Adobe 38040334 - Dreamweaver CS3 User Manual page 224

Chapter 15: Floating panels
You can create any kind of floating panel or inspector without the size and layout limitations of
Property inspectors.
Although a custom Property inspector should be your first choice for setting the properties of
the current selection, custom floating panels offer more room and flexibility for displaying infor-
mation about the entire document or multiple selections.
Custom floating panel files are HTML files that reside in the Configuration/Floaters folder inside
the Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 application folder. The
contains an HTML form; event handlers that are attached to form elements can call JavaScript
code that performs arbitrary edits to the current document.
Dreamweaver has several built-in floating panels that are accessible from the Window menu.
(These built-in panels are part of the core Dreamweaver code and do not have corresponding
floating panel files for them in the Configuration/Floaters folder.)
You can create custom panels and add them to the Window menu. For more information on
adding items to the menu system, see "Menus and menu commands" on page 136.
The following table lists the files you use to create a floating panel:
Path
Configuration/Floaters/
Configuration/Menus/
File Description
panelname.htm Specifies the text that appears in the title bar of the floating
panel, defines the floating panel, and contains the required
JavaScript functions.
menus.xml Adds a command to a menu.
section of a floating panel file
body