This guide tells you how to develop plug-ins that extend the HTML-editing functionality of the Composer and Mail Compose windows in Communicator 4.0. It is a developer's guide and complete reference to the Composer Plug-in API, which is written in Java.
Communicator 4.0 -- September 1997
This chapter provides basic information you'll need as you develop Composer plug-ins. It describes Composer plug-ins from both the user's and programmer's points of view, tells how Composer plug-ins work in the Composer interface, introduces the Composer Plug-in API, and describes the sample plug-ins included in the Composer Plug-in Kit.
This chapter presents the Composer Plug-in class library and describes all of the steps involved in developing Composer Plug-ins, from writing the Java class to packaging, installation, and testing. Go through the tutorial in this chapter to create a basic Composer Plug-in.
This chapter describes using the Composer Plug-in API token interface to read and write to an HTML document.
This chapter describes using Composer Plug-in methods to tokenize and select text, tags, and images for the plug-in to act upon.
This chapter describes using the Composer Plug-in methods that read and write raw HTML, or HTML that is not tokenized.
This chapter shows how to use Composer Plug-in methods to write plug-ins that can add images and files to a document, or remove them, by either constructing or deleting HTML tags.
This chapter describes using Composer Plug-in methods to write plug-ins that can reference and use URLs.
This chapter describes using the Java Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) or Netscape Internet Foundation Classes (IFC) to add dialog boxes, and, by extension, other user interface elements, to your plug-ins. Go through the tutorial in this chapter to create a plug-in that just displays a dialog box.
This chapter describes event handler plug-ins and the events that can trigger plug-in execution.
This chapter describes developing and using image encoders and compares them with other Composer Plug-ins.
To help you familiarize yourself with the Composer Plug-in API as quickly as possible, this reference lists Composer Plug-in classes by package membership.
Download and use the latest version of the Composer Plug-in Kit.
Last Updated: 07/16/97 14:36:53
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