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Activator Selector
The Activator selector is used in many places within Sapphire/Web. It has two primary purposes which are:
- 1. Naming Activators in the current project which were not previously named.
- 2. Selecting Activators to be used for several purposes.
The Activator Selector is used to select Activators for the following:
- 1. Create new Object Bindings.
- 2. Add Activator Aliases.
- 3. Duplicate Activators.
States of the Activator Selector

Figure 2-25 Activator Selector
About the Activator Selector
How to Invoke the Interface
- 1. The Project Window's Tools menu - Object Bind Editor
- 2. The Project Window's Selected Activator's Pop-up - Duplicate
- 3. The Project Window's Main Button Bar - Object Bind Editor (New Activator)
- 4. The Project Window's Selected Activators Button Bar - Duplicate Activator
- 5. The Alias Manager's Edit menu - Add
- 6. The Alias Manager's Main Button Bar - Add Alias
- 7. The Alias Manager's Selected Aliases Pop-up - Add
- 8. The Object Bind Editor's File menu - New Editor
- 9. The Object Bind Editor's File menu - Load Activator
- 10. The Object Bind Editor's Edit menu - Copy Obj Binding
Activator ID Strings
An Activator ID String is used to identify an Activator. It is of the following format:
Forms:
html_name<FORM>form_name
Anchors:
html_name<A>form_name
Where:
html_name
= the name of the HTML Document that the form or anchor is in.
form_name
= the name specified for the selected form. If a name has never been specified, form_name
will be either a URL or be ACTION=some_name for forms and HREF=somename for anchors. Example:
ACTION=form1
would have default name of form1
.
HREF=anchor1
would have default name of anchor1
.
ACTION=http://index.cgi
would fail as a default name because http://index.cgi
has non-alpha-numeric characters. This would cause the Use Default toggle to be switched automatically to False. The next time Ok is impressed, the developer is prompted for a valid Activator name with the Activator Name dialog.
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