Developing Web Content with Micrografx QuickSilver™

Micrografx QuickSilver version 3.0 works as an ActiveX™ control for the shipping version of the Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 browser and as a plug-in to the Netscape Navigator™ 3.0 Web browser. Micrografx QuickSilver 1.0 works as a plug-in to the Netscape Navigator ™ 2.x Web browser. Once you have installed Micrografx QuickSilver, either browser can display the vector-based objects in Micrografx Designer™ drawings.

In addition, Micrografx QuickSilver 3.0 lets Web developers display WMF and EMF graphics on the Web.

Introduction

Like bitmapped graphics, Designer objects add visual interest to your Web pages and can act as links to Web resources, such as other pages or Web sites.

Unlike bitmapped graphics, your Designer objects can detect user-initiated events (such as mouse movement and mouse-button clicks) and respond to them by executing commands that you specify. You build this behavior into the objects, so no external script needs to be executed.

As a Web author, you use Designer to create the objects and set their properties. Your users only need the Micrografx QuickSilver plug-in and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or Netscape Navigator 2.0 or 3.0 to view the objects.

LiveConnect Compatibility

Web authors and developers using Netscape Navigator 3.0 can call up and execute commands from a Java applet or Javascript module into the Micrografx QuickSilver 3.0 plug-in through LiveConnect.

LiveConnect is a family of technologies for developing Internet and Intranet applications. LiveConnect encompasses Netscape Navigator plug-ins as well as facilities for integrating plug-ins with Java and Javascript. Plug-ins can be controlled by Java applets and by Javascript that is part of the containing HTML page.

What You Do

Developing Web content with Micrografx QuickSilver generally involves:

This document describes each of these tasks in detail.