Javascript example tutorial (19) Use hotmetal (3)

Use Javascript in hotmetal

3. What kind of resources are suitable for script writing?

When using hotmetal Pro 6.0 to write macros, you can use the following resources:

Predefined events

Hotmetal Pro 6.0 defines several events and special user-defined macros to process them. These macros should be named based on hotmetal commands. For example, the macro on_application_open is called every time hotmetal Pro 6.0 is opened. You need to define the macro and add it to the macro/hotmetal. MCR file. All the special macros will be involved in this tutorial.

General document editing interface

There are a total of 8 interfaces to simulate the hotmetal graphic user interface, as shown below:

Application

Document

Documents

Documentproperty

Documentproperties

Selection

Range

Font

Document Object Model

Hotmetal uses the Document Object Model (DOM, Document Object Model. Dom is a standard model used to access elements in a webpage.

Command line interface

Hotmetal provides an interface for its menu bar, which is similar to a user-defined menu bar.

COM Object

Hotmetal Pro 6.0 supports three COM objects, which are defined in hmextras. dll:

Hmextras. filedlg allows you to access the file dialog box, which has rich commands (such as Save and saveas );

Hmextras. buttonmaker allows you to create a menu button;

Hmextras. colorchooser allows you to select the menu bar color