Chapter 8: Menus And Menu Commands; Chapter 8: Menus And Menu Commands - MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004-EXTENDING DREAMWEAVER Manual

CHAPTER 8
Menus and Menu Commands
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 creates all its menus from the structure defined in the
menus.xml file in the Dreamweaver Configuration/Menus folder. You can rearrange, rename, and
remove menu items by editing the menus.xml file. You can also add, change, and remove
keyboard shortcuts for menu items, although in most cases it is easier to do that using the
Keyboard Shortcut Editor (see Dreamweaver Help). Changes to the Dreamweaver menus take
effect the next time you start Dreamweaver or reload extensions.
In a multiuser operating system, when you make changes within Dreamweaver that result in
changes to menus.xml (such as changing keyboard shortcuts using the Keyboard Shortcut
Editor), Dreamweaver creates a new menus.xml file in your user Configuration folder. To
customize menus.xml in a multiuser operating system, edit the copy of the file in your user
Configuration folder (or copy the master menus.xml file to your user Configuration folder if
Dreamweaver hasn't yet created a version there). For more information, see "About customizing
Dreamweaver in a multiuser environment" on page 29.
If you open menus.xml in an XML editor, you might see error messages regarding the ampersands
(&) in the menus.xml file. It's best to edit menus.xml in a text editor; do not edit it in
Dreamweaver. For basic information about XML, see Dreamweaver Help.
Note: Always make a backup copy of the current menus.xml file, or any other Dreamweaver
configuration file, before you modify it. It's easy to make mistakes while editing the menu
configuration file, and there's no way to revert to a previous set of menus other than replacing the
menus.xml file. In case you forget to make a backup, the Configuration folder contains a backup of the
default menus.xml file, called menus.bak; to revert to the default menu set, replace menus.xml with a
copy of menus.bak.
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