Can I assign the Alt key to snippets with this method? I really really want to use the alt+3 for ##. I have a series of snippets mapped to alt keystrokes. Not being able to assign the snippets to the keyboard shortcuts I use in studio is one of the main reasons that I have not moved to DW. And I WILL NOT until this is fixed. Yes, I know that I could learn new shortcuts but, my big meaty hands hurt trying to contort to use ctrl+shift+3 for ##.
Mark W. Breneman -Macromedia Certified ColdFusion Developer -Network / Web Server Administrator Vivid Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vividmedia.com 608.270.9770 -----Original Message----- From: DURETTE, STEVEN J (AIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 7:50 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: How to add shortcuts to snippets in DW MX Massimo, Since you seem to know a lot about some pretty complicated issues in dreamweaver maybe you can provide an answer. Do you know of any way to add the Ctrl-M feature of CFStudio and Homesite (when in a tag, jump to it's closing tag)? I have to review and maintain a LOT of code created by contractors and this feature is critical. It's the only reason why I haven't moved to dreamweaver mx (it's installed, just not used). I'm using homesite+ instead. Thanks, Steve -----Original Message----- From: Massimo, Tiziana e Federica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 10:37 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: How to add shortcuts to snippets in DW MX I know many people complain about this, so, since I tried to cover the issue in the past, I summarized everything in a single post. I hope it could be help to fellow developers. Please be free to share this everywhere and post it on blogs as you see fit (if possible include the whole post, no editing please) Adding keyboard shortcuts to snippets is possible with DW MX as well, it's just a painful process... Here it is: 1) Go in Design View (in order to enable the History Panel) 2) Insert a Snippet 3) Now inside the History Panel you should have an entry for the snippets insertion 4) Select the entry in the panel and, from the contextual menu, choose "Copy Steps" 5) Open an external text editor (Notepad would be fine) and paste 6) Inside the text editor you should now see the API call to the snippet, something like this: dw.snippetPalette.insertSnippet('MyFolder\\MySnippet.csn'); 7) Quit DW 8) Open the monster menus.xml file inside you local configuration, typically: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX\Configuration\Menus\Menus.xml For more details read: http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/ts/documents/multiuser.htm 9) At the very top of the monster menus.xml you can find many entries for keyboard shortcuts, add something along these lines: <shortcut key="your key combination here" command="dw.snippetPalette.insertSnippet('MyFolder\\MySnippet.csn')" name="My powerful snippet" id="anUniqueID" /> 10) Restart DW, you are done Final notes: - Be careful editing menus.xml, never open it in DW! - Always back up the menus file, DW does it automatically (see Menus.xbk) - Be careful identifying keyboard combination not already in use - Each id inside menus.xml must be unique, valid JavaScript variable name My considerations: Q: Is it worth? A: It depends, for me it isn't, but I am definitely a mouse user Q: Is it a painstaking process? A: Yes, it is Q: Shouldn't be easier? A: Yes, sure, anything is better than this Q: Shouldn't DW expose this capability from a GUI? A: Sure, I vote for it! Q: What we can do? A: Ask MM, send them hundreds of requests: http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform/ ---------------------------- Massimo Foti Certified Dreamweaver MX Developer Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer http://www.massimocorner.com/ ---------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
