TDB2Web - Dialogues

Note: The following paragraphs are not intended as a full reference. They do only explain developer's specific functions.

Four visual dialogues are provided (Shareware version three):


Setup

This is the main dialogue where to setup all general options.

General settings

File names may appear either red or green colored. The general meaning should be clear.

Pattern file

For further information how to create and/or prepare a pattern file, see Prepare a pattern file

Output file

When specifying an output file you do specify the output directory at the same time. If you enter a non-existing directory in the file-open-dialogue, this directory will be created.

See also: General file naming and Output restrictions

Page Output

Selecting All columns means, that all fields of the current database, whose Visible-state is set to True, are exported.

If you select Use definition the Edit...-button will be enabled. If you miss this button on your page, it means that there is no definition (to be more precise: no definition file in the current directory), and you have to create it. The creation dialogue appears after you clicked Ok.

Page Table attributes

Frame / Rules

These options are taken from upcoming HTML 4.0-version and will have no effect on current NetScape version 4.02, but they will be interpreted by IE 3.0.

Page Column attributes

Page Graphic Options

If you decide to access graphics via thumbnail you should give such a thumbnail; see below.

Page Additional Options

Thumbnails

The graphic interface we use has obviously some problems with small GIF-files, so better try it with JPEG's.

You may also select other formats. Though they will not appear in your browser, you can click on the image area to view the memo file.

If the browser does not find the file, the image will be empty and/or replaced by a browser default.

See also: Graphics treatment and/or Memo treatment


Table caption

This dialogue allows to alter the properties of the table caption.

Anchor name

In order to Access the table from elsewhere (a link within the pattern file or a different file) you may give it a unique name.

The pick-list contains all orphan links (all links pointing to nowhere) which could be found in the pattern file.


Select HTML-browser

This dialogue allows to tell the program which browser it should use to view the created HTML-page.

Browser name

You may enter not only the browser's executable name but appropriate command line arguments. You can tell Navigator for instance by adding the string -edit to load the the file directly into its composer if you plan to publish the page.

If you selected the External browser option while this field is empty the in-build browser will be used.


Column Definition

This dialogue allows to create the layout of the exported table, i.e. you can select the columns and their order, and you can alter some properties.

None of the changes you make in this dialogue take any effect on the given datasource.

More information about this dialogue you will find here.