modifying application entities?

naglists · ‎Apr 12, 2007

I would like to modify, dynamically per doctype, a menu string defined in editorpath/custom/lib/dialogStrings.ent. Specifically, E3ComposeText. I want it to reflect the value of the option peserverurl, so instead of saying, "Composing on PE Server" it would say, "Composing on PE Server, peserverurl" where peserverurl was populated with option(peserverurl)'s output.

None of the entity functions (declare_, create_, or modify_text_entity) change the behavior of that dialog. I'm sure it's because those functions speak to entities within the current document. Bummer.

Has anyone ever modified one one of those entities dynamically? How did you do it?

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Paul Nagai

lhales · ‎Apr 13, 2007

Paul,

The file you are looking at is just the replacement text that is used elsewhere. By adding the command there, you aren't going to influence the action, just what appears in the dialog.

Take a look at this file and then start tracking down the commands from there

lib\dialogs\e3compose.xml

Lynn

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sylvain.castong2 · ‎Apr 16, 2007

class=395173520-16042007>Hello everybody,

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class=395173520-16042007>Instead of usingradio buttons to list a certain
number of choices. For example:

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class=395173520-16042007>readvar -prompt 'Select common attributes:'
\

-prompt 'Language' -choice
\

'DEU|EN|FIN|FR|ITA|NL|NOR|PT-BR|SP|SVE' var_lang \

class=395173520-16042007>Is there a way to list the choices in a dropdown list
(e.g., with XUI)? The idea is to have a cleaner and more user friendly
selection of choices. Radio buttons is ok for a very small set of
choices.

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class=395173520-16042007>Thanks in
advance.

class=395173520-16042007>Sylvain Castonguay

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