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Dialog Definition Files

The structure of the markuptags.vtm and expressionelements.vtm files is very simple.
They both contain a set of category and element tags. Category tags can contain any
number of elements or other nested category tags.
<CAT ... main category>
The following section explains how to create and update
Category tag
The
left pane of the Tag Chooser and Expression Builder dialog boxes.
The following table describes the
Category Tag <CAT .../>
CAPTION
DESC
HELPFILE
ICON
EXPANDED
SHOWSUBELEMENTS
<CAT ... sub-category No.1>
<E ... >
<E ... >
<E ... >
</CAT>
<CAT ... sub-category No.2>
<E ... >
<E ... >
</CAT>
</CAT>
tag defines a category in the Category tree. The Category tree populates the
CAT
tag:
CAT
The caption of the category.
The contents of the HTML Help for the category. Notice that the
HELPFILE attribute can be used to specify the Help as a separate
file.
The relative path to the HTML Help for the category.
(
HELPFILE = "Docs/MyTag.htm"
"Folder"|"Elements"|RelativeFilePath. Defines the icon used for the
category. You can use a predefined Folder or Elements category. In
addition, a relative file path can be provided to a custom BMP
image (ICON ="images/custom.bmp"). By default, the Folder icon
is displayed.
YES/NO Indicates that the category tree-item should be expanded
the first time the dialog box is displayed. By default this value is set
to NO.
YES/NO. Indicates that when selected the elements of its
sub-categories will also be displayed on the right-hand side. For
example, when the "HTML Tags" category is selected the right
hand side displays all the tags included in all the HTML tag
sub-categories. By default, this value is set to YES.
and
CATEGORY ELEMENT
)
tags.