Quanta toobar problem - [SOLVED]

[banjo]

I am using Quanta 3.1.1 on my Mandy 9.1

 

For the most part, this is a fine tool, but sometimes it

goes nuts.

 

In this instance, I have started a new project, added

files to it, and loaded the Standard toolbar to get

access to paragraph tags and image tags etc.

 

When I invoke the Img tag editor from the Standard

toolbar immediately after opening the project and

showing only the default Untitled1.html file, I get a

dialog box that will load an image and fetch the

size of it etc. Kewl. This works fine. This is the

dialog I have been using all along. It works great.

 

However, as soon as I click on one of the other

files to edit it, all my loaded toobars disappear.

Quanta reverts to the set of default toolbars.

So, I reload the Standard global toolbar. But

from then on the Img tag editor pops up a different

dialog box which does not seem to be able to

fetch the image size.

 

If I reload the project and start over, I get the

same behavior......... once I edit a file, all the

toolbars are gone and I am starting over again.

 

Anybody out there ever use Quanta? Any clue

as to what is causing this strange behavior?

How do these toolbars really work? Without

the toolbars the editor is fairly useless.

 

I have been using Quanta for over a year now

to do my web pages and I have not seen this

particular pattern before. But this is driving me

nuts, and I am about to give up on it and go

back to vi. This random behavior is maddening.

 

I have dug deep enough to go through most of

their xml files where the dialogs and actions are

defined, but I cannot figure out what the heck tells

it which dialog to pop up or which toolbar to load

or where it gets the toolbars from the project file

or personal .rc file or whatever it does........

 

Thanks in advance

Banjo

(_)=='=~

[banjo]

Well, I fixed it.

 

I don't know exactly what I did, but I got it to work.

 

This is one of those cases where I don't know how it

works, but by creating the project using different

parameters, it works.

 

Here is what I did.

 

I created the project again with the New Project wizard.

 

There is a crucial step in there that I passed over

the first time I created this project. On one of

the pages, a couple of menus are presented that allow

you to specify the types of files that are to be

created. The two items are:

 

Default DTD:

Create new files as:

 

They both default to "WML 1.2"

 

To make it work the way it used to, I changed both

of them to

 

"HTML 4.01 Transitional"

 

Then, I went past the "Add files" page, preferring

to do that manually later, and finished the creation

of the project.

 

Then, I went into Project=>Insert Files...

and selected all the files I needed. Then I went

into Project=>Insert Directory and inserted the image

directory.

 

Now, my project comes up just fine with my Standard

toolbar, and the toolbar sticks around when I edit my

files. I get the proper dialog box with my Img tag

as well. Life is good.

 

Sorry for the false alarm.

 

I would still like to hear from anybody who knows

how all this hangs together, but for now, I am back

on track. Once again I love my Quanta :woops: and

I love my Linux :woops:

 

Linux rocks!

 

Banjo

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P.S. How the heck do I edit the subject line so that

I can append [sOLVED] to it?

[Artificial Intelligence]

You press the edit button and write [sOLVED] in the headline(s).

[banjo]

Ok, well color me stupid............ :blush:

 

I could have sworn that I tried that and there was no

place to edit the subject line. I must have clicked

a different button or something.

 

That is what I get for staying up too late doing this

stuff. Thanks for pointing out the obvious to me.

Sometimes my brain goes out to lunch without me.

 

Banjo

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[Artificial Intelligence]

:D No problem! :)