Customizing the Development Environment

Customizing the Development Environment

This chapter details the Allaire Visual Tools Markup Language (VTML), a tag-based language that is used internally by the Allaire Visual Tools -- HomeSite, ColdFusion Studio, and JRun Studio -- to generate tag-specific dialogs for editing HTML, CFML, JSP, JavaScript, and ASP language elements.

Contents

• The Visual Tools Markup Language (VTML)
• Customizing Tag Chooser and Expression Builder
• Dialog Definition Files
• Creating Tag Definitions
• Building Tag Editors
• Adding Tag Help
• VTML Container/Control Reference
• Building Custom Wizards
• Creating Wizard Definition Pages
• Creating Wizard Output Templates
• Wizard Definition Page Library

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