What's New?

Please see the readme.txt file in the Araneae directory for a complete history of updates. This list is also available at this page.


Tips and Tricks
Araneae Tips and Tricks

Did you know:

- You can drag and drop images into your HTML documents?

- You can right-click drag and drop any file to create a link to that file?

- You can bookmark positions in large files by pressing SHIFT-CTRL and a number from 0-9?

- You can return to bookmarked positions by pressing CTRL and a number from 0-9?

- You can comment out blocks of selected text by pressing CTRL-F1?

- You can quickly switch between open document by pressing ALT-RIGHT and ALT-LEFT?

- You can drag and drop multiple documents onto the Araneae window?


HTML References

Here is a list of great HTML references. These are links to external sites on the Internet.

The Bare Bones Guide to HTML

Webmonkey HTML Cheatsheet

Web Design Group HTML Listing

The W3C HTML 4.01 Specifications

Microsoft HTML Reference (Heavily IE biased)


Contacting the Author

If you have any comments or suggestions regarding Araneae, I'd love to hear them! Araneae wouldn't be where it is today if it weren't for emails from users like you. I try to respond to each email personally, and even if I don't get the chance to respond, I can guarentee that your email has been read.

Mark McIntyre

Email: mark_m@v-wave.com

Webpage:http://plaza.v-wave.com/mark


Voluntary Registration

If you use Araneae and find it helpful, I'd appreciate it if you register. Araneae took many hours to get where it is today and, with your support, it will continue to improve. The asking price is only $20.00 US.

Visit my Araneae Registration page to register:

http://plaza.v-wave.com/mark/products/register.html

To assure safety, registration is taken place through the `Register Now!' service. They allow you to pay via the internet, phone, fax, or even regular mail. You can visit their page at http://www.regnow.com/ if you have any questions regarding how orders are handled.

Thank you for your support,

Mark McIntyre


Legal Information

This program is provided "As is", with no guarantees of usefulness or productivity. The author, Mark McIntyre, bears no responsibility for damage to your system resulting from the use of this program.

You may not: disassemble, reverse engineer, recompile, decompile or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the Program; remove, obscure or alter any notice of copyright or other proprietary right present on or in the Program; or permit or authorize anyone else to take any action described in this sentence.

If you do not agree with these terms, you must uninstall the program. Use of the program implicitly means you have agreed to these terms.

This document is (c) Copyright 1998-2001 by Mark McIntyre

Araneae is (c) Copyright 1998-2001 by Mark McIntyre

All Rights Reserved


Special Thanks

I would like to thank all the people who have registered Araneae over the past two years. Araneae would not be where it is today if it wasn't for support from you!

I would also like to extend my thanks to the individuals who took time to translate Araneae into other languages. In alphabetical order:

- Andrew Mishustin for the Russian translation.

- Antonio Bueno-Delgado for the Spanish translation.

- Marino de Stena for the Italian translation.

- Martin Rebane for the Estonian translation.

- Ricardo Garcia for the Portuguese translation.

- Simon Trahan for the French translation.

- Volker Mische for the German translation.

- Yuval Kaplan for the Hebrew translation.

Finally, I would like to thank all the users who have emailed me suggestions. Many of the current features have been ones suggested by users like you.


Tag Colours
Tag Colours:

Click the coloured button to select the colour in which you would like the corresponding tag(s) to be displayed.


Default Colours
Default Colours:

Click this button to reset all the tags to their default colours. This operation can be undone by clicking the Cancel button.


The Options Screen
Araneae Options

Options

- Options List

Colours

- Tag Colours

- Default Colours

Environment

- Font

- Syntax Highlighting

- Display Gutter

- Display Toolbar

- Display Statusbar

- Flat Toolbars

Editor Behaviour

- Word Wrap

- Automatic Indentation

- Insert Caret Anywhere

- Use Lowercase Tags

- Tab Size

Document Template

- Document Template

HTML Viewers

- Add

  - Name

  - Location

- Remove

- Edit

  - Name

  - Location

Preferences

- Add 'Edit with Araneae' option to HTML files

- Prompt for web-safe colours

- Save Format


Syntax Highlighting
Syntax Highlighting:

Check this box if you would like Araneae to display the various HTML tags in different colours. This can make reading and programming your documents much easier.


Display Gutter
Display Gutter:

Check this box if you would like the gutter (line numbers) displayed. Uncheck it to hide the gutter.


Display Toolbar
Display Toolbar:

Check this box if you would like the toolbar (icons) to be displayed on the screen. Uncheck this box to hide the toolbar.


Display Statusbar
Display Statusbar:

Check this box if you would like the statusbar displayed at the bottom of the screen.


Flat Toolbars
Flat Toolbars:

Uncheck this box if you would like the toolbar buttons to take a raised (3D) look. This is merely an aesthetic preference.


Font
Font:

Click the elipsis button (...) to select the font in which you would like your documents to appear.


Word Wrap
Word Wrap:

Check this box if you would like long lines to be wrapped automatically. This eliminates horizontal scrolling, but may make your documents harder to understand.


Automatic Indentation
Automatic Indentation:

Check this box if you would like Araneae to automatically indent the caret to the same position as the previous line. This is very useful if you like to structure your documents.


Insert Caret Anywhere
Insert Caret Anywhere:

Check this box if you would like the caret (text cursor) to automatically move to the position you click with your mouse, even if there is no text in that region. If you begin typing, spaces will be inserted as necessary to ensure the location is consistent.


Use Lowercase Tags
Use Lowercase Tags:

Check this box if you would like all automatically inserted tags (such as the ones inserted when you drag an image onto your document) to be in lowercase. If this box is unchecked, these tags will be inserted in ALL CAPS.


Tab Size
Tab Size:

This option specifies the number of spaces by which each tab is represented. Set this option to a lower value if you think the tabs are too large.


Document Template
Document Template:

This box contains the text that is automatically inserted into each new document. This text is freely editable.


Add
Add:

Click this button to add another HTML viewer to the list.


Edit
Edit:

Click this button to edit the currently selected HTML viewer.


Remove
Remove:

Click this button to remove the currently selected HTML viewer from the list. This action can not be undone.


Add 'Edit with Araneae' option to HTML files
Add 'Edit with Araneae' option to HTML files:

Check this box if you would like a 'Edit with Araneae' context-menu item to appear when you right-click an HTML file from within Windows Explorer.


Prompt for web-safe colours
Prompt for web-safe colours:

Check this box if you would like Araneae to alert you when you try to insert a colour that is not from the standard web-safe palette.


Save Format
Save Format:

This option lets you choose between the different linebreak formats used by different operating systems. Windows uses the carrige-return, linefeed convention; UNIX uses the linefeed convention; Macintosh uses the carrige-return convention.


Araneae Help

Program Information

- What's New?

- Checking for Updates

- Contacting the Author

- Voluntary Registration

- Legal Information

- Special Thanks

Using Araneae

- Tips and Tricks

- The Options Screen

- The Find Dialog

- The Replace Dialog

- The Image Dialog

- The Link Dialog

- The Websafe Colour Dialog

- The Font Dialog

Webpage Help

- HTML References


Name
Name:

In this box, type a descriptive name of the HTML viewer you would like to add. This is soley so you can identify the browser by a descriptive term, rather than the executable name.Example: "Netscape 6"


Location
Location:

Type the location of the HTML viewers executable in this box. If you cannot rember this offhand, click the 'open' button displayed to the right.


Find What?
Find What?:

Type the text you would like to find in this box. A list of the most recent finds is also available by clicking the drop-down box.


Replace With
Replace With:

Type the text that you would like the above Find What? term to be replaced with. A list of recent replaces is available by clicking the drop-down box.


Search all open documents
Search all open documents:

Check this box if you would like the search/replace to occur over all the open documents. This is useful if you would like to make a change over your entire website. For example: replacing a 'Copyright 2000' notice with 'Copyright 2000-2001'.


Match whole word only
Match whole word only:

Check this box if you would like to only find results that match the entire word, and not a substring. For instance, if this box is checked when you are searching for the term "we", "weekend" will not be found.


Case sensitive
Case sensitive:

Check this box if you would like your search to be case sensitive. This means that a search for "Hello" will not find "hello" in your document, because the first 'h' is not a capital letter.


Direction
Direction:

This group of options lets you specify the direction of the search relative to the cursor position.


Find Next
Find Next:

Clicking this button will highlight the next occurance of Find What? in your document.


Replace All
Replace All:

Clicking this box will replace all occurances of Find What? with Replace With.


The Find Dialog

- Find What?

- Search all open documents

- Match whole word only

- Case sensitive

- Direction

- Find Next


The Replace Dialog

- Find What?

- Replace With

- Search all open documents

- Match whole word only

- Case sensitive

- Direction

- Find Next

- Replace

- Replace All


Replace
Replace:

Clicking this button will replace the selected text with the text in Find What?. It will then highlight the next occurance of Find What? for you.


The Image Dialog

- Image

- Caption

- Width

- Height


Image
Image:

Type the URL of the image you would like to insert into this box. If the image is on your hard drive, you can click the 'open' button to pick the file using an open dialog. The document-relative URL will be determined automatically.


Caption
Caption:

Type the text you would like to appear when a user hovers his/her mouse over this image.


Width
Width:

Type the width of this image in pixels. If you have opened an image via the 'open' button, this will be determined automatically.


Height
Height:

Type the height of this image in pixels. If you have opened an image via the 'open' button, this will be determined automatically.


The Link Dialog

- HREF

- Link Text


HREF
HREF:

Type the URL of the link into this box. You can select a file to link to by clicking the open button.


Link Text
Link Text:

Type the text by which you would like the link to be represented into this box.


Options List
Options List:

Select an item to display the corresponding options.


The Websafe Colour Dialog

- Use my selected colour

- Use the closest web-safe colour

- Remember this action


Use my selected colour
Use my selected colour:

Select this option if you want to use the exact colour you specified.


Use the closest web-safe colour
Use the closest web-safe colour:

Select this option if you would like to insert the web-safe colour Araneae has chosen for you. It is recommended that you choose this option.


Remember this action
Remember this action:

Check this box if you would like Araneae to memorize this action and stop displaying this dialogue box in the future.


The Font Dialog

- Font Face

- Font Size

- Font Colour


Font Face
Font Face:

Select the font face you would like to use in your tag. If you do not want a specific font face to be used, do not select a font. If you would like to select a font that is not installed on your system, you can type a name into the box provided.


Font Size
Font Size:

Select the font size from the box. If you would like to specify an alternate size, you may type one into the box provided.


Font Colour
Font Colour:

Type the colour you would like your font to be displayed in into this box. If you are unusure which colour you would like to use, press the 'colour' button to the right.


Checking for Updates

Araneae updates can be downloaded from the Araneae homepage at: http://plaza.v-wave.com/mark/products/araneae.html