User Guide

164 Chapter 8: Menus and Menu Commands

Placing the command file in the Menu folder

To implement the menu Undo and Redo menu items, you must save the MyMenu.htm

command file in the Dreamweaver Configuration/Menus folder or a subfolder that you create.

The location of the file must agree with the location that you specified on the

menuitem tag. To

make it accessible to Dreamweaver, either restart Dreamweaver or reload extensions. For

information on how to reload extensions, see “Running the command” on page 144.

To run the menu commands, select the menu item when it is enabled. Dreamweaver will invoke

the functions in the command file, as described in “How menu commands work” on page 155.

A dynamic menu

This example implements the Dreamweaver Preview in Browser submenu that displays a list of

available browsers. The example also opens the current file, or the selected files in the Site panel,

in the user-specified browser. Implementing this dynamic menu consists of the following steps:

1 Creating the dynamic menu items

2 Writing the JavaScript code

Creating the dynamic menu items

The following menu tags in the menus.xml file define the Preview in Browser submenu of the

File menu:

<menuitem dynamic name="No Browsers Selected"

file="Menus/MM/PIB_Dynamic.htm" arguments="'No Browsers'"

id="DWMenu_File_PIB_Default" />

<menuitem name="_Edit Browser List..." enabled="true"

command="dw.editBrowserList()" id="DWMenu_File_PIB_EditBrowserList" />

</menu>

The first menuitem tag defines the default menu item No Browsers Selected, which appears on

the submenu if you have not specified any browsers for the Preview in Browser item in

Preferences. If you specified the Internet Explorer browser, however, the submenu would look like

the following figure:

The

name attribute for the first menu item specifies the command file PIB_Dynamic.htm. This

file contains the following line:

The script tag includes the JavaScript code in the PIB_Dynamic.js file, which supplies the

JavaScript code that interacts with the Preview in Browser submenu. This code could be saved

directly in the PIB_Dynamic.htm file, but storing it in a separate file allows multiple commands

to include the same code.