• Netedit 7.x •
• Specificities •
• The look •
The look isn't very different than the old 16-bit versions one. The graphics style has been kept.
So, the user isn't disoriented: he (she) founds the same menus, dialog-boxes, project tree frame and so on...
The tool-bar only is very different: please, go to the "Toolbar" topic.
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• Special devices •
The
built-in HTML viewer is one in the most important add-ons in Netedit 7.x. This viewer is "fast-loading".
It supports:
HTML 4.0 text encoding.
Good pictures and colors diplay (JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP).
M-S Internet Explorer® sound markers.
Large display: the full-screen about.
Many attributes, like <HSPACE> <MARQUEE> etc. .
Moreover, it's free! You don't need to buy a registration for an add-on viewer!
The built-in HTML viewer is the default setting.
To choose another viewer, press the Options 
button, then click on the HTML viewer tab
to get the choice-box.
The "Word(s) search..." function has been added.
It's set in the "Edit" menu. Keyboard shortcut: CTRL+F11.
The "Next search" is set in the same menu. Keyboard shortcut: CTRL+F12.
The searched string is saved, even if you turn-off the PC; so, you can search the same string later in any file.
7.1 version and later: you can choose the UPPERCASE or the lowercase for the the sound or picture file-name and path writing.
- To get these choice tick-boxes: press the "Options" button
at the right end of the customizable button-bar
Press the "Editor" tab
Tick the appropriate box. Press "OK".
- A third choice is possible, the Windows 9x ® true internal writing .
- This function eliminates the case problems if your Web-site host has an UNIX server.
- Important tip: when you begin a project -especially to build a Web-site-, please choose a case style and never change it!
- The "All lowercase" style is recommended.
Specificities
• Change the language •
With the 7.x versions, you can change the language for the whole of the software.
To do that, press the "Options" button at the right-end of the customizable tool-bar: you get the default Options window Press the "Language" tab: you get the dialog-box below:
There are three fields on this box:
- The main window, with *.mn1 file-type,
- The current file, with *.mn2 file-type,
- The dialog-boxes, with *.dlg file-type.
To change the language:
- Press the first "Browse..." button, you get a special choice-box:
- Open the "Langue" sub-directory,
- Select the appropriate .mn1 file.
- Click "Open".
- Repeat these operations for the other fields -.mn2 and .dlg files-,
- When it's ended, press "OK" on the "Option /Language" box,
- Close Netedit and restart it to apply these new language parameters.
Notice: the "Language" files are "text" format files.
Hence, it's easy to edit and translate them!
Users can translate into their native languages, at least the European languages using the ASCII characters:
Make a backup copy for the files to translate... It's useful to make a <Save> sub-dir. to keep these backups.
In any language file, each row is built like:
xyz$Text1|Text2
Text1 is the info-text displayed when the mouse-cursor runs over a button,
Text2 is optional, it's displayed on the lower status-bar; it can be different.
Don't change the xyz$ number!
Keep the bar | between "Text1" and "Text2".
Titles / Comments / Partition rows must begin like: //Text...
Empty rows are prohibited!
The "&" character enables the next character as the keyboard-shortcut for this command. Please, take care to have a different character for each command-row in the same menu or sub-menu!
Actually, French, English and Italian language-files are released only.
If you want for translate into a new missing language, f.i.: Spanish, you may create a <Spanish> sub-dir., to place the "spanish.*" translated language-files.
If you wrote a translation, please send it
to the author as a ZIP file.
This work shall be very appreciated always! Thanks!
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• Important features •
- The long files-names are supported, as the Windows 9x / NTx® style. Hence, you can use the "HTML" extension for your files!
- The file size isn't limited! So, you can create a single big file instead several smaller ones. For instance, it's useful to write a Course or an Help file like this, using fast hypertext links with the markers: <![CDATA[<A NAME="name">the link target: text, picture </A>]]> which is the target to reach from an usual file link like:
<![CDATA[<A HREF="#name">the link command: text, picture</A>]]>
For a link to a topic in another file:<![CDATA[
<A HREF="path/file.html#name">the link command: text, picture</A>]]>
This kind of link is always faster than another linked file, because there is none additional file to load.
- When you press the
preview button to get a preview, the file is automatically saved!
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• Miscellaneous informations •
Now, you may use 256-color bitmaps for the customizable tool-bar buttons. This free download contains two collections (16 and 256 colors).
The customizable tool-bar can be hidden: go to the "Options" menu
"Customizable button-bar"; remove the mark in the "Visible" box placed on the first row of this menu.
A "Make sub-dir." command exists from:
"File" menu
"New". Also from the dock project-tree frame (right-click).
To get the "Looped Sound dialog-box", go to:
the HTML menu "Effects" "Multimedia" "Sound (IE)".
Pressing the "F8" key, you get a dialog-box; it allows to write automatically a link code to a local HTML file; the path is included.
You can also get it from the button 
on the tool-bar
Menu "File F8".
• Partition line •
- Reachable from the "HTML" menu Style.
- The chosen parameters are saved for a next using but the colour.
- To get a coloured line, please tick the box, and press the "Colour" button wich becomes available.
- You get the usual colour-palette.
- If you prefer all lines in the same colour, you can write an instruction in the <STYLE> marker or an external *.css style-sheet like:
HR {color:colour }
- Choose too the ALIGN attribute in the scrolling-list; it's very useful, because ALIGN doesn't work always in the <STYLE> marker or from a *.CSS external style-sheet for this <HR> marker...
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• Dialog-boxes •
• External link •
Link to a local file only
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