Viewing in design mode.

After upgrading to DW 10 CS4, some of my files created with
DW 2004 MX will not fully display in design mode. The background is
there with a heading image (American Flag) but the rest of the
content is missing. It shows fine in "Live View" mode but not in
"Split" or "Design" mode.

That usually suggests some invalid code in your page.
Validate the page
here:
http://validator.w3.org/
fix any errors and then try again with CS4.
Walt
"sbrown88" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gkigkc$iia$[email protected]..
> After upgrading to DW 10 CS4, some of my files created
with DW 2004 MX
> will not
> fully display in design mode. The background is there
with a heading image
> (American Flag) but the rest of the content is missing.
It shows fine in
> "Live
> View" mode but not in "Split" or "Design" mode.
>

Similar Messages

Dropdown Style Design Mode Preview

RH9
After creating a Drop Down Hotspot style to incorporate "twisties", the applied style does not show in Design Mode. It works as expected when previewed and published, but it would be nice to be able to tell that something is there when editing the topic.
There appears to be 3 ways to tell that the style was applied when viewing in Design Mode.
Cursor changes when hovered over the text (2 dots)
Text shows with shading behind it (This is not always the case, and I cant tell what I did to make it show or not)
Can use View>Show>Tag List
Although these are "OK", its not a definite visual that can be identified easily. My preference, if I could have one, is for Design mode to show the Arrow graphic I used in the Style.
Any guidance with my concern would be greatly appreciated.

Suggestions can always be entered here: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
it's the only place where they get noticed officially by Adobe

Why is the character style for hyperlinks not displaying correctly in design mode/viewing/output?

I am using RH9 and generating WebHelp, and I needed to globally bump up the font size of just my hyperlinked text. I went into my Style Sheet > Character tab, changed the font size of the various character settings for hyperlinks, and clicked Apply and then OK. Normally, this would change all of my hyperlink text font sizes immediately across all of my topics. However, this time, it made no changes to any existing hyperlinked text, and it only affected new hyperlinks that I subsequently added. For the existing hyperlinks, I can only manually change the font size of the each hyperlink one at a time, but that's crazy (there's 100's in this help).
I can successfully change other characters styles and paragraph styles. This issue only affects the hyperlink character styles. It also shows up in all RH modes - Design mode, viewing, and in the final output.
Is this an indication of a corrupted style sheet or some other combination of events that I have yet to discover?

Hi,
You probably have inline styling in your project overwriting the font size of your style sheet. How are you changing the font size of the individual hyperlinks?
There is a workaround for inline styling: Open your CSS in notepad and add !important after the font-size:
font-size: 4pt !important;
Note that this is a workaround, not a solution. As a solutions you can remove all the style attributes from your hyperlinks to force them to take the CSS styling again.
Greet,
Willam

Invalid Token while viewing Slide Show Component in Design Mode

Hi Guys,
I am having an issue where my SWF files that appear in a slide show component are displaying an invalid token error while in design mode in Xcelsius. When I export the SWF file to Infoview, this error flashes on the screen for a second before the logon token is passed and the child SWF is loaded.
I am trying to find a way to solve my issue so the invalid token error message does not appear and therefore does not get flashed to the user before the file actually loads.
I downloaded Fix Pack 1 for SP3 because there was a line in the fixed issues detailing:
"An Invalid logon token message appeared in Infoview when you viewed Flash objects (SWF files) that contain a QaaWS or Live Office connection."
"This issue has been resolved".
It is still happening even with FP 1 installed.
Has anyone ever encountered this issue before and found a solution for it.
Thanks in advance!!
- Anthony

Ok, I found out it has definitively something to do with the "Design mode could not load swiz-framework-1.0.0-RC1.swc. It may be incompatible with this SDK, or invalid. (DesignAssetLoader.CompleteTimeout)" warning. This somehow affects the loading of the mx:Image.
Recompiling the SWC might work with the swiz swc, but there are more swc's giving this error like the google maps swc which does not have the source avalable freely.
This is a real pain as I like to use a mockup image in Design Mode to place components exactly as provided by the design team.

Style changes show in Design mode but not in Live View or online.

I'm using CS5. I modified a style sheet and the changes showed up in Design mode just the way I wanted them. I switched to Live View and they did not show up. I put the new style sheet on the server and it the changes do not show up online. The basic change was to add a border around some text that serves as a link to another page in the site. The source code can be viewed here: The Akshaya Home | Akshaya USA. The relavent lines are 71 and 72 at the bottom of the banner div. The CSS code is:
.button_donate{
          font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
          font-size: 24px;
          padding: 0px 8px 0px 8px;
          border-top: 3px;
          border-top-style: solid;
          border-top: #1C778C;
          border-left: 3px;
          border-left-style: solid;
          border-left: #1C778C;
          border-bottom: 3px;
          border-bottom-style: solid;
          border-bottom: #0A2B33;
          border-right: 3px;
          border-right-style: solid;
          border-right: #0A2B33;
          position: absolute;
          right: 50px;
          top: 139px;
.button_volunteer{
          font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
          font-size: 24px;
          padding: 0px 8px 0px 8px;
          border-top: 3px;
          border-top-style: solid;
          border-top: #1C778C;
          border-left: 3px;
          border-left-style: solid;
          border-left: #1C778C;
          border-bottom: 3px;
          border-bottom-style: solid;
          border-bottom: #0A2B33;
          border-right: 3px;
          border-right-style: solid;
          border-right: #0A2B33;
          position: absolute;
          left: 40px;
          top: 140px;
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Ed

Try this:
.button_donate {
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 24px;
    padding: 0px 8px 0px 8px;
    border: 3px outset #1C778C;
    position: absolute;
    right: 50px;
    top: 139px;
Repeat with .button_volunteer.
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
http://twitter.com/altweb

Compiling code throws undeclared errors when trying to view form in design mode.

Let me start this off by admitting that I've committed sacrilege - I edited code inside of a windows forms InitializeComponent() function. I changed this (located in the beginning of the InitializeComponent() function where all UI elements are declared):
this->image = gcnew OpenTK::GLControl();
To this:
OpenTK::Graphics::GraphicsMode^ temp = gcnew OpenTK::Graphics::GraphicsMode(ColorFormat(16, 16, 16, 16), 16, 0, 0, ColorFormat(16, 16, 16, 16), 3 , false);
this->image = gcnew OpenTK::GLControl(temp)
The result is that the code still compiles, but it gives the following errors when I try to view the code in design mode:
The variable 'image' is either undeclared or was never assigned.
"The variable 'temp' is either undeclared or was never assigned."
The former can get eliminated by using two constructors, one with no parameters, followed by an immediate override of the image object with my actual constructor. But I can't seem to get rid of the second problem. Declaring the variable temp outside of the
function didn't help, so I'm not sure if or how I can make this work. Any suggestions on how I can make the design mode parser accept my intrusions? I understand that I've done some evil things to make this happen, but I'd like to keep it more or less like
this since the result is that I have a vsynced windows form.

Hi MHoll4,
It seems that it is not the correct forum for this issue.
Since this issue is related to the WinForms app, I suggest you post this issue to the WinForm forums here:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/home?category=windowsforms
Best Regards,
We are trying to better understand customer views on social support experience, so your participation in this interview project would be greatly appreciated if you have time. Thanks for helping make community forums a great place.
Click
HERE to participate the survey.

Viewing Design Mode in CS3

Hi,
I have just designed a website for a client. We agreed that
she would be able to take all the files once completed so she could
edit in her own Dreamweaver CS3. I personally - for my sins - am
still using a very old version of Dreamweaver. I do this because
it's just what i'm used to and feel comfortable with right now.
The problem is that i have developed the site using php
includes (for header, footer, navigation). Now, my client says she
cannot view the site properly in Design Mode to edit the text, etc.
So, i re-jig the site to include template files to make it easy to
view the text to edit. However, she says she needs to be able to
view the whole page (ie with headers, footers, navigation and
editable text) as it would be viewed in real-time.
Is it possible to do this in CS3?
Thanks for any help.

> Is it possible to do this in CS3?
Of course, but perhaps not by your client.
Personally, I would NEVER do what you have.
To see PHP includes, the client would need to have both
includes, and temp
files enabled in the PREFERENCES, and they would need to have
the site
defined as a PHP site, and ideally, they would need to have a
webserver and
PHP installed.
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
http://www.projectseven.com/go
- DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.dwfaq.com - DW FAQs,
Tutorials & Resources
==================
"ystorm" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:g6o3a1$ra6$[email protected]..
> Hi,
>
> I have just designed a website for a client. We agreed
that she would be
> able
> to take all the files once completed so she could edit
in her own
> Dreamweaver
> CS3. I personally - for my sins - am still using a very
old version of
> Dreamweaver. I do this because it's just what i'm used
to and feel
> comfortable
> with right now.
>
> The problem is that i have developed the site using php
includes (for
> header,
> footer, navigation). Now, my client says she cannot view
the site
> properly in
> Design Mode to edit the text, etc. So, i re-jig the site
to include
> template
> files to make it easy to view the text to edit. However,
she says she
> needs to
> be able to view the whole page (ie with headers,
footers, navigation and
> editable text) as it would be viewed in real-time.
>
> Is it possible to do this in CS3?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>

Can we able to view design mode while integrating flex with eclipse

Hi,
I am able to integrating flex builder with eclipse, but failed to get the design mode in that one.
Can anyone please suggest how i can able to ovecome from this issue.
Thanks,
Sri.

Maybe you need the Adobe reader to read PDF files:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html?promoid=BONRM

Text Field location differs on design view and preview mode

I am using Adobe LiveCycle Desginer ES. I am updating forms currently created in Livecycle 6 and 7. I am noticing the text fields are lower on the preview mode than where I have placed them on the design mode. In design mode, they are perfectly in line with the other text. When going to preview they are off anywhere from a couple centimeters to a couple inches. I have started over with new forms and had this same problem.
This issue mostly occurs when I have a text box with a large amount of text and I place text fields over the text boxes. Has anyone had this issue also? If so, is there a solution? This issue never happened in 6 or 7, I am only seeing this issue in the ES version.
Any help would be appreciated. (I am willing to recreate the forms, but that has the same issue also.)

In version 7 there were updates made to the text engine. There were situations where things did not align correctly. To solve this there was an option added to allow you to revert back to the old engine. To do this go into the File/Form Properties/Compatibility then click on the button for the Revert Text Formatting and try your form again.
Note that at some point in time you should update your form to use the new engine and stop using the version 6 of Reader/Acrobat.
Hope that helps
Paul

Can't select anything in design mode

I am new on a large Flex project, and when I go into design mode on one of the mxml files, I can't select anything. The other views work fine. Is there a lock, or something? Below is what it looks like (black mark just hides brand info). Note that there is a red line near the bottom. It is actually selectable, but it doesn't do anything. If I go to Source mode and select a chunk of code, then back to design mode, it does show it as selected.
This in Flex Builder 3, thanks.

Have you tried using the outline view for selection?
Jason San Jose
Software Engineer, Flash Builder

Dreamweaver 8: Java script in Design Mode

Mac OS 10.4.11 Dreamweaver 8
I have a web page with a java script that displays a random picture from a list of images each time you reload the page.
http://www.irises.org
It renders fine when viewed in a browser, but the image does not display when viewed in Dreamweaver Design mode. The random image does not display and lacking the image other things are out of place.
The script that sets up the image array:

The code (further down the page after the all the list elements) that generates the image:
           <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">



</script>
Is there a way to get it to display correctly in the Design mode?
Thanks
<br />
</script>

Is there a way to get it to display correctly in the Design mode?
I don't think so, at least not with this script. What you need is for an image to be displayed on the page by default, and for the javascript to only change the src attribute's value. Something like this -
At the point where you want the image have -
<img src="the_path_to_some_default_image.jpg" id="rotation" />
and in the javascript, change this -
document.write('<img src="'+theImages[whichImage]+'">');
to this -
document.getElementById('rotation').src='theImages[whichImage]';
See if that works....

No Design Mode in Flash Builder 4.7

It took me many hours to figure this out so I thought I would share what I discovered to make it easier on others.
1. Flash Builder 4.7 no longer has Design Mode (being able to design forms graphically). 4.6 was the last version to support it.
2. Adobe will not sell you 4.6 (or 4.5). They only sell 4.7. They suggest you find a retailer who has an old box.
3. Don't bother complaining, the word is "real programmers don't use design mode".
4. I called support yesterday to get some questions answered. I was told the wait time is over 2 hours and I can't leave a callback number. (At least at that time, they only let you leave a callback number for product returns - which I also did.)
I spent over 8 hours on this yesterday at a cost, in terms of lost revenue, of 4 figures. I hope this saves you some time.
Blake

Hi Blake,
In another page (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1056583), Adobe states that it will be possible to download 4.6 in alternative to 4.7, to still have the Design View. However, I have not seen such possibility yet.
I will not say that "real programmers don't use design mode". They do, if it works fine.
However, the Design View was not very useful for mobile projects, if you wanted to create an interface which, at run time, adapts to different screen estates.
It was very good to draw an initial mock-up, but only the simulator (and the device) can say how the app really looks like (if you want to know more, please have a look here: http://aliencoding.com/2013/02/22/adobe-flash-builder-4-7-has-no-design-view-is-it-blasphe my-no-but-the-software-contains-some-other-blasphemous-aspects/).
If you develop for desktop, then I agree the Design View lack is a real drag. I think Adobe should at least lower the price of the program, now that it's been scaled down for (I think) copyright issues (the Design mode relies on Flash professional components that was not donated to Apache).
I love this platform because it really saved my butt in cases of real fast devployment, BUT NOW it lacks support for Windows 8 that PhoneGap has...
Can we say... it is a legacy framework by now?

Flash Builder Design Mode Bug Workaround (!!!)

I've been fighting this annoyance since FB4 came out, and while I still don't think that custom/embedded fonts in design view are fixed by this, I've been able to reproduce this "fix" (workaround) to get design view to show fonts/theme correctly under some very specific circumstances on two separate PCs.
If anyone from Adobe sees this I'd like to know whether this sounds familiar or is possibly logged as a bug already somewhere in JIRA.. if not I could probably do that as long as it won't be a wasted effort.
The problem:
You're using a Halo theme but certain CSS settings (specifically and possibly limited to FONTS) don't work properly in design view even though they work fine in Flash. Essentially this makes design view practically useless since choice of font family, size, and weight can effect component sizing if you aren't hard-coding component sizes (ugh)... ruining your efforts to use design view for UI design if your UI has any level of complexity (or uses absolute positioning at all).
The specific circumstances seem to be:
You're using the Halo theme (you have no special 'skinning' requirements and want Halo defaults w/only CSS customizations)
You've upgraded a Flex 3 project to Flex 4 SDK (not sure if this is needed to reproduce the issue)
Using a regular non-embedded font (embedded fonts still do crap out, but even this 'workaround' doesn't fix that problem)
You're using swc library files such as the Swiz lib, Mate, Flexlib, etc. (I think it's ANY swc, not specific to any one)
This may also only apply when using an "mx only" project (no Spark), since we're using Halo here
The two part fix (as far as I can tell you need BOTH before design view works correctly):
In .actionScriptProperties, add the following bolded line after the compiler tag like so:
</compiler>
<theme themeIsDefault="false" themeIsSDK="true" themeLocation="${SDK_THEMES_DIR}/frameworks/themes/Halo"/>
<applications>
(I think this may only apply to 'upgraded' projects, as the line does seem to be present in newly created FB4 Halo projects. My guess is that an "upgraded" project should have such a line added, but doesn't get it due to an oversight/bug.)
The somewhat painful, and definitely odd part. Remove all your SWC library files from /libs. Grab the source code for the libraries and drop them into your project's /src folder as if you'd written them yourself. (This may require some research and knowledge on special requirements to build the libs, such as with Swiz's compiler metadata compiler settings which you need to put into your project's settings.) After you get things set up right and the project compiles again, doing a refresh of design view should finally give you proper looking Halo controls and fonts so they look identical to the Flash runtime view.
Why this works, I've no idea. I suspect it has something to do with that stupid and annoying (and supposedly 'harmless') design mode warning message you get when you include a library like Swiz or Mate in your project. (Design mode could not load xxxxxxxxxxxxx.swc. It may be incompatible with this SDK, or invalid. (DesignAssetLoader.CompleteTimeout)) - this warning doesn't break your application, people seem to think it's just a harmless warning..but is it breaking design view?
If anyone has any idea what's going on here, why this 'fixes' the problem (a better work around), or has any other insight I'd love to hear it. The combo of needing to do two things (in my specific case) to fix the problem really made this a ROYAL PAIN, I still can't believe I found it.

Hi Fernando, sorry for the delayed response. CSS Design Mode is not available for Flex 4 projects, but it is still available in Flex 3 projects. The reason for this is that designing components in Flex 4 is often a lot different, since it relies highly on the new spark skinning architecture. There is, however, an Appearance panel available in design view which supplies a set of the main inheriting styles. Setting these styles in the Appearance panel will result in assigning values to a global style selector.
I hope this helps,
Rob

Unable to open jsp file in Design mode

Hi,
I am unable to open jsp files in design mode, I am using eclipse Version: 3.6.1.
Please help.
Regards,
Ale Hasan

Hi Ale,
Thank you for the additional information. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be anything unusual about your project based on your description. I'm surprised you don't see any processes listed in the process view while waiting for the page to open. I thought you might see something related to a queue manager job to "Manage Resource Event Jobs".
Are there any messages in the error.log? You can open a view to the error log from the menu option, "Window -> Show View -> Error Log". I'm curious if there are any messages about a process timing out, unable to reset some object within a certain time, or any exceptions logged.
If you change to another workspace with just a single JSF web project containing a smaller number of JSP, do you experience the same behavior?
Can you also try using a more recent release of OEPE to see if that helps? The 11.1.1.6.1 release is about a year old.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/eclipse/downloads/index.html
Kind regards,
Carlin

How to edit text in design mode - i.e get an I cursor instead of arrow

DW CS6 This is a very basic unclear on concept question. I normally work in code view and have no problems. Sometimes there is a large block of text within a paragraph which is in a div.
I would like to correct a simple typo or insert some more text directly from the design mode display. However, almost all the time, when I click on the spot I want to modify, the cursor remains an arrow and the entire div gets a yellow border. I still have the select arrow, not the vertical bar I need to edit.
Sometimes I seem to stumble onto the right set of clicks and get the edit bar.
Thanks for any suggestions.

Design View can get pretty cranky when your code has errors.
Check the validator at http://validator.w3.org and make sure you're working with clean code before resorting to wiping preferences, config folders or reinstalling.
If your code is clean and it's still not allowing you to click your text in Design View, you may have a z-indexing issue. I notice on pages that use a lot of positioning (APDivs) you can accidentally cover up your text boxes with blank/transparent areas of other elements and cause problems when trying to access that text at a later date.
It's all guesswork though without seeing your actual page.
Could you post a link?

Viewing in design mode.

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for