Web Weaver Help File

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   What does this program do?

Fixed bugs and New Stuff

   What's New in Version 5.0a (not this version)?

   Bug Fixes/Improvements

   Troubleshooting


What's New in Web Weaver!

What's New in version 5.0a!

- Improved menu layout - Most code is in alphabetical order for easier finding.

- The HTML 3.0 menu item has been removed because it would have made it more confusing to find the HTML tag that you wanted.  All HTML 3.0 tags are included in the Insert menu item.

- HTML tags have been separated into their correct categorical menu headings such as: Physical Style Tags; Logical Style Tags, Paragraph/Text Elements, etc.

- MUCH MUCH MUCH! more HTML code, both HTML 2.0 and 3.0, including Math tags, Attributes, more special characters, etc. have been added to Web Weaver.  Over 100 menu items in all.

- Now when you open a document, Web Weaver maximizes it to cover the whole Web Weaver screen.

- Most dialog boxes now have Help! buttons on them for context sensitive help on that particular item.

- Dialog boxes also have a sleek new look.  No more bold text headings, smaller buttons, leaner, etc.

- Special characters now have input dialog boxes for easier insertion, and include math variables, vowels, and various characters.

- Includes image mapping software Map THIS! and provides a menu item to link to that software.

- Link to FTP Client option on the menu bar.

- Improved HTML Form entry dialog box(FORM MAKER)providing a preview of each type of form input.

- HTML 3.0 Tables are now supported.  TABLE MAKER makes it very easy to insert tables into your HTML document.

- Background and BGColor settings dialog box are now combined and now include tags for

visited link and active link colors.  Also, the text labels(Linked text, Visited text, etc.) for each type of Web text change to the color that you have chosen.  Color boxes adjacent to the labels also display the color you have selected for the respective Web page text color.

- Options and preferences settings dialog box that will update the INI file automatically.

Settings include: Working directory, Image directory, Working Font, Fontsize, Browser path/name, FTP client path/name, and ImageMapper path/name.

- Toolbox settings dialog box that automatically updates the INI file.

- Web Weaver opens with a default template which includes the necessary tags to create a

"grammatically correct" HTML document

- Allows the user to open a user-defined template to start a document.  When choosing Open from the pull-down menu, the template file type (.wwt) has been added to the list to choose from.

- Date & Time menu item, inserts the current date and time into the document.  Also, each new document is time/date stamped with a comment at the top of the document.

- ISMAP tag, FIGure tag, and Alignment preview box are added to the Inline Image dialog box

- An insert button is added to the Inline Image box so the user can insert inline image

attributes into the document without having to create an entire Inline Image

tag (e.g., Align=Top)

- Align options in Inline Image box are in a list box format to minimize the size of the dialog box.

- Attribute menu item added to the Insert menu allowing the user to insert common HTML

attributes.

- Built in Tutorial for beginners.

- Web Wizard provides an easy way to create a simple HTML document

- User can now specify the name of the stripped file when stripping HTML tags from a document

- The Web Weaver icon has a transparent background.

- More buttons on the screen for easier access to FTP client, browser, etc.

- The HTML Stripper has had a few bugs fixed in it.  It used to skip some characters, but now it parses all characters.

- More sample images and backgrounds are included for your use.

What's new in version 5.0!

- Multiple Document editing is supported in this version.

- A recent file list of 4 files is listed at the bottom of the File menu item similar to most commercial word processor's recent files list.

- User defined toolbox is included, allowing 5 user defined buttons to be assigned.

- Right click pull-down menu is available which is similar to most word processors

including Cut, Copy, Paste, limited Undo, etc.

- Find/Replace capabilities.

- More HTML and Netscape TAG including MailTo, Background Colors, and Background Wallpaper.

- Fonts dialog box is supported for using any system fonts in your text window.

- TAGs for Forms are included in the Form dialog box under the Insert/Form menu item.

- Interactive Menu Lists and Directory Lists are added to the Insert Lists menu item.

- Eventually HTML 3.0 Tables will be supported and also an Options box which will allow the user to change browsers to link to, working fonts, working directories, etc. by automatically changing the INI file.


Bug Fixes/Improvements in Web Weaver

Bug Fixes/Improvements since Web Weaver 5.0:

- OK, OK.  Here's the FINAL story on <P>, <HR>, and <BR>.  I used to put carriage returns in front of or behind these tags because I thought it would be easier to input them until

I started getting frustrated.  From now on, when you enter a <P>, <HR>, or <BR> tag it

will be inserted EXACTLY at the position of your cursor, and your cursor will end up

on the right side of that code.  The exception is <P> which has changed to <P></P> in HTML 3.0.  The cursor will end up between the tags if no text was selected before inserting

the <P> tag OR the cursor will end up to the right of the end tag </P>.  The main thing

is that you won't have to guess where to put your cursor to get these tags into the

correct positions.

- I fixed the Align attribute in the Inline Image dialog box.  It wasn't inserting the Align

attribute into the document.  That's all better now.

-The toolbox no longer disappears behind the Web Weaver screen, and when you close the toolbox and re-open it the toolbox items will still be there.  Also, minimizing Web Weaver now minimizes the toolbox, and maximizing it will restore the toolbox.

- The Form Maker now has the Select and TextArea input types included.  Also, Form Maker now includes a Input Type preview so you can see what each type of Input Type will look like.

- The browsing for image filenames was changed so that only the filename (not the path) is inserted into the text box.  Also, there is a choice of having the lowercase letters changed to all uppercase with the click of a button.

- Visited link and Active link text colors were added to the Background/BGColor dialog box.  Also, in version 5.0 when a user clicked CANCEL in the color selection dialog box the HEX code would be placed in the BGColor text box anyway.  This is now fixed.  Also, only a maximum of six characters can be typed into these BGColor boxes.  This reduces the error if you happen to type more than 6 by accident.

- The Cut and Copy buttons were switched so that they matched industry standard conventions (like Microsoft Word).

- In the hypertext input box, you can now press <ENTER> when typing in the Link box and the HTML code will be placed in the document.  Before you had to type in the Link box and then click OK.

- The Align radio buttons have been switched to a List Box to minimize space.

-  The Save As dialog box used to read 'Insert File' after you inserted a file.  This has been fixed.

- When maximizing a document in version 5.0, the Web Weaver title bar would read: 'Web Weaver 5.0 - [Untitled:1] - Filename.htm'.  This has been fixed so the 'Untitled:1' is no longer there.

- The shortcut key for Enlarge Font has been switched to CTRL-N.  Now the Center tag has the CTRL-E shortcut key.

- In version 5.0, when exiting Web Weaver, the Windows task list reported Web Weaver as still running.  This has been fixed.

Bug Fixes/Improvements since Web Weaver 4.0b:

These fixes improve the functionality of Web Weaver and make it more similar to conventional editors/word processors.

- Along with the multiple document editing comes a File menu more similar to conventional software.  Save As, Save, Close, and Exit all work in the conventional way.  When you have edited a file and choose Exit, Web Weaver asks if you wish to save the file instead of asking "Are you sure you wish to quit?"

- Print is still being worked on even though it works.

- Removed the horizontal scrollbar from the text windows so a hard return will not have to be hit in order for you to get to the next line.  Otherwise you could keep typing and the line of text would keep running off the page.

- Switched the positions of the Cut and Copy buttons to mimic the configuration of Microsoft Word.

- When pressing the <P> button or menu item the insertion of the "<P>" is preceded by a carriage return.  Before, a carriage return came after the "<P>" was inserted.  It is common HTML practice to type "<P>" at the beginning of a new line and then directly following it with the text of the new paragraph.  The change of this button/menu item makes this more intuitive.

- The <HR> insert tag was also changed so that a carriage return precedes AND comes after the "<HR>".  This makes it easy to press the <HR> button when at the end of a sentence, and the cursor will feed to the next line, insert "<HR>" and then feed to the following line.

- Selected text in the editor window is automatically placed in the Anchor box when the Anchor menu item is chosen.

- Graphics menu item is now called Inline Image.

- The Align feature in the Inline Images box is fixed so that double-clicking in the background of the box clears ALL values.  Also, previously both Netscape and normal HTML Align values could simultaneously be chosen when there should actually only be one choice for insertion.  This is fixed so that the Align values can only have one selected choice.

- Netscape Item types in the Numbered List box is fixed so that double-clicking won't cause errors during insertion.  The clearing of the values used to accidentally clear the Start value which would cause an error if you tried to insert.

- The Address tag was placed in the Paragraph/Text Elements and MailTo Tag was added to the Netscape Extensions menu item.

- Browse buttons added to the Inline Images box and Hypertext box.

- The ability to type in the desired input in dialog boxes like Hypertext, Inline Image, Anchors, Lists and hit the <ENTER> key to say "OK" instead of having to type then click on OK to submit the input.


Inline Image box


Preferences Settings


More HTML Tags


Vowels dialog box


Form Maker


Table Maker


Background and BGColor


What does Web Weaver Do?
What is Web Weaver?

Web Weaver is an HTML text editor which facilitates the coding of World Wide Web pages viewed on text or graphical browsers such as Mosaic or Netscape.

Here are some features of Web Weaver:

Easy-to-use push buttons which automate repetitive keyboard input (such as <P>, <HR>)

Intuitive dialog boxes for the insertion of hypertext, inline images, anchors, lists, etc.

Font reduction and enlargement for easier viewing of text.

Selection of text followed by pushing one of the buttons results in the modification of that particular text or the insertion of that text into a dialog box for hypertext/list/image insertion.  For example, selecting the words 'very important' and then pushing the Bold button results in the selected words to be surrounded by the HTML bold tag.  Pushing an insertion button results in the selected text filling in one of the text input boxes in a dialog box.

Easy printing of your document.

Some context-sensitive help.

Status bar for displaying button uses.

Netscape Extensions are included.

Links to a specified browser at the push of a button.  This allows the user to view their document.

Strip HTML tags from a document by pushing the strip button.  This results in the creation of a text document with HTML tags removed.

Ability to insert a file into another (already open) file.


Troubleshooting

Below are some problems that you might run into...

Why doesn't Link to Browser work?

Make sure the Browser path and title are specified correctly in the INI file, and that the INI file is in the same directory as the Web Weaver program.

Why does Web Weaver open a new Netscape window each time I press Link to Browser?

This should only happen if you are using Netscape version 1.2N for Windows 95.  I'm still working on a fix for this so please be patient.  I guess for now you'll have to Alt-Tab to Netscape and reload or load the current HTML document.

Why can't Web Weaver find my WEBWEV.INI file??

The WEBWEV.INI file could be in a different directory than the Web Weaver program file.  In order for the program to find the INI file, they must be in the same directory AND they cannot be in the root directory together.

Why aren't the toolbox button settings I specified in the INI file being loaded into the toolbox??

Well, you must be doing something wrong.  That's the only explanation I can think of.  How's that for technical support??

Just kidding!  If you mimicked the example INI file that I included with the program and the INI file is in the same directory as the Web Weaver program, then everything should work.

Although, there might also be a problem if you ,for example, specify settings for button 4 and button 6, but not for button 5.  Web Weaver will most likely only show button 4 on the toolbox.  Try not to skip button numbers if you are specifying less than 5 buttons.

Why do the Special Characters run off the screen in the pull down menu, or why is the Link to Browser button halfway of the screen??

Your screen settings are probably at 640X480.  Setting you resolution at 600X800 will fix this and give you a bit more room.  640X480 seems like those enormous LEGOs that I used to play with.  A bit oversized, and I can't fit as much as I want on the screen.

If you have any questions feel free to email me at mmm@tiac.net