Writing Actions for Freeway
...t you can't add through Freeway's interface, then writing an Action to add the content is the way to...soon. If you are having any problems with writing actions,
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Tech Note 16 - Writing 'Block Actions'
...block of code to display some results. If you are writing actions for php, FileMaker, or other actio...
Tech Note 6 - Adding Database Markup to HTML Attributes
There are situations where when writing actions where you want to have attributes that are generated...
Tech Note 9 - File Parameters and File Objects
The JavaScript API facilitates the reading and writing of files. This document goes some way to explaining the interrelation of files, file parameters, uploading and related matters. Download the Tech...
Tech Note 1 - Getting & Setting HTML Attributes
... the page prior to physically generating the HTML file. This tree structure is available to Freeway actions and can be accessed and manipulated using JavaScript. Download this Tech Note for more.
Tech Note 10 - Disclosure Triangles
Freeway 3.1 introduced the disclosure triangles as a new Interface element. This may be added to your Freeway Actions using the new tag. Download the PDF to learn more.
Tech Note 15 - Action-Library
Freeway 3.1 introduced mechanism for actions to share mark-up. This is achieved through the use of . Mark-up that is written within a library-action can be shared by all actions that are created withi...
Tech Note 2 - Getting & Setting <div> Style Attributes
Using JavaScript it is possible to get all or any of the <div> tags on your page. Download this Tech Note to learn more.
Tech Note 12 - Adding CSS Style Definitions
Freeway 3.1 introduced a new method fwAddCSSStyles to the class FWTag which will find or add a CSS style enclosure. Download the Tech Note to learn more.
Actions API Reference
...that are available in the Freeway Actions API. If you are just starting out and want to learn about writing Actions we recommend using the Writing Actions manual first.
The document is mostly compl...
Tech Note 18 - Localizing Actions II
Freeway 4 Pro supports multiple localization meaning that one copy of Freeway can be used in many languages. The language used is based on the language you have Mac OS set to. If Actions have been cre...
Tech Note 3 - Localising Freeway Actions
...igned for localisation. To accommodate this multiple localisation of the same product the Freeway 3 actions language was extended to make it possible to produce Freeway Actions with multiple localisat...
Tech Note 8 - Generating JavaScript
Many interesting Freeway Actions generate JavaScript. They insert code JavaScript into the HTML. This JavaScript will then provide interesting additional behaviours to the web-page. The oldest example...
Tech Note 11 - Correct Text Styling in Inline Actions
The styling of actions that insert inline text into Freeway can behaves in unexpected ways in Freeway 3.0. This Tech Note describes a way that you can deal with this. Download the Tech Note to learn m...
Tech Note 13 - Triggering Slave Groups
Freeway 2.0 introduced the idea of slave groups to facilitate the interaction of actions on pages and across frame-sets. The concept of a slave group is quite simple. The slave group represents a set ...
Tech Note 17 - Using fwParametersCreated
Freeway 3.5 Pro introduced a new user function fwParametersCreated this is called whenever parameters are created for an instance of an Action. The fwParametersCreated user function as been added so ...
Tech Note 5 - Custom Slave (Target) Functions
Many of the Actions that are supplied with Freeway can be combined so that they work as Triggers and Targets (formerly called Slaves). This method of communication is open and as an Action author you ...
Tech Note 7 - Adding Mark-up to Table Rows
In many situations when working with Databases it is desirable to add mark-up to table rows. Generally you want to add mark-up that will cause a one or more table rows to be repeated for a number of r...
Tech Note 14 - Freeway Generated Layout Tables
Freeway 3.5.5 has opened the layout table generated by Freeway to the actions developer. Previously any changes that you wanted to make to the layout table could only be made by searching through raw ...
Live Preview in Actions
One of the many new exciting features of Freeway 5 is the ability to see a live preview of Actions in Freeway's Page view. This can be seen in the following core Actions: The Blogger Suite CSS Menus...