In this chapter, we have touched on a variety of very different topics and, on occasion, it sometimes seemed as if we were writing another book altogether We've covered wizards, Developer Studio customization and finally, and most importantly, scriptlets. We also provided more than an introductory sample. To summarize what has been presented here, let's start from the end—that is from the BitmapAnchor component.
It is not a simple Web object, since it exploits a large part of the DHTML functionality. It allows you to set the background color and different images for the various states of the element. If you observe it in action, you'll find it is very similar to the Windows flat toolbars. Such a component is not frequent on the Web, but it is quite simple to write with DHTML and the scriptlet's technology allows you to write it once and reuse it forever.
However, the major part of the chapter focused on other topics. Our purpose was to build a comfortable environment to write scriptlets. We outlined the main features of the ideal IDE for scriptlets and then tried to put them into practice within the Developer Studio IDE. Why DevStudio? Mainly because of its advanced features for text editing and browsing. While it is not a visual editor, it does provide you with some very specific characteristics which you won't find in most authoring tools.
In particular, we've shown you how to:
In the next chapter we'll turn back to scriptlets programming, specifically focusing on the parent environment a scriptlet can inherit.