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- HTML mode 2.0
- CSS mode 1.0 JavaScript mode 1.0.2
- Frontier menu 2.0
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- September 1997
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- Written by Johan Linde, jl@theophys.kth.se
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- At the end of this file there is a hypertext link which starts the
- installation. Please read this document before installing to avoid any
- problems. There are also a few things which you have to do manually.
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- It is extra important to read what the installer does, if you have written
- any code yourself for Alpha, to make sure you don't lose anything.
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- First of all: You need Alpha 6.51 or later to install this software.
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- What does the installer do?
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- • First a dialog window is opened. There you are asked which components
- you want to install. The available components are
- • HTML mode and CSS mode
- For editing HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) documents.
- • JavaScript mode
- For editing JavaScript documents.
- • Frontier menu
- Functions for using Alpha as Frontier's external editor.
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- HTML mode and CSS mode must be installed together because they share code.
- Therefore the old HTML mode is not compatible with CSS mode.
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- You are also asked if you want to make a backup of the currently installed
- version. Choose to make a backup of if you have made any changes to the
- code which you want to keep. If you don't make a backup the old files are
- deleted.
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- Consider this backup function as an extra feature usually not included in
- installers. My hope is that you will be happy with the new software.
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- • When you then click Install, Alpha first makes the backups you wanted.
- They are put in folders like HTML mode 1.4.1 backup inside Alpha's
- folder. See below how to do if you want to reinstall the old version.
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- • Alpha then installs the components you have selected.
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- If there are some files with the same names as the ones to install and
- which don't belong to the old version these files are put in a folder
- called Extra backup. This only happens if you have written any code
- yourself and the files happen to have the same names. Not very likely, I
- guess.
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- • Finally Alpha rebuilds the Tcl indices. This is used by Alpha to find in
- which files the various functions are.
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- • After installation you have to restart Alpha to use the new HTML mode etc.
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- Custom HTML elements
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- If you have added any custom HTML elements to HTML mode, these are also
- saved if you make a backup. The new version of HTML mode supports many new
- HTML elements and it's therefore very likely that some ot your custom
- elements are supported. If so, when you load the new HTML mode the first
- time Alpha will ask you if you would let it clean up the file with custom
- elements. You can safely do so. If you decide to go back to the previous
- version, the old custom elements are restored.
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- Documentation
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- The documentation is downloaded separately. When you have downloaded it put
- the folder, which is called HTML mode manual, inside Alpha's folder. (If you
- have an old manual remove it first.) Putting the manual inside Alpha's
- folder makes it possible to open it by selecting Help in the HTML menu.
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- Userland Frontier
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- To use Alpha as Frontier's external editor there are a few more things you
- have to do. After installation select Frontier Help from the system help
- menu for more information.
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- Menu icons
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- The file menu icons contains icons for the CSS menu and the Frontier
- Scripts menu. Use ResEdit to copy the resources into Alpha. If you don't
- know how to use ResEdit, don't try it. It's only two menu icons we're talking
- about and everything will work without them. If you don't install the icons
- the menus are simply called CSS and Scripts. If you copy the menu icons to
- Alpha then open the global prefs file (use Config -> Global -> Edit Prefs)
- and add the lines
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- set cssMenu •150
- set frontierScriptMenu •144
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- (144 and 150 are the resource numbers of the icons.)
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- As an extra bonus there are also four other icons in the file menu
- icons. They are the icons for Netscape Communicator, Internet Explorer,
- Cyberdog and MacLynx. Use any of them as menu icons for the two HTML menus
- (there are two menus now) if you like. To do this add lines like
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- set htmlMenu •num
- set htmlUtilsMenu •num
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- to your global prefs file, where num should be replaced by the resource
- number.
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- Reinstalling the old version from the backup folder
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- I you for one reason or another want to reinstall the old version, it can
- be installed from the backup folder in the same way as you make this
- installation. A copy of this file is put in the backup folder. Open it and
- start the installation by clicking the hypertext link at the end of it,
- just like your about to do now.
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- Ready to install?
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- If you have read the above information you are now ready to install.
- Note that you have to restart Alpha after installation.
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- CLICK TO INSTALL
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