HTML-Heaven - How to Use it

Requirements

Amy Amiga running KS 2.04 or higher.
A texteditor with ARexx capabilities that allows ARexx to insert text.
ARexx (up and running)

Installation

This is pretty straighforward. If you own the CBM Installer program you may just used the supplied install script to install HTML-Heaven. Otherwise you can do it manually by just copying the files from the archive to your harddisk or a floppy. In a directory of your choice. And they are ready to run. All you still need to do is to copy the ARexx script that supports your editor to S: and rename it to HTML.rexx. As well as start up your text editor. Then you can start one or more of the programs in the HTML-Heaven suite. An you are up and running. You might want to create a script like below that starts your editor, as well as maybe a default file that already contains a HTML document framwork, and then one or more of the HTML-Heaven programs. The example script below runs the standard Amiga Ed editor, with the sys:HTML/default.html file as a parameter. It then runs both HTML-Genie and ToolKit. (You will need to have a sys:HTML directory, containing a file FrameWork.html of course to use this script.)


C:Run ED SYS:HTML/FrameWork.html
C:Run HTML-Genie
C:Run ToolKit

I run a similar script that I have aliassed as HEd. Works pretty well. Putting such a script in ToolManager or running it with XIcon should not present a problem either.

Here's an example of a script for registered users using GoldEd, HTML-Genie and ToolKit. It starts all three in specified positions and loads a default file into GoldEd1.0. In this case it contains a framework for an HTML page. The preferences for GoldEd contains the opening position of it's window, as well as width and height. Also WordWrap is switched off..

C:GED CONFIG=env:GoldEd/GoldEd-HTML.prefs S:FrameWork.HTML
C:RUN C:HTML-Genie HEIGHT=112 RXSCRIPT=S:HTML-GoldEd.rexx
C:RUN C:ToolKit TOPEDGE=113 HEIGHT=249 RXSCRIPT=S:HTML-GoldEd.rexx

Another example is this script created by Cletus Baker for use with TurboText.


/**
 ** This script launches the HTML Heaven suite of programs and
 ** loads the HTML template into the current TurboText window.
 ** Made by Cletus Baker. Thanks Cletus!
 **/

options results
Address 'TURBOTEXT' 'ActivateLastDoc'
Address value result

GetWindowInfo
parse upper var result icon x y width height minwidth minheight numviews
offset = 60

if ~((height-offset) < minheight) then do
   MoveSizeWindow x (y+offset) width (height-offset)
   end
else exit

SetPrefs WordWrap OFF

Address command 'run >nil: TurboText:Support/HTML-Helper PUBSCREEN=TURBOTEXT'
Address command 'run >nil: TurboText:Support/Toolkit PUBSCREEN=TURBOTEXT 
TOPEDGE=230 LEFTEDGE=486'

exit

Running

All four programs may be run from either the Shell ( Registered users may supply parameters) or from their icon. ( Registered users may supply ToolTypes)

To help users understand the HTML language, an AmigaGuide format document that describes HTML is included in this archive. It's a conversion from an original HTML document to AmigaGuide format. But it's by no means a complete reference. As the HTML language is still developing, the latest references are available on the World Wide Web.

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