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3. _C_h_a_n_g_e_s__a_n_d__A_d_d_i_t_i_o_n_s
Cosmo Create encompasses the functionality of the previously
released WebMagic application. This chapter lists the major
changes and additions available in Cosmo Create that were
not in the last release of WebMagic.
3.1 _M_a_j_o_r__N_e_w__F_e_a_t_u_r_e_s
+o Port to 6.2 - You must have installed at least Irix 6.2
to install Cosmo Create.
+o Cosmo Create no longer requires a license to run.
+o Tables - Tables are now shown WYSIWYG. Tables will be
displayed very similarly to how they look in Netscape
Navigator, you can create tables, edit their contents,
change their attributes, etc. See Chapter 5 for
limitations.
+o Cosmo Create supports the creation and editing of
frames.
+o Cosmo Create now allows the viewing and editing of the
raw HTML source. Edits can be fed back into the main
document and previewed directly in a web browser.
+o Helper Applications - You can launch Photoshop, Cosmo
Worlds, Image Works, xv or enhance on the appropriate
element (an image or a VRML plug-in, for example) from
the Editors palette if you have these applications
installed on your system. If the currently selected
inline is editable by the helper app, it will ungrey
and be active. When the out of place edits of the
inline data are finished, the inline area in page will
update to reflect the changes. For applications with
the appropriate conversion rules, you can launch the
out of place editor on the original content, and when
the edit completes, the data will be auto converted
back into the web-compatible format inlined into the
page. The conversion rules are specified in the
Converting panel of the Preferences panel. Also, if
the appropriate prototype file is installed on the
system for a particular editor and converter, you can
launch it on an empty inline area to create content for
the inline area.
+o Showcase - Showcase is now available as a helper
application. A Showcase file can be drag-and-dropped
onto a page, and it will be converted into a gif and
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displayed as an inline image. If the image is
highlighted on the page, then Showcase will be
available in the Editors palette as a helper
application. Launching Showcase on the inlined file
will allow you to edit the original Showcase document.
When the Showcase document is saved, the inline gif
will be updated to represent the new state of the
Showcase file.
NNNNooootttteeee:::: The Showcase-to-gif converter requires that
either Ghostscript and eoe.sw.imagetools, or
Impressario _p_s_r_i_p be installed on the machine.
Impressario is preferred because it produces higher
quality output.
+o Button creation tool - Button Magic lets you create
nicely rendered, antialiased images of buttons with 2D
or 3D text labels for use as buttons, bullets, or
titles. An alpha channel is used so that the buttons
blend correctly with the background. You can choose
among various shapes and fonts, and you can alter the
appearance of any button in endless combinations by
choosing lighting effects, colors, and textures.
+o Run Once - Cosmo Create uses so called "run-once with
multiple documents" behavior. If Cosmo Create is
already running on the system, attempts to run
additional copies of the program will simply open a new
editing window in the original program. If you
explicitly need to have multiple copies of Cosmo Create
running, you can specify "-runmany" as a command-line
argument. See the cosmocreate(1) man page for details.
+o 24-bit Imaging - Cosmo Create now defaults to using a
24-bit visual for high quality color and image display.
If a 24-bit visual is not available on the system, the
default system visual is used.
+o A Perl CGI script can be generated from the FORM
dialog. This script contains the basic boilerplate for
a CGI script and lists the form variables and values.
+o Sweeping out and interactively resizing inlines - You
can drag out image, applet, plug-in, and whitespace
regions. After dragging out, the inline will be
selected and the editor dialog will pop up. At any
point, you can interactively resize any of these inline
objects. Holding down the Shift key will constrain
their aspect ratios.
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+o Improved inline attributes editor - The user can enter
an original, rich representation for an inline (such as
an rgb file), and have a web-compatible stand-in (such
as a gif) generated automatically for it. The stand-in
type can be selected from the popup menu displaying all
the known conversions. To disable the writing out of
width and height tags, there is a new unit type called
Unset that effectively unconstrains that dimension and
suppresses the tag on output. This unset unit type can
also be used to reset the image to its default size, or
the Default button can be used.
+o Live plug-ins - Plug-ins display live just as they
would in Netscape, including full page plug-ins (for
Netscape 2.x). However, full plug-in functionality is
not yet available, and so certain plug-ins may behave
poorly in Cosmo Create if the plug-ins are not written
carefully. Live Applets are not viewable. See Chapter
5 for more information.
+o Spell checking - Cosmo Create now offers you the
ability to spell check your documents, in a number of
languages.
+o Floating Tools - Tools can now be left floating on the
desktop after use and will continue to track the
insertion point and current selection.
+o File type rules - The FTR database is now used rather
than globbing to determine the type of files
imported/drag-n-dropped into Cosmo Create. Also, a new
panel on the attributes dialog allows you to specify
what to do with each filetype, i.e. whether it should
be linked or inlined as an image, applet, or plug-in.
+o Link generation commands - The URL for a link can now
be generated by an external UNIX command.
3.2 _H_T_M_L__t_a_g_s__a_n_d__W_Y_S_I_W_Y_G_-_n_e_s_s
+o Cosmo Create now supports the HTML tags FONT COLOR and
NBSP (non-breaking space). Also supported are the
EMBED and APPLET tags.
+o Named HTML colors are now supported in addition to RGB
colors.
+o The TARGET link attribute is now supported.
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+o Plain FORM Button - INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" is now
supported by the Form Tool.
+o Textarea Wrapping - The TEXTAREA WRAP attribute is now
supported by the Form Tool.
+o Improved Alignment - LEFT and RIGHT aligned images are
now shown WYSIWYG. Inlines can now be aligned TEXTTOP,
ABSMIDDLE and ABSBOTTOM in addition to the normal
alignment parameters.
+o Alternate HTML - Certain tags such as the APPLET tag
allow the author to specify alternate HTML, which is
now viewable through a mode switch in the View menu.
+o Scrolling Backgrounds - Background images now scroll
when you scroll the page. Also, the background image
field has been split into two fields: one for the
local file and one for the published URL.
+o JPEG and PNG - Cosmo Create now supports WYSIWYG
inlining of progressive JPEG and PNG images.
3.3 _H_o_t__C_o_n_t_e_n_t_:__F_e_t_c_h__P_a_g_e_s__f_r_o_m__t_h_e__W_e_b
+o This feature enables you to enter a URL into Cosmo
Create and fetch the page from the web, provided the
preferences are filled out appropriately (see "Setting
up Hot Content", below). There are three ways to get a
URL into Cosmo Create:
1. Type a URL into the File->Open dialog (See
"Browse Feature" below)
2. Drag a WebJumper into the File->Open dialog
3. Enter a URL as a command line argument
Any of the above actions will cause Cosmo Create to
attempt to fetch the page from the web. Press "Cancel"
in the "Progress:" dialog to stop the download.
+o Setting up Hot Content - Cosmo Create will attempt to
acquire the network preferences from Netscape. If your
netscape is correctly set up to get outside the
firewall, Cosmo Create should be able to do the same.
In the event that Netscape is not properly configured,
you must go to File->Preferences Proxy tab panel and
fill in the SOCKS and PROXY information accordingly.
Check with your system administrator if you are not
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certain about the value of these fields.
+o Browse Feature - The File->Open dialog, as well as the
dialogs popped up from any of the "Browse" buttons, is
a mini web browser. Entering a URL into this dialog
will cause the "Filter" button to change to say
"Follow". Pressing the "Follow" button will cause
Cosmo Create to commence fetching the URL currently in
the text field and will display the links, and inline
objects in the file list. To traverse another link,
select one from the list, and again, press "Follow".
Pressing OK will cause the value from the text field to
be returned to the dialog from which the browser was
popped up. Pressing Apply in that dialog will cause
the inline image, background image, or other web
reference to be fetched into the document.
+o Saving inline images along with the HTML - Cosmo Create
allows the saving of inline images in the same
directory as the HTML for web fetched pages. To use
this feature, open the URL via any of the above
methods, modify the resultant page in some way. When
the warning dialog pops up, make sure the checkbox for
saving inline content along with the page is checked,
then click Save to save the page. The images will get
written into the same directory as the HTML.
3.4 __C_h_a_n_g_e_s__a_n_d__A_d_d_i_t_i_o_n_s__i_n__C_o_s_m_o__C_r_e_a_t_e__1_._0_._2
+o A "WYSIWYG Tables" item has been added to the View
menu. When this is turned off, tables are displayed
using graphical icons to represent the individual HTML
table tags, and the table itself is not drawn. This
isn't as pretty, but it is sometimes desirable for
speed.
+o Cosmo Create 1.0.2 now provides Chinese language
support.
+o Pressing Save in the Preferences dialog now applies the
preferences to the current editing session in addition
to saving them.
+o Whether palettes raise with the document window is now
a user settable preference.
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3.5 _C_h_a_n_g_e_s__a_n_d__A_d_d_i_t_i_o_n_s__i_n__C_o_s_m_o__C_r_e_a_t_e__1_._0_._3
+o To specify an empty VALUE attribute in a form OPTION or
INPUT tag, enter "" in the value field of the form
dialog.
+o The Delete and Backspace keys can now be used when
editing frames to delete the selected frame(s).
+o Cosmo Create now uses an explicit keyboard focus policy
instead of a pointer focus policy. This means that you
must explicitly click in a text field or editing area
to set the keyboard focus for data entry. This change
brings Cosmo Create into compliance with the SGI IRIX
Interactive Style Guide and will make editing within
text fields more convenient.
+o Selection of form components is now much easier. A text
field or text area can be selected by simply clicking
on the component. Similarly, a toggle, option or push
button is selected by pressing on it and a list
component is selected by pressing on one of the list
entries.
+o The Cosmo Create editing window's position on the
screen and its size are now preserved between runs of
the program.
+o The View Menu settings are now automatically preserved
between runs of the program. Previously, these settings
were only saved when the program preferences were
saved.
+o Empty lines that are ignored by browsers are now
indicated by both changing the end-of-paragraph symbol
(the paragraph symbol enclosed in square brackets), and
by displaying a message in the editing window status
bar.
+o A set of HTML tag reference pages has been added to the
help documentation. These pages provide detailed
information about which browsers support which HTML
elements, attributes and values.
+o Detailed HTML tag reference information can be obtained
for any tag in the Source editing window by positioning
the cursor over the tag and either selecting the Lookup
HTML Tag item on the Edit or right-mouse popup menues
or by pressing Ctrl+F1.
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+o Instead of using proprietary HTML comments, Cosmo
Create now uses the more conventional META tag with the
NAME="Generator" attribute to identify itself in HTML
output.
+o Cosmo Create now provides user tips on startup.