Adobe GoLive CS2 Official JavaScript Reference

Book excerpt: Written by the engineers and scripting experts at Adobeand now available for the first time in printthis book is an essential reference guide for developers who want to extend the capabilities of Adobe GoLive CS2 using JavaScript and the special markup tags that the GoLive CS2 SDK (Software Developer's Kit) provides. If you're familiar with GoLive, JavaScript, and C and C++ programming, you'll find the information you need to create custom tools and extensions tailored to your specific GoLive tasks. For example, you can create floating palettes and task-specific dialogs that include text, graphics, and controls; add custom HTML elements that can be edited in an Inspector palette; add new controls to the Objects paletteanything that helps streamline your company's GoLive workflow. And since nearly all of the user commands in GoLive are made available in JavaScript, you can use JavaScript to automate repetitive tasks, for example, editing all the documents on your site automatically, or to customizing menu items in GoLive according to the contents of a specific database. You'll find plenty of reference information about the markup tags and JavaScript objects that the GoLive CS2 SDKwhich ships with every copy of Adobe GoLive CS2provides.