User Guide

78 Chapter 5: Customizing Code View

The CodeHints.xml file

The CodeHints.xml file contains the following entities:

• A list of all the menu groups

Dreamweaver displays the list of menu groups when you select the Code Hints category

from the Preferences dialog box. You can open the Preferences dialog box by selecting

Edit > Preferences. Dreamweaver MX provides the following menu groups or types of Code

Hints menus: Tag Names, Attribute Names, Attribute Values, Function Arguments, Object

Methods and Variables, and HTML Entities.

• The description for each menu group

The description appears in the Preferences dialog box for the Code Hints category when you

select the menu group in the list. The description for the selected entry appears below the

menu group list.

• Code Hints menus

A menu consists of a pattern that triggers the Code Hints menu and a list of menu items. For

example, a pattern such as "

&" could trigger a menu such as "&", ">", "<".

The following example shows the format of the CodeHints.xml file:

<![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>

</menugroup>

<![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>

<function pattern="ArraySort(array, sort_type, sort_order)"

doctypes="CFML"/>

<function pattern="Response.addCookie(Cookie cookie)"

doctypes="JSP"/>

</menugroup>