Design-time stylesheets...

Design-time stylesheets allow you to see what your included
element will
really look like, while you're working.
However, the stylesheet is forgotten if you hit F12 to
preview. What's
displayed has no styles associated with it.
Is there any way to tell DW to remember the design-time
stylesheet during
the F12 preview, so that you not only see correctly when
editing, but also
when previewing that same file?

Reese wrote:
> Design-time stylesheets allow you to see what your
included element will
> really look like, while you're working.
>
> However, the stylesheet is forgotten if you hit F12 to
preview. What's
> displayed has no styles associated with it.
>
> Is there any way to tell DW to remember the design-time
stylesheet during
> the F12 preview, so that you not only see correctly when
editing, but also
> when previewing that same file?
No.
If you want styles to be part of your page when you preview
it, then you need to have styles on the page, or linked to it in
some fashion. Design time style sheets are meant to cover for you
when you're creating files that will pull in their styles through
other means, and those styles are not available during the design
of the page. If the styles were available already, then you could
have just linked directly to the css file rather than using a
design time style sheet. Or, perhaps your styles are to be
dynamically generated styles within the page, or you're linking to
css files that are generated based upon query string parameters.
Danilo Celic
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Ver 4: Still no support for Includes or Design Time Stylesheets?

Wow...well, without either of these I can't make use of this
product. I guess I'm confused at what types of users this product
may be marketed toward, although with the amount of focus put on
Blogs and Blogging and lack of focus on requests already made in
this forum for some time I'm getting a better idea. Hey, if they
want to "dumb this down" and make it a price point product that
purposely sits lower on the totem pole than Dreamweaver, then I
think that ought to be made more clear in the marketing materials.
I guess what's frustrating is that it's touted that it "uses the
Dreamweaver HTML Engine" but can't implement a feature like Design
Time Stylesheets? Would this put it too close to Dreamweaver in the
product line? I certainly don't think so but if it did implement
such a feature it would increase the demographic that could make
use of such a great product as many users are not going to rewrite
Includes OUT of their existing sites just to be able to use it.
Most intermediate to advanced designers will almost always,
and have been taught, to use includes to minimize page changes in
multiple places...it's such a common thing to do. But unless an
included page can be edited inline I have no way to turn my users
loose with this app. It seems reasonable to implement Design Time
Stylesheets like Dreamweaver does in which case, the users could
edit the included page directly and at least see it like it should
look with formatting which they can't do now because of the lack of
an applied stylesheet when opening the include file directly.
Do they expect that once we've written a site using includes
we should have our content providers use Dreamweaver? I don't know
about the rest of you but that's asking for a heck of a lot of
trouble turning non-designer/developers loose with
Dreamweaver...even using Templates.
Sorry for the rant, I'm just a bit frustrated as I really
need an app that can let me make use of "Content Providers" in our
company. And don't get me wrong, I'm a long time Macromedia/Adobe
supporter...just hoped something would happen with v4 that didn't
and was pretty sure it would based on user input on this and other
forums.
If anyone has ideas on workarounds for this problem I'd love
to hear!
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Hi. I'm going to reopen this thread instead of starting a new
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solve my client's editing woes.
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that's stored in the database for each page. Currently this is what
happens, simplified.
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are pulled out of the database, and can currently be edited within
the CMS by a browser-based WYSWYG editor.
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the task. Contribute seems to be, but I can't figure out how to fit
it into a workflow compatible with this site!
We don't use Dreamweaver and from what I've seen Dreamweaver
templates aren't going to work in this application. It seems that
if you make a change to the template, Dreamweaver has to go and
update all 800 pages that use the template ... ??!? ... if so,
lame.
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the database and making a "database" on the filesystem of files
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may be a "contact us" box or something that's used on 100 pages
throughout the site, so I'm not going to put stuff like that
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include into every snippet, and then pull that out with a regular
expression from EVERY include at runtime whenever I display that
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hack. Please tell me there's a better way...
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Can anyone tell me what type of extension I need, and point me at the right part of the API for creating an extension for CS5 (/CS5.5) to make design-time stylesheets apply to an entire site please?
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Paul,
Yes, those documents and books about Extensions for DW8 are
still very
relevant. The only that has changed since then are a few new
APIs.
This is the best Adobe forum for asking questions. Welcome
aboard! :)
Randy
> I want to learn how to write a dreamweaver CS4
extension, but the only
> material I can seem to find that provides step by step
instructions for how to
> start out is for Dreamweaver 8.
>
> I found the API references for CS4 (
>
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Extending/index.html
) but it
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people who already
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areas, and then too
> specific in other areas to start out with.
>
> Are there any forums or newsgroups that are devoted to
helping people when
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for helping people do
> something like "Write your first dreamweaver extension"?
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I'm using PHP templates and dreamweaver wont show my preview
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highlight multiple files and apply them.
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with design-time. Is there a solution to this?

Here's a link to an extension that will allow you to do that:
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?CID=61265
Note that this extension is not free, but it's well worth the
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HTH,
Randy
> I'm using PHP templates and dreamweaver wont show my
preview correctly. Right
> now I have to select each page (one by one) and pick
design time. I have my
> sites defined in DW so you would think I could just set
a designtime stylesheet
> to the whole site or highlight multiple files and apply
them.
>
> However that doestn work. I have to do each page one by
one with design-time.

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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:55:22 +0000 (UTC), "Diodeus"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way to have the editor recognize the
stylesheet globally for the
>project? I don't want to put redundant stylesheet include
statements on every
>include file just to have the editor work properly.
Apply a design-time style sheet. Press F1, in the index,
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*METHOD constructor.
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Edited by: Siong Chao on Jan 3, 2011 4:54 AM
Edited by: Siong Chao on Jan 3, 2011 5:00 AM

Hi,
I couldn't get to your query..
What do you mean by step by step procedure for a design time & process for forms.
if you are a beginner and looking for basic examples to implement adobe forms there are lot of them in SDN, please search them.
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Cheers,
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