Writing an extension

Dear Friends,
I want to write an extension for Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 and
also add an autocompletion-feature.
Is there a good tutorial for adding autocompletion?
I only want to know how to create a popup with custom listed
textual content
when the user begins typing an unfinished function name.
I know that I can add custom function names and keywords
manually to Dreamweaver.
But in this case the extension I want to write should handle
that, because those function names are dynamic.
Thank you for your help and support!
With best regards

InnoRex,
There are API calls for you to dynamically add functions to
the ones
recognized by the Code Hints engine. Take a look here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_API_Ref/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d117f9e09bcf- 7ed2.html
This reference is for DW CS4, but (I think) those calls are
supported
back to DW MX.
HTH,
Randy
> I want to write an extension for Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
and also add an
> autocompletion-feature.
>
> Is there a good tutorial for adding autocompletion?
> I only want to know how to create a popup with custom
listed textual content
> when the user begins typing an unfinished function name.
>
> I know that I can add custom function names and keywords
manually to
> Dreamweaver.
> But in this case the extension I want to write should
handle that, because
> those function names are dynamic.

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