What type o Extension is needed?

What you want is implemented with what is called a Translator.

HTH,
Randy


> Hi Everyone - was wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. I
> am a coder but am trying to make a 'easy front end' for designers and so I
> immediatley thought of DW. The problem is that what I want to do does not jump
> out at me what technology to use for extending DW.
>
> I will explain what I want to achieve first:
>
> I would like to have a 'tag' with attributes that can be inserted into the
> Code view yet behave differently in the design view (in fact totally
> different). Perhaps an example. Lets say I make a tag called
>
> <myLogo sizeX="200" sizeY="150">
>
> I would like that to be inserted into the Code View yet the Design View would
> have something like
>
> <div class="myLogo" style="width: 200px; height: 150px">Logo</div>
>
> So in essence the design view would allow the designer a representation of
> what would be there once the server has parsed the <myLogo> - and so they can
> do the styling. with normal css. This is not a real example - I am trying to
> simplify it a bit (A real one woudl be something like <mySearchResults> and it
> puts out a dummy search result for them to style) I guess I am trying to
> emulate a language in a way - I put in my tag and the design view spits out the
> html it would generate.
>
> What I have looked at so far in extending DW
>
> I was thinking that Tags would be the way to go - but it seems you can only
> return what is going to be in both the Design and Code window. There was a
> glimmer of hope with the component documentation as it seems to differentiate
> between the Code View and Design View with the 'getCodeViewDropCode()' API and
> the 'handleDesignViewDrop()' - But it is not immediately obvious that this is
> what I should use. Also i seems to know about different DOMS for boh Code and
> Design (allowing them to be sync'ed or not)
>
> I basically want to do two things I keep going back to inserting a table in DW
> where the Design View is able to have the little green sizing arrows and the
> display pushing and pulling of cells - all of which could be done in javascript
> and then repopulate the code view with updated code OR the other way around do
> something in the code and somehoe it repopulates the Design view.
>
> I believe I am looking for some hidden file that the Design view uses to
> render for the component. And leave the Code view alone
>
> I sure hope that makes some sense - I would really appreciate someone pointing
> me in the right direction here - as I am getting a little frustrated trying to
> find what I want to do
>
> Thanks
>
> Really appreciate any replies
>