Adobe Extending Dreamweaver CS4 - Manual (Page 376)

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The Shared folder
The CMN folder
The CMN folder contains the following utility functions:
File Description
classCheckbox.js Helps manipulate a check box control in your HTML extension.
FileClass.js Contains a class that represents a file in the file system. The paths are represented by URLs for cross-
platform compatibility. Methods include
toString() , getName() , getSimpleName() ,
getExtension() , getPath() , setPath() , isAbsolute() , getAbsolutePath() ,
getParent() , getAbsoluteParent() , exists() , getAttributes() , canRead() ,
canWrite() , isFile() , isFolder() , listFolder() , createFolder() , getContents() ,
setContents() , copyTo() , and remove() .
GridClass.js Contains a class that manages MM:TREECONTROL .
GridControlClass.js Older version of the GridControlClass in the Common folder. See the GridControlClass.js file in the
Shared/Common/Scripts folder.
ImageButtonClass.js Older version of the ImageButtonClass in the Common folder. See the ImageButtonClass.js file in
the Shared/Common/Scripts folder.
ListControlClass.js Older version of the ListControlClass in the Common folder. See the
Shared/Common/Scripts/ListControlClass.js file.
NameValuePairClass.js Creates and manages a list of name/value pairs. Names can contain any character. Values can be blank,
but cannot be set to
null , which is the same as deleting them.
PageControlClass.js Example of a page class to be used with the TabControl class. See TabControlClass.js description.
PreferencesClass.js Contains an object and methods that contain all the preference information for a command.
RadioGroupClass.js Older version of the RadioGroupClass in the Common folder. See the RadioGroupClass.js file in the
Shared/Common/Scripts folder.
TabControlClass.js Helps build an extension that has multiple tab views, page.lastUnload().
File Description
dateID.js Contains two functions, createDateID() and decipherDateID() . Given three strings,
" dayFormat" , " dateFormat" , and " timeFormat" , createDateID() creates an ID for them. Given
a date array, decipherDateID() returns an array with three items: the dayFormat , the
dateFormat , and the timeFormat .
displayHelp.js Contains one function that displays the specified Help document.
docInfo.js Contains functions that provide information about the user’s document. Operations performed by
functions include returning an array of object references for a specified browser type and tag,
returning all instances of a specified tag name, searching for a tag that wraps the current selection,
and so on.
DOM.js Contains general helper functions for working with the Dreamweaver DOM. Includes functions that
get the root node of the active document, find a tag of a given name, create a list of nodes from the
specified starting node, check whether a given tag is contained inside another tag, perform various
operations on behavior functions, and more.
enableControl.js Contains one function, SetEnabled() , which enables or disables a control based on the arguments
it receives. It is OK to enable a control that is already enabled or disable a control that is already
disabled.
errmsg.js Contains logging functions for accumulating tracing output into an array of log pages that appear in
a dialog box.