Daktari 1.3
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Daktari Support
Online support for Daktari is provided on this web page. Here, you may browse some of the topics and tips about using Daktari and writing web pages.
Current versions of the Daktari Guide and Reference are available here.
The Reference bevel button on Daktari's main window provides links to excellent onlnine references for HTML 4.0, CSS and PHP. Questions and help beyond what this page provides are answered by email.
Support Topics:
Tip: sizing up images
When inserting images into your web pages, Daktari's image properties panel includes the image's width and height. If you change the width or height, Daktari maintains the image's aspect ratio, effectively scaling the image.
For example, an image is 128x128 pixels. The space in the web page is only 64 pixels wide. Change the width in the image properties dialog to "64" and click the height field (or press the tab key); the height is recalculated to 64.
Tip: keeping it all together
With Daktari, it's preferable to keep a web site's pages and images all in the same folder. This has some advantages:
-- All of a project's files are added to the library at once by choosing the project's folder.
-- Daktari inserts "relative" references to links and images; with these files already in the same folder, missing links are minimized.
-- When updating your web server, all the files will be in one place... the project folder!
-- Daktari cannot keep track of changes you make to folders in the Finder. If you make changes to a project folder from the Finder, you can easily and quickly update Daktari by clearing the project and then adding the folder again to the library.
Tip: uploading projects and files
The Upload... command is available when a project in the library is selected, or you are editing a web page. When a project is selected, Daktari uploads the entire contents of the project folder as a directory; any files outside of the project folder are not included (see "keeping it all together" above). When editing a web page, Daktari saves the page and uploads it to the directory path you specify.
The Upload... command asks for your domain's username, password, domain name and directory path. If you are creating a project's directory on the domain for the first time, you may leave the Path field empty and use the "New Directory" button to create the new directory. Always name the directories you create on the domain with the same names as your project folders. The path to the new directory will appear in the Path field, then click the "Upload" button to upload the project.
Daktari's Upload... command is not intended to be a replacement for a good file transfer client software, but as a convenience when you need to quickly upload web pages to the domain for testing during development.
Tip: how Daktari colorizes html
Daktari's editor colorizes the text of your web pages when you first open them and whenever you preview them in your web browser using the Daktari view icon.
Also, near the Reference bevel button is a "rainbow" colorizing button that will refresh the color of your web page text when clicked.
Tip: visibility with style
It's easy to show and hide the content of styles in a web page using changeObjectVisibility and getStyleObject function clips included with Daktari. View the functions of this support page's source to see how to use them. Note the showClips(x) function, where x is the "id name" of the object passed to it:
changeObjectVisibility("styleId","visible/hidden")