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Program READ ME
In This Document
-Using the Toolbar
-How to Create a Frame
-Modifying Frame Attributes
-Modifying Document Attributes
-Menu Information
-Special Keyboard Commands
-Preferences Information
Section 1 Using the Toolbar
The Toolbar is composed of 4 buttons, a drawing tool, a resize tool, a
delete tool and a select tool. To use a tool simply click on. You should
notice that the tool currently in use is highlighted in yellow.
The Drawing Tool.
The Drawing Tool is used to create new frames.To do this go to the
border of an existing frame(this will be the border of the document for the
first click). You will notice a change in the cursor. The direction of the
cursor determines where the line will be drawn. A line is drawn from wherever
you click to the edge of the frame that the line is in. It is NOT always drawn
from one side of the screen to the other. By double clicking in a frame with
the drawing tool you are able to bring up a dialog box that will allow you to
change the frame attributes.
The Resize Tool.
The Resize Tool is used to resize existing frames. Just click and drag
from the border of a frame and you will note a change in the size of that
frame. Other nearby frames will resize also to accommodate the change. This
tool will not allow you to cross frame boundaries.
The Delete Tool.
Double click in a frame to delete it. This will not work on the top
frame. Do NOT double click on lines trying to delete them. It simply will
not work and will just get you irritated.
The Selection Tool.
This tool is used solely for selecting and modifying frames. It is
especially for close work where the drawing tool is too busy drawing new frames
to bring up a frame attributes dialog box.
Section 2 Creating a frame
To create a frame simply click using the drawing tool on the border of an
existing frame.(for the top frame this will be the document border) This will
result in two new frames in the place of the previous one. Information from
that frame will be stored in either the bottom most or right most frame. When
the page is exported, a frame supporting browser will show the page exactly as
it appears in FrameWork saving you the effort of writing out all the source
code by hand which is complicated and time consuming.
Section 3 Frame Attributes
A frame has several attributes attached to it such as frame source and
name. To select the source you may either type in the name or select choose to
choose an existing file. The name attribute is used mainly for targeting.(see
FAQ) Simply type in a name for your frame. A frame has three possible
scrolling attributes, yes, no and auto. What these refer to are weather or no
scrolling will be allowed in that frame. If yes there will always be scrolling
allowed. If no there will never be scrolling allowed and if auto then
scrolling will be allowed if neccesary to fit the content into the space.
Margin Height and Width control the space between text within a frame and its
border. Please enter a pixel number here. Another option is relative width.
What this means is that any leftover width in the document will be taken up by
this frame. A star will appear for the width of this frame in the exported
source code.
Section 4 Document Settings/Attributes
Every HTML document has a title. Documents created with FrameWork will
default to having nothing within the Title tags in the header. By entering a
title a given page will be given that title.
Frame Spacing and Frame Border are both Microsoft Internet Explorer tags.
They are not currently supported by Mozzilla 2.0. The frame spacing tag allows
more room between frames themselves. The frame border attribute allows the
browser not to display the line border between frames.
Section 5 Menu Options/Commands
Apple Menu:
Please Feel Free to find out about the programmers in the about menu.
File Menu:
New - Create a new FrameWork page. This will bring up a new blank
document to create with.
Open - Open a saved FrameWork format page. Saved pages retain all
information attached to the document, not just the frame positions.
Close - Close a currently open document
Save - Save a file to FrameWork format. This is a good way to keep a
template.
Save As - Similar to save except will save under a different name
rather than updating the current file.
Export HTML - This is what makes this program infinitely stellar. The
pages that you have just created on the screen will be exported to
HTML source code viewable by any frame friendly browser. Try
making the most complicated of patterns and exporting them. The
code gets very complex. No human could design these pages so
easily.
Preferences - See About Preferences.
Edit Menu:
Cut - Removes a current frame and copies its attributes to an internal
non-exportable clipboard
Copy - Copies the attributes of a selected frame to the internal
clipboard
Paste - Takes whatever attributes are in the clipboard and places them
in a selected frame
Clear - deletes a frame
Options Menu:
Document Settings - Brings up Document Settings Dialog. See above for
info about Document Settings
Frame Settings- Brings up Frame Attributes Dialog. See above for frame
settings.
Toggle Window Width - Changes document from Mac to IBM window width
Tools. Select Tool via menu or button
Section 6 Keyboard Commands
Tab - cycle through selecting frames
Return - bring up frame info dialog on selected frame
Delete - delete selected frame
See Menu for Specific Command Key Information
Section 7 Preferences
Preferences options are more for your personal choice than anything. The
Standard grey background color and grey lines can be changed to whatever colour
you would like by pressing the appropriate button and choosing a color. In
addition the exported files can take the form of any application on your
computer. One can export to a text editor or browser of choice to open that
particular application upon double clicking the exported document. The
exported document can also be based upon percentages or pixels. Percentages
refer to percent of total window size. Pixels are actualy pixel size scaled to
fit the window.
for additional documentation please see http://www.cec.wustl.edu/~pm1/Framework/