Chapter 13 Customizing The Development Environment - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION STUDIO 4.5-USING COLDFUSION STUDIO Use Manual

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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)......................................................... 140

Customizing Tag Chooser and Expression Builder............................................... 140

Dialog Definition Files ............................................................................................ 142

Creating Tag Definitions ......................................................................................... 143

Building Tag Editors ................................................................................................ 148

Adding Tag Help ...................................................................................................... 155

VTML Container/Control Reference ..................................................................... 156

Building Custom Wizards ....................................................................................... 173

Creating Wizard Definition Pages .......................................................................... 174

Creating Wizard Output Templates ....................................................................... 180

Wizard Definition Page Library .............................................................................. 184

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