Welcome to the Adobe® GoLive™ 5.0 Extend Script Software Development Kit

Version 5.0r1

Introduction

The GoLive Extend Script SDK enables you to extend the behavior and user interface of version 5.0 of Adobe GoLive. Using specialized tags provided by the SDK, and your own JavaScript code, you can create customized page elements and user interface items in the GoLive website design environment, including fully-featured:

  • Floating palettes (modeless windows) that provide drag-and-drop tools and page elements
  • Modal dialogs that include text, graphics and controls
  • Menus and menu items
  • Custom HTML elements

Optionally, JavaScript extensions can call custom libraries written in the C, C++ or JavaScript programming languages; however, knowledge of C is not required to use this SDK.

NOTE: As newer versions of the SDK documentation and samples become available, they will be posted on the web. To receive the latest version of the Extend Script SDK, please check the GoLive pages on www.adobe.com.

Samples

The Adobe GoLive SDK Samples folder contains a number of ready-to-use sample extensions. The following is a short description of the sample extensions. Please see the documentation for further information about the samples. The documentation also contains information on installing the samples and enabling the Extend Script module.

Extension
Description
Binary API Shows how to write an external library in C or C++. External libraries become available to all SDK extensions.
Components If you want to convert one or several components into editable items, choose Detach component or Detach all components from the Special menu. This new feature is pre-installed in the Modules\Extend Scripts folder. To use Detach component, first select a component in the current document. To use Detach all components, the current document must contain one or more components.

Please see the GoLive user documentation for information on creating and working with components.
Custom Box Implements a custom tag that has an entry in the Objects palette and adds a custom HTML element to the page when the user drops the icon on a GoLive document window. Also provides a custom Inspector window that enables the user to modify the properties of the custom element interactively.
Dialog Editor A more complex example that provides several custom elements as Objects palette entries. You can drag these palette entries to a GoLive document window to design a custom dialog your extension can use.
KeyMap Displays a palette which allows the user to insert a character in a document by clicking on the character map. Uses external images to customize its display according to the current hardware platform.
Markup Tree Contains a set of routines demonstrating how to work with the document markup tree.
Menus and Dialogs Creates custom menus, menu items, dialogs, and dialog controls.
Palettes Shows how to implement a floating palette window and palette menu. It also calls a function defined by the Binary API sample.
SSI Adds Server Side Include tags to the Objects palette.

Documentation

The GoLive 5.0 Extend Script SDK Programmer's Guide contains information on how to use the SDK as well as reference information.

The documentation is provided in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). The Acrobat® Reader™ is included on the GoLive 5.0 application CD. The Acrobat Reader is also provided free of charge from www.adobe.com.

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