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Web Monkey Pages

Navigation a-la those crazy folks at HotWired

This fat web page contains the wmPages script object. Use the 'Get Page Data' command from the Scripts menu to copy wmPages into your object database. Also available: info about fat pages and the Terms under which you can use this script.

Web Monkey's Tutorial Navigation

The Webmonkey site has really improved, with really great articles and tutorials. I admire their navigation for tutorials-- at the bottom of every page there's a list of all the pages in the tutorial, so you can jump around easily (Just like Jakob Nielson says).

Anyway, when it came time to put a tutorial toolkit together for the "Script Meridian" website, I wanted to have the same kind of navigation.

For a sample, take a look at the bottom of this tutorial page.

How to use the wmPages macro

wmPages creates a list of links in the current table that begin with a user-defined prefix.

You define that prefix in the required parameter called objprefix.

For example, the macro on the Script Meridian ODB tutorial looks like this:

{wmPages ("theRoot")}

The macro indexes all the pages in that table that begin with "theRoot".

You can see the results on the tutorial page.

Parameters

wmPages (objprefix, lineStart="Page ", lineNumbers=true, prefixEnd=":", linkStart="", linkEnd="", lineEnd="<br>r" )

The rest of the parameters give you a very fine level of control over the output. Experiment with these to see what they do. Have fun!

Notes

Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 6:05:36 PM: The inevitable, stupid, post-release bug fix.

Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 6:00:38 AM: First release

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