Robert Nickel

robert@artnickel.com

Christopher Hornbaker

chrishornbaker@earthlink.net

Reviewer Fabrice Mous

fabrice@kde.nl

Reviewer The &quantaplus; project wizard ( Project New Project ) makes project creation an easy task. The Project Wizard. The fields are pretty straight forward. It is best to fill them in from top to bottom. Filling in a project name will autocomplete all the folder structure for the rest of the project. All of the paths and author information fields can be configured later on clicking F7 Project Project Options . Name Here you fill in the name for your project. For example, we will call ours foo. When you fill in Name, File is filled out for you automatically. File This is the name of the &quantaplus; project file. By default, it is the name of your project, but in lowercase letters and without spaces. It uses the extension webprj (&pex; foo.webprj). This file is stored in the root of the project's Main Folder. Server Settings Protocol Here you select the protocol you will be using to access you project. If your project is on the same machine that you are using Quanta Plus on, then leave the value at Local. The list of protocols shown here is dependant of your system setup. Available protocols include SSH, FTP, NFS, SMB, WebDAV, and many others. The protocol list is powered by &kde;'s powerful KIOSlave architecture. This framework allows every &kde; application to easily access remote information as if it is local to the machine. Host Here you fill in the server address of the machine you want to access, unless you are working through the Local protocol. Either a hostname (hostname.example.com) or an IP address (127.0.0.1) can go here. User User name for logging onto the remote machine. This is case-sensitive. Password Password for logging onto the remote machine. This is case-sensitive Port Leave this field blank to use the default port for the protocol you are using. You may need to change this depending on your server's configuration. Folder Settings Main Folder This is the root folder where all of the project files and folders will be stored. Templates Folder This is where the templates for this project will be stored. By default, its path is: Main Folder/templates; for example /home/johndoe/projects/example_project/templates. If you have a common set of files that you use for several projects, then it may be useful to point this field to it, instead of to the default. Toolbars Folder This is where the toolbars for this project will be stored. By default, it is Project destination /toolbars. If you have a common set of toolbars that you use for several projects, it may be useful to point this there instead of the default. Project Sources Add local or remote files This allows you to get files from the local file system. You can choose multiple files or entire folders. Use wget to download files from site This option is great if you have static web content that you wish to download and modify. For server side scripting (&pex; &PHP;, Python, &etc;.) you will have to get the files another way. Insert file from Check this if you wish to include files found in the path of the Main Folder. Leave unchecked when starting a project from scratch. Filters Insert only markup, script, and image files Choosing this option will only insert markup, script, and image files into your project. Insert files with the following mask Choosing this option will display all files and folders within the Main Folder and allow you to be more specific with your choices. Included files This displays a list of the files in the Main Folder. You can choose the desired files for inclusion, by checking, or exclusion, by unchecking, in your project. Author Insert your name (or alias) here. Email The address where you would like email regarding this project to go. Project Defaults Default DTD Choose the markup language you will be working with the most within this project. Default encoding Choose the character encoding you wish the files in your project to be opened and saved with. Use preview prefix Check this to use a prefix for your previews. This allows you to set the path prefix to something other than your local file system. This is most useful for pages that contain dynamic content and are dependent on server processing (like &PHP;, JSS, Python, &etc;). Simply type in the first portion of the address as it exists on that server and the filepath at the end will be complete by &quantaplus;. For example, if you have the domain bar.com and you are editing the index.html page, you could edit it on your remote machine (foo.bar.com), upload it to the server and press F6 to see the results from www.bar.com instead of your local file system. Prefix Enter the prefix you wish to use here. Insert global templates This makes a copy of the global templates in your projects folder tree. Insert local templates This makes a copy of the local templates in your projects folder tree. The last screen of the new project wizard has 3 settings that can make your life easier. These settings are available for change from the Project Project Options menu tree on the Network Tab or with the keyboard shortcut F7. By default &quantaplus; will open the last project accessed when launched. This behavior is not currently configurable. To open another project, select Open from the Project menu or the Open Project icon on the toolbar. The open project dialog will pop up and allow you to choose the project you wish. Projects have a webprj extension. When closing &quantaplus;, your project file will be saved automatically. You will be asked to save any changes before exiting if &quantaplus; detects any changed files. This same behavior occurs if you load a new project. The project tree view gives you uncluttered access to the files in your project. This is where you manage the files in the current project. For files, a &BDS; click brings up the following menu: These items are fairly self-explanatory and will be left to the reader for exploration. Folders are similar but do not contain the Open With and Open in &quantaplus; &BDS; menu items: These items are left to the reader for exploration as well. The Upload Projects dialog: The Upload Projects dialog. Host This is the hostname of the server your copying the files to. Either fully qualified domain name, or an IP address will work. Protocol Transfer protocol to use for this upload. Depending on your version of &kde; this list will vary. At the very least you should be able to choose from &FTP;, file (&cad; local) and NFS. Port Port for the transfer. Usually this will not need to be changed unless your network administrator is hosting a service on a port other than its well known port. User User name to use for authentication. Password Password to use for authentication. Keep Password Depending on your level of paranoia, this is a time saving feature, or a danger. Use it at your discretion. The password is kept on disk in plain text. Path This is the base path on the remote host that you will be copying files to. Upload Start the upload Cancel This will abort your transfer in progress or just exit out of the dialog if you change your mind before starting the upload. All Select all files in your project for upload. Modified Select all modified files for upload. None Unselects all files in the list. Invert Selects/Unselects all files in the list. Expand All Expands all folders. Collaspe All Collaspes all folders. Update All Refreshes list.