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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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