Working With...

Robert Nickel <robert@artnickel.com>

Reviewer: Christopher Hornbaker
Reviewer: Fabrice Mous

This chapter describes the parts of Quanta Plus that you will be interacting with mostly. These not only make your more productive, but they also allow you to customize Quanta Plus to your work-flow.

Toolbars

As previously mentioned, toolbars in Quanta Plus are primarily managed through the Toolbars menu. Usability and creation are somewhat different. The creation of toolbars is discussed in a later section entitled “Creating Toolbars.”

Using toolbars is quite simple. When you click on an icon for a desired element or action, one of three possibilities occur: the element is inserted (optionally with a closing element); or an element dialog is activated, allowing you to fill in the attributes in a dialog box; or, lastly, an action is activated and does something nifty for your current file or project. If you find yourself doing tedious and redundant typing for a particular element, that is not in Quanta Plus, then you can add it. See the section called “Document Type Editing Package (DTEP)” for more information.

A tag dialog looks just like the following:


An example of a tag dialog.


The above image is the dialog for the anchor tag. If you know XHTML™, then you should have noticed that all the attributes that you can use, in an anchor element, are available. Notice the tabs above for Main, Core and i18n, Events, and Focus, they hold all of the other attributes, according to their purpose, available to the anchor element. All you need do is: fill in the blanks for the attributes you want in your anchor, omit the attributes you do not want, and click OK. You now have a well formed anchor set down at the current cursor position.