Allaire HomeSite 4.5a

Release Notes

December 11, 1999

For information on installation problems and support resources, see the Allaire Technical Support page.

New features that were not included in the print and online documentation are described in Documentation Updates in the Allaire Support folder.


Contents

Bugs Fixed for 4.5a

Upgrade Options

New Features

Known Issues

Bugs Fixed


Bugs Fixed for 4.5a


Upgrade Options

Running 4.5 and 4.0

Version 4.5 installs separately from 4.0, so you can switch between them as needed. To run the two versions simultaneously you must enable multiple instances in one or both product installations. To do this, create a Registry string value in the HomeSite4 and/or HomeSite45 branch in the Allaire Registry branch (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Allaire):

AllowMultipleInstances = -1

Note: If you install a previous version, you must then re-install 4.5 for it to work properly.


New Features

[RC2]

Keyboard shortcuts for script execution

A Script Shortcut tab is available in the Options > Customize dialog. Click Add, browse for a script file and add it to the list. Then select the script in the list, click in the text box next to the Apply button, and assign a keyboard shortcut to the script.

New Properties of VTOM Deployment Manager Object

You can now test the result of a DeploymentManager.UploadFile call: Server login failures will now result in an automatic cancellation of the deployment rather than forcing the user to sit through hundreds of login failures

[RC1] These properties have been introduced in to provide the same capabilities we had in the original C++ COM based Project upload DLL.
They are present on the Local or Remote deployment page of the wizard as checkboxes. These are global, project-wide settings that apply to all files that are uploaded in a project deployment session (similar to our Project Upload feature in 4.0)

New Online Documentation

These new features make it easier to use online help:

Editor Mode

Image Map Editor

The process of creating image maps in HomeSite/Studio 4.5 has been enhanced to allow new maps to be easily created and to allow all attributes for the tag to be maintained. Additionally, a default link can be specified for the image.

To create a new image map, select Tools-> Image Map from the main menu. The Create Image Map dialog will be displayed. The image list box will display any images in the current document which do not yet have a USEMAP attribute assigned. You may select an image from this list, or click on the folder button to use a new image. You will also need to provide a name for the new map in the Map Name edit box.

When you select OK, the image will be loaded in the Image Map editor and you can begin to create the map areas by using the shape tools. When you add a new shape or edit an existing shape, the map editor will now display the complete tag editor which allows you to edit all of the tag's attributes, including HTML 4.0 and event attributes.

You may also specify a default region for the map. The default region specifies the link to open when the user clicks on the image outside of any pre-defined shape areas. In the image map editor, select Options->Edit Default Area to display the tag editor. Note that you need to leave the Shape combo box at the "default" selection.

Right-click menus have also been added to the image map editor to edit, cut, copy, and paste shapes, and to edit the default area tag.

Select File->Save from the image map editor to insert the new image map tags in the document. If the image you selected in the Create Image Map dialog was already specified in the document, the appropriate USEMAP attribute will be added to the image tag. If a new image was loaded, the complete image tag will be added to the document.

See Adding Media Content for complete information.

Deployment Wizard

A new Deployment Wizard has been implemented to deploy projects to local and remote servers. See Using the Deployment Wizard for details.

Initial Configuration Wizard

The Initial Configuration Wizard automatically launches when HomeSite or Studio is run for the first time if a previous version of the product is detected. See Importing Settings from a Previous Version.

Some settings from the older version are not imported. After running the wizard, compare the 4.5 settings to those of the previous version and update the 4.5 settings manually as needed. [13036]

Allaire FTP & RDS

The Local Files tab has been changed to the Files tab in the Resources pane. This tab allows you to work with both remote and local files from the same tab. You access the remote server functionality by choosing the Allaire FTP & RDS menu item in the drive list or the Files tab. The Files tab functionality has also been integrated with Windows Explorer, allowing you to work with files from either location. See Managing Files.

Known issue with this feature:

ColdFusion Administrator Access

The Administer item in the RMB menu for RDS servers opens the default browser and points to the CF Administrator URL for the server from which the menu was invoked.

Auto Completion

Auto Completion has been added in the editor. See Getting Help Entering Content.

Function Insight

Resource Tabs

  • New options are available for positioning Resource tabs. See Customizing the Workspace.

    Collapsed Text Support

    You can collapse portions of text while working in the editor. See Collapsing Text.

    CodeSweeper

    A number of new CodeSweeper features have been added, see Preserving Code Formats with CodeSweepers.

    New Project Architecture

    See Using Projects for Site Management.

    Project Architecture - Known Issues

    Source Control Integration

    TopStyle Lite Style Editor

    The new Style Editor is a scaled-down version of Bradbury Software's TopStyle. See Formatting Pages with Cascading Style Sheets for information about using the new editor. TopStyle is a separate application and is not affected by uninstalling HomeSite or CF Studio. Use the Windows Add/Remove Programs feature to remove TopStyle from your system.


    Known Issues

    See the Project Architecture Known Issues section for information on current problems with the new projects implementation.

    See the Deployment Wizard Known Issues section for information on current problems with the deployment wizard.

    See the Allaire FTP & RDS section for information on FTP file path issues.

    Other Known Issues:


    Fixed bugs

    Fixed in RC3

    Fixed in RC2

    Fixed in RC1

    Fixed in BETA4

    Fixed in BETA3

    Fixed in BETA2

    Fixed in BETA1

    Quick List dialog Other BETA1 fixes

    Fixed in ALPHA2


    Fixed Since 4.0.1


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