Welcome to the Adobe^® GoLive^® 6.0 Extend Script Software Development Kit

New features and significant enhancements mark this important upgrade to the GoLive SDK. To help guide you, we’ve included some helpful information about the new SDK features, using the SDK, and contacting the development team.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• New features in GoLive 6.0
• Getting Started
• Installing Extensions
• Community
• Latest Updates
• Contacting the SDK team
• Adobe Solutions Network
• Legal Notices

The GoLive Extend Script SDK enables you to extend the behavior and user interface of Adobe GoLive. Using the special markup tags the SDK provides, and your own JavaScript extensions, you can create fully-featured

• Floating palettes (modeless windows)
• Modal dialogs that include text, graphics and controls.
• Menus and menu items.
• Drag-and drop custom HTML elements that can be edited in the Inspector

The SDK enables even the most casual of JavaScript programmers to add functionality to GoLive. Yet it is comprehensive and powerful: The SDK provides numerous JavaScript objects and methods your scripts can call to perform tasks on a document, on a site, in the GoLive environment, on the host file system, and even on remote file systems.

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Adobe GoLive 6.0 provides everything you need to create your own extensions within GoLive itself. This unique approach continues to win rave reviews from our developers and sets this SDK apart.

• Extension Builder provides a jump-start for creating new extensions within GoLive
• Dialog Editor gives you control in designing the visual appearance of dialogs

You can create:

• Custom UI elements (menus, dialogs, palettes)
• Automate processes
• Custom Wizards
• GoLive supports:
• Custom Tags
• Custom Server Markup

Improvements in GoLive 6:

• Significantly improved access to site features: custom columns, site rescan, site reporting, and page generation
• Solid cross-platform and localization extension support
• Rich application event support - respond to document, site and application events
• Custom code in the page with translation parsing control
• Multiple, simultaneous custom file type support
• Extended ability to customize the GoLive interface with more palette, dialog, and menu control
• New UI controls including a powerful hiearchical tree view control
• Built-in debugger with stepping, command line, breakpoints
• Built-in JavaScript shell to immediately access and debug all the GoLive extension features
• Rich access to WebDAV features
• Extensible Dynamic Content features, custom content sources
  

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If you’re already extending pages with JavaScript, then you’ll find it easy to extend functionality in GoLive. You will find everything you need to extend Adobe GoLive in the Adobe GoLive SDK 6.0r1 folder in the main application folder. We’ve provided documentation and numerous samples for you to review and modify. Inside each sample extension folder, the Main.html file describes the extension, and also contains its source code.

For more detailed information, see the “SDK Programmers Guide.pdf” in the SDK 6 folder within the GoLive 6 application folder. Please check the Release Notes for any pertinent changes that affect the release.

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Simply drag the extension’s folder into the “Modules/Extend Scripts” folder within the application folder. New to GoLive 6, you can enable and disable extensions just like modules in the Edit > Preferences dialog. In this dialog, the extensions are listed in Modules > Extend Scripts.

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The Adobe ActionXchange (http://www.actionxchange.com) is a unique site where you can learn, share and download thousands of easy-to-install actions, extensions, modules, and more for Adobe GoLive. This is the central location where extensibility developers and customers can exchange helpful product extensions to fit the growing needs of Web authors worldwide.

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http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/golive/main.html offers ASN developer support, knowledge base, FAQ, the latest versions of the SDK, including further documentation and additional samples.

http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/main.html is a useful User-to-User Forum for questions you might have about the Adobe GoLive SDK.

NOTE: As newer versions of the SDK documentation and samples become available, they will be posted on the web. To receive the latest version of the Extend Script SDK, please check the GoLive SDK pages at http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/gapsdk/GoLiveSDK.html.

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GoLiveSDKwishlist@adobe.com is the best way to contact us and we review every request that comes in because we are listening and want to help.

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Developer support is available as part of a Premium Membership in the Adobe Solutions Network. Basic Membership allows members to purchase developer support cases individually or in 5 and 10 packs.

How to contact the Adobe Solutions Network

In the U.S. and Canada, and outside Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Japan, contact:

Adobe Solutions Network
Adobe Systems Incorporated
P.O. Box 609
Klamath Falls, OR 97601

For program information:
Tel: +1-800-685-3510(US/Canada only) or +1-206-675-6145
Fax: +1-800-955-1610 or 1+541-880-5075

For membership questions:
E-mail: asndeveloper@adobe.com
Web: http://partners.adobe.com

In Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, contact:

Adobe Solutions Network
Edinburgh EH11 4GJ
Scotland, United Kingdom

For program information:
Tel: +44 131 458 6800
Fax: +44 131 458 6801

For membership questions:
E-mail: euroasn@adobe.com
Web: http://partners.adobe.com

In Japan, contact:

Adobe Solutions Network
Adobe Systems Co., Ltd.
P.O. Box 43, Bunkyo Green Court Post Office
2-28-8 Hon-Komagome, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-0021 Japan

For program information:
Tel: +81-(0)3-5740-2620
Fax: +81-(0)3-5740-2621

For membership questions:
E-mail: asnjp@adobe.co.jp
Web: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/japan/developer/benefits.html

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