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User interface description

Visual editor

Menu
  • File
    • New - creates a new page
    • Open - opens a page
    • Save - saves the page
    • Save as - saves the page as a different file
    • Revert - discards any changes and loads the last saved version of this page
    • Help - displays this documentation
    • About - displays the About window
    • Close - closes the program
  • Edit
    • Undo/Redo - undoes/redoes the last action
    • Copy - copies current selection
    • Paste - pastes the contents of clipboard at current selection
    • Cut - cuts current selection and puts it in the clipboard
    • Delete all - clears the page
    • Find - displays Finder window
    • Find again - repeats the last find/replace action
    • Preview - opens the page in NetPositive
    • Preferences - program and current page preferences
  • Insert
    • HyperText link/target - inserts HyperText link/target
    • Image - inserts an image
    • Horizontal line - inserts a horizontal line
    • Break line - breaks the line
    • Paragraph - inserts a new paragraph
    • Nonbreakable space - inserts a nonbreakable space character
  • Physical fonts
    • Normal text - inserts normal text
    • Bold text - inserts bold text
    • Italic text - inserts italic text
    • Fixed font - inserts fixed font text
    • Big - inserts big text
    • Small - inserts small text
    • Underlined text - inserts underlining
    • Strike thru text - inserts strike thru text
    • Superscript * - inserts superscript text
    • Subscript * - inserts subscript text
  • Logical fonts
    • Emphasis - inserts emphasis
    • Strong emphasis - inserts strong emphasis
    • Definition - inserts definition
    • Code - inserts code
    • Sample - inserts sample
    • Keyboard input - inserts keyboard input
    • Variable or command - inserts variable or command
    • Cite - inserts cite
  • Headings
    • Heading 1 - inserts heading 1
    • Heading 2 - inserts heading 2
    • Heading 3 - inserts heading 3
    • Heading 4 - inserts heading 4
    • Heading 5 - inserts heading 5
    • Heading 6 - inserts heading 6
  • HTML editor
    • Show in HTML editor - displays the page in the internal HTML editor
    • Update from HTML - updates the data in the Visual editor from the internal HTML editor
    • Show in external HTML editor - displays the page in your prefered external HTML editor. To update the page from the external HTML editor save the page there. InSite Designer will update the page from the external editor.
    • Show errors/warnings window - displays Errie, the error/warning window


HTML editor

Menu
  • File
    • New - creates a new page
    • Open - opens a page
    • Save - saves the content of the HTML editor
    • Save as - saves the page as a different file
    • Revert - discards any changes and loads the last saved version of this page
    • Help - displays this documentation
    • About - displays the About window
    • Close - closes the program
  • Edit
    • Undo/Redo - undoes/redoes last action
    • Copy - copies current selection
    • Paste - pastes the contents of clipboard at current selection
    • Cut - cuts current selection and puts it in the clipboard
    • Find - displays Finder window
    • Find again - repeats the last find/replace action
    • Preview - previews the page in NetPositive
    • Preferences - here you set the program and page settings
    • Show HTML palette - displays HTML elements palette
  • Visual editor
    • Show Visual editor - displays the Visual editor
    • Update from Visual - updates the data in the HTML editor from the Visual editor
    • Show errors warnings window - displays Errie, the error/warning window

Preferences window

Edit - Preferences
  • Page settings card
    • Title - title of the current page
    • Background image path - path to the background image file
    • Text color - color of the text on the current page
    • Link color - color of links on the current page
    • Background color - color of the background of the current page
  • Program settings card
    • Author (used when signing your pages) - enter your name here, it will be used for signing your pages (<META NAME="Author" ...> TAG)
    • External text editor - here you set the path to your prefered external HTML editor; it will be used when you click HTML editor - show in external HTML editor. The data is exchanged via a file specially created for this purpose. When you click HTML editor - Show in external HTML editor, InSite Designer saves the page to this file and opens your prefered HTML editor and tells it to open the file for you. However, some editors do not reload the file from disk if the file is already open. If this is the case, you'll have to reload it manually. When you want to import your page back to InSite Designer, just save it in the external HTML editor. InSite Designer will update it from the exchange file.
    • Proportional and Fixed fonts and their sizes - you can set the fonts which InSite Designer will use; you should set them according to your browser settings
  • About card - it's the same as the About window. Both test if your JPEG and GIF Translators are working properly.

TAG settings window

To open it right-click on a HyperText link/target or on an image. It differs according to which of these you have clicked.
  • TAG settings window for a HyperText link/target
    • Link to - here you can enter the target where the link leads to
    • Link target name - if you want to create a link target, you enter its name here. One object can be both a link and a target.
  • TAG settings window for an image
    • Alternate text - here you can set or change the alternate text for the image

Finder Window

Edit - Find... or <ALT+F>
  • 'Find' text box - enter the searched text here
  • 'Replace' text box - enter the text you wish to have the searched text replaced with
  • 'Find' button - starts searching for the expression in the Find text box from the begining of the file and stops when it finds it
  • 'Replace' button - starts searching for the expression in the Find text box from the begining of the file and if it finds it, the searched expression is replaced by the content of the Replace text box
  • 'Replace all' button - performs the replace action on the whole file (the Replace button only does the first occurance)
  • Case sensitive - controls if the searching will be case sensitive or not
  • Whole word - if this is not checked, Finder will "find" words CONTAINING the searched text e.g. for "alt", it will find "alternate"
  • Wrap - normally, when the search reaches the end of the file, it stops. However, if this is checked, it will start from the begining again
Find again(<ALT+G> or Edit - Find again) repeats the last find/replace action - after Find, finds again, after Replace, finds and replaces again

HTML elements palette

Edit - Show HTML palette or <ALT+P> in the HTML editor
  • 'HTML elements' list - ordered list of HTML 4 elements
  • 'Attributes' list - list of valid attributes for the currently selected element in the HTML elements list
  • 'Value' box - here you set the value for the currently selected attribute in the Attributes list. If the attribute has a limited range of possible values the value can be picked from the pop-down menu otherwise you can type the value in the text box. Pressing enter inserts the attribute with the value in the Preview box, another enter inserts the whole HTML element previewed in the Preview box in the HTML editor at the current position
  • 'Preview' box - editable text box where you can see and tune the currently edited HTML element