application functions 145
dreamweaver.getSecondaryBrowser()
Availability
Dreamweaver 3.
Description
Gets the path to the secondary browser.
Arguments
None.
Returns
A string that contains the path on the user’s computer to the secondary browser, which is
expressed as a file:// URL. If no secondary browser is defined, it returns nothing.
dreamweaver.openHelpURL()
Availability
Dreamweaver MX.
Description
Opens the specified Help file in the operating system Help viewer.
Dreamweaver displays help content in the standard operating system help viewer instead of a
browser. Help content is in HTML, but it is packaged for Windows HTML Help or Help Viewer
for Mac OS X.
The following four types of files comprise the full help content. For more information on Help
files, see your operating system documentation.
• Help book
A Help book consists of the HTML Help files, images, and indexes. In Windows, the Help
book is a file that has a name with a .chm extension. On the Macintosh, the Help book is
afolder.
The Help book files reside in the Dreamweaver Help folder.
• The help.xml file
The help.xml file maps book IDs to help book names. For example, the following XML code
maps the book ID for Dreamweaver Help to the filenames that contains help on both the
Windows and Macintosh operating systems:
<?xml version = "1.0" ?>
<help-books>
<book-id id=
"DW_Using" win-mapping="UsingDreamweaver.chm" mac-
mapping=
"Dreamweaver Help"/>
</help-books>
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