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The Preview
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Wikidpad translates texts and other Wikidpad elements on a page into html and uses that to show the page in preview. The previewer in fact is a small web browser. It shows the page as it will approximately look in the (real) browser after publishing (exporting) it to html.
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Excluding page attibutes
Normally not only the page text is shown in preview, but also all the attributes that are on it. Some attributes can be usefull in preview, some however - like "tree_position" - really aren't. The option: "Props. to yes/no include in preview" (See: "Settings" below) allows to control which attributes should or shouldn't be shown in preview.
In the option input field enter a regular expression of the properties that are to be shown in preview. The RE is tested against a "normalized" property where the brackets are removed and key and value are separated by ": ". So even if the property is in the page written as "[camelCaseWordsEnabled=false]", the RE is tested against "camelCaseWordsEnabled: false".
If you e.g. want to show the "alias" properties only, enter "alias: .* ". Other properties will then be hidden in the preview. The empty text field matches everything.
If you want to show all properties except those matching the RE, tick the checkbox to the left of the "not".
If you press the "Ok" button of the options dialog, but the dialog doesn't vanish, instead this text field is red, then the RE contains an error and must be corrected first.
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Preview renderer
Under Windows you can choose the renderer for the HTML preview:
Internal: Internal standard renderer. Not very capable, but it
doesn't need external componentsIE: Uses Internet Explorer.Mozilla: Uses Mozilla/Gecko rendering component if installed.
You can download it here:
http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm. There seems to be
a severe bug that crashes WikidPad when pressing any key while
the Mozilla preview is shown!
Changes of this setting only have an effect for newly opened WikidPad windows. After changing this setting, Wikidpad will have to be restarted.
Mozilla and IE renderer use a CSS-file located in the configuration directory (see "Help" menu -> "About" and scroll to the end to find out where it is), subfolder ".WikidPadGlobals", file "wikipreview.css".
Using IE or Mozilla as renderers means that any weaknesses of
these browsers (esp. regarding security) become part of
WikidPad. If e.g. a wiki page contains dangerous scripts in
JavaScript they might be executed when showing the page.If you chose Mozilla and the component is not installed,
WikidPad will crash when opening a new window (or when
restarting WikidPad). If this happens, try to start WikidPad
again. It should then use the internal renderer instead.
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Settings
Options
Application settings: Html preview
• Font name for html preview
Enter the desired font name for the HTML preview. Clicking on the "..." button shows a list of available fonts.
• Show pics as links in preview
If this option is checked, links to image URLs (those ending with .png, .gif or .jpg) are shown like other links in the preview. If it is unchecked, the images (if available) are shown.
• Props. to yes/no include in preview
A regular expression for the properties to be shown in HTML preview or not. See ThePreview.
• Preview renderer
Under Windows you can choose the renderer for the HTML preview. See ThePreview and HtmlFormatting.
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Application settings: HTML header
These options have the same meaning and values as the global and local html attributes; see there for details.
The options set the application defaults and are overridden by the global and local attributes.
These settings will be inserted in the html pages as attributes of "<body>"-tag.
• Link color
• Active link color
• Visited link color
• Text color
• Background color
• Background image
• Doctype
Sets the DOCTYPE to use in the header of an HTML file. You should only modify it if you understand what it is doing.
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