HTML-Heaven - Overview

First and Foremost!

This package is meant as Shareware. Meaning that when you find this program useful, you ARE morally obliged to send a US$ 15 contribution to the author.

I know I have no way of making you pay these 15 bucks I ask for the program. However, take heed! If nobody sends in a contribution, I *will* assume that nobody uses the program and therefore I cease all efforts to upgrade and/or support this program. Furthermore, I will probably go commercial with other programs. You will have to pay a lot more then, and you will have no way of testing it out before you pay. Finally, remember this saying:

'It is better to give than to receive!'
(I've given you this program, so now it's you turn, isn't it?)

Enjoy the programs!

HTML-Heaven is a suite of four programs intended to interface with any editor supporting ARexx commands. It's purpose is it to make creating and maintaining HTML documents easy by offering easy access to the HTML commands. The suite is not WYSIWYG because the Amiga is a true multi-tasking computer and it's only a question of a couple of mouseclicks to save the HTML document in the editor and reload it into say AMosaic, ALynx or WebLink for WYSIWIG viewing. The philosphy behind that is this way all the users are free to use their own favorite browser instead of having to use the one provided. Which is why HTML-Heaven interfaces with most Amiga text editors instead of using a built-in one. To facilitate the creation of HTML pages the suite consists of four different programs that can be used in any combination or just on their own. Just pick the one(s) that you like best and feel comfortable with.

HTML-Genie: This program open a horizontal window containing 6 listview gadgets. Which contain the commonly used HTML commands. Just selecting the command you want will make HTML-Genie transfer it to your texteditor.
HTML-Helper: This program opens a horizontal window containing seven rows of four buttons. Allowing you easy point and click access to the most commonly used HTML commands. This program is intented as a replacement for HTML-Genie for those users who dislike the list- view interface in that program.
HTML-Wizard: This program opens a horizontal window containing six cycle gadgets. Which contain the commonly used HTML commands. Just selecting the command you want will make HTML-Wizard transfer it to your texteditor. This program is intended for those who have the CycleToMenu commodity running. As this program will only then reach it's full functionality.
ToolKit: This last program opens a vertical window containing two listview gadgets. The top one contains all the HTML commands also present in HTML-Genie, the bottom one allows registered users to enter their own custom commands. These are read from a configuration file when ToolKit is started.

All four programs are font-sensitive and will use the default screen font. Providing this would not cause their window to exceed the screen size. In which case they revert to the Topaz 8 system font. All HTML-commands are also present in the menu. So demanding users can iconify the program and then access the HTML-commands from the menu while the program is iconified. The communication with the user's text editor is done via an ARexx script. This makes supporting other editors very easy and allows the user very high flexibility with regards to exactly what is transmitted to the editor. Some sample scripts are included in the package. The menu layout of all four programs is identical, making it easy on the user to find all the commands located in the menu. Furthermore the user can define if all the commands should be in one menu (distributed in submenu's) or if every HTML category is to be given it's own menu. This can be done via the appropriate 'MENU=' Tooltype/CLI parameter.

For registered users the programs offer a number of other useful features.

On-line help for the HTML commands. Just enable the Help item in the menu and select a command. Instead of sending the command to the editor, the program will display a requester with the command and a short text on the HTML command.
ToolTypes/CLI parameters to customize the programs. Included is support for different fonts, sizes, position to open the window, position of the iconified window and the public screen to open up on.
Removal of the 'Reminder' requester that pops up when you end any of the programs in the HTML-Heaven suite.
Full and unlimited access to the Arexx Hosts contained in the programs.
The suite now also allows the user to edit tags that where selected before these are sent on to the text-editor. To use this feature, the user should select the 'Edit Tag' item in the menu. As this is a toggle item, selecting it again will trun the 'Edit tag' option off. Hitting the 'Enter' key in the string gadget or clicking the Ok gadget will send the edited tag to the text editor. Clicking the Cancel gadget will send the original tag instead. Note, the 'Edit Tag' option is not valid for HTML-Wizard at this moment.

The unregistered version is fully functional, apart from the above four features. But judging from past experience, some people need an incentive to get them to register a program. Even if it's only US$ 15.- to do so. And I put a lot of time and effort in the creation of this suite. Although I don't expect to become rich from it, I do hope it will bring me back some monetary reward.

For more info about the HTML language please read the accompagnying HTML Intro AmigaGuide(tm) document. This is the official NCSA HTML primer that I converted from HTML to AmigaGuide format. It contains all the information that one needs to get started. It's by no means a complete reference work on the HTML language though. As that language is still evolving. You can find a host of information on HTML on the World Wide Web.

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