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82 Chapter 5: Customizing Code View
Container
The menu tag.
Example
<menuitem label="CONTENT_TYPE" value="&quot;CONTENT_TYPE&quot;)" icon="shared/
mm/images/hintMisc.gif" />
<function>
Description
This tag replaces the menu tag for specifying function arguments and object methods for a Code
Hints pop-up menu. When you type a function or method name in Code View, Dreamweaver
opens a menu of function prototypes, displaying the current argument in bold. Each time you
type a comma, Dreamweaver updates the menu to display the next argument in bold. For
example, if you typed the function name
ArrayAppend in a Coldfusion document, the Code
Hints menu would display
ArrayAppend(array, value). After you type the comma following
array, the menu updates to show ArrayAppend(array, value).
For object methods, when you type the object name, Dreamweaver opens a menu of the methods
that are defined for that object.
The set of recognized functions is stored in the Dreamweaver Configuration/CodeHints.xml file.
Attributes
pattern, doctypes, casesensitive
• The pattern attribute specifies the name of the function and its argument list. For methods,
the pattern attribute describes the name of the object, the name of the method, and the
method’s arguments. For a function name, the Code Hints menu appears when the user types
functionname(. The menu shows the list of arguments for the function. For an object
method, the Code Hints menu appears when the user types
objectname. (including the
period). This menu shows the methods that have been specified for the object. After that, the
Code Hints menu opens a list of the arguments for the method in the same way it does for
a function.
• The doctypes attribute specifies that the menu is active only for the specified document types.
This attribute lets you specify different lists of function names for ASP-JavaScript (ASP-JS),
Java Server Pages (JSP), Macromedia ColdFusion, and so on. You can specify the
doctypes
attribute as a comma-separated list of document type IDs. For a list of Dreamweaver document
types, see the Dreamweaver Configuration/Documenttypes/MMDocumentTypes.xml file.
• The casesensitive attribute specifies whether the pattern is case-sensitive. The possible
values for the
casesensitive attribute are true, false, or a subset of the comma-separated
list that you specify for the doctypes attribute. The list of document types lets you specify that
the pattern is case-sensitive for some document types but not for others. The value defaults to
false if you omit this attribute. If the casesensitive attribute is a value of true, the Code
Hints menu appears only if the text that the user types exactly matches the pattern that the
pattern attribute specifies. If the
casesensitive attribute is a value of false, the menu
appears even if the pattern is lowercase and the text is uppercase.
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