Showing a Dialog at Startup

Thanks, Joris.

That's an interesting work around. I'll give it a try.

Leif

"leifw" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I'm running DW CS3 for Windows. I'm trying to write an extension which
> will
> show a dialog at start up. The "Extending Dreamweaver" manual says, "If
> you
> place a command file in the Configuration/Startup folder, the command runs
> as
> Dreamweaver starts up." I've done that. That code runs. It also says,
> "You
> can also show warnings, prompt the user for information, or call the
> dreamweaver.runCommand() function." Calling dreamweaver.runCommand()
> doesn't
> seem to work. I can put the same code in a command that is executed after
> startup and it works fine, but within my startup command, it seems like
> Dreamweaver just ignores my calls to runCommand().
>
> Quite specifically, my startup command contains:
> alert('before');
> dreamweaver.runCommand('myCommand.htm');
> alert('alert');
>
> I see the "before" and "after" alerts, but I don't see the dialog defined
> in
> myCommand.htm.
>
> Do you have a suggestion?
>
> Thanks,

Just checking: your dialog command page DOES contain a form, I recall a form
tag in the html file being required to show any dialog at all.