First and Foremost!
This package is meant as Shareware. Meaning that when you find this program
useful, you ARE morally obliged to send a US$ 15 contribution to the author.
I know I have no way of making you pay these 15 bucks I ask for the program.
However, take heed! If nobody sends in a contribution, I *will* assume that
nobody uses the program and therefore I cease all efforts to upgrade and/or
support this program. Furthermore, I will probably go commercial with other
programs. You will have to pay a lot more then, and you will have no way of
testing it out before you pay. Finally, remember this saying:
'It is better to give than to receive!'
(I've given you this program, so now it's you turn, isn't it?)
Enjoy the programs!
HTML-Heaven is a suite of four programs intended to interface with any editor
supporting ARexx commands. It's purpose is it to make creating and maintaining
HTML documents easy by offering easy access to the HTML commands. The suite is
not WYSIWYG because the Amiga is a true multi-tasking computer and it's only a
question of a couple of mouseclicks to save the HTML document in the editor and
reload it into say AMosaic, ALynx or WebLink for WYSIWIG viewing. The philosphy
behind that is this way all the users are free to use their own favorite browser
instead of having to use the one provided. Which is why HTML-Heaven interfaces
with most Amiga text editors instead of using a built-in one. To facilitate the
creation of HTML pages the suite consists of four different programs that can
be used in any combination or just on their own. Just pick the one(s) that you
like best and feel comfortable with.
- HTML-Genie
- This program open a horizontal window containing 6 listview
gadgets. Which contain the commonly used HTML commands. Just
selecting the command you want will make HTML-Genie transfer
it to your texteditor.
- HTML-Helper
- This program opens a horizontal window containing seven rows of
four buttons. Allowing you easy point and click access to the
most commonly used HTML commands. This program is intented as a
replacement for HTML-Genie for those users who dislike the list-
view interface in that program.
- HTML-Wizard
- This program opens a horizontal window containing six cycle
gadgets. Which contain the commonly used HTML commands. Just
selecting the command you want will make HTML-Wizard transfer
it to your texteditor. This program is intended for those who
have the CycleToMenu commodity running. As this program will
only then reach it's full functionality.
- ToolKit
- This last program opens a vertical window containing two listview
gadgets. The top one contains all the HTML commands also present
in HTML-Genie, the bottom one allows registered users to enter
their own custom commands. These are read from a configuration
file when ToolKit is started.
All four programs are font-sensitive and will use the default screen font.
Providing this would not cause their window to exceed the screen size. In
which case they revert to the Topaz 8 system font. All HTML-commands are also
present in the menu. So demanding users can iconify the program and then
access the HTML-commands from the menu while the program is iconified. The
communication with the user's text editor is done via an ARexx script. This
makes supporting other editors very easy and allows the user very high
flexibility with regards to exactly what is transmitted to the editor. Some
sample scripts are included in the package. The menu layout of all four
programs is identical, making it easy on the user to find all the commands
located in the menu. Furthermore the user can define if all the commands
should be in one menu (distributed in submenu's) or if every HTML category
is to be given it's own menu. This can be done via the appropriate 'MENU='
Tooltype/CLI parameter.
For registered users the programs offer a number of other useful features.
- On-line help for the HTML commands. Just enable the Help item in the menu
and select a command. Instead of sending the command to the editor, the
program will display a requester with the command and a short text on the
HTML command.
- ToolTypes/CLI parameters to customize the programs. Included is support
for different fonts, sizes, position to open the window, position of the
iconified window and the public screen to open up on.
- Removal of the 'Reminder' requester that pops up when you end any of the
programs in the HTML-Heaven suite.
- Full and unlimited access to the Arexx Hosts contained in the programs.
- The suite now also allows the user to edit tags that where selected before
these are sent on to the text-editor. To use this feature, the user should
select the 'Edit Tag' item in the menu. As this is a toggle item, selecting
it again will trun the 'Edit tag' option off. Hitting the 'Enter' key in the
string gadget or clicking the Ok gadget will send the edited tag to the text
editor. Clicking the Cancel gadget will send the original tag instead. Note,
the 'Edit Tag' option is not valid for HTML-Wizard at this moment.
The unregistered version is fully functional, apart from the above four
features. But judging from past experience, some people need an incentive
to get them to register a program. Even if it's only US$ 15.- to do so.
And I put a lot of time and effort in the creation of this suite. Although
I don't expect to become rich from it, I do hope it will bring me back
some monetary reward.
For more info about the HTML language please read the accompagnying HTML
Intro AmigaGuide(tm) document. This is the official NCSA HTML primer that
I converted from HTML to AmigaGuide format. It contains all the information
that one needs to get started. It's by no means a complete reference work
on the HTML language though. As that language is still evolving. You can
find a host of information on HTML on the World Wide Web.
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Page created using HTML-Heaven. �1994 by Paul Kolenbrander (paul@serena.iaehv.nl)