The Quanta Plus project wizard (->) 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 -> (Shift+F7).
General Project Settings
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.
This is the name of the Quanta Plus project file. By default, it is the
name of your project, but in lowercase letters and without spaces. It
uses the extension webprj
(for example,
foo.webprj
). This file is stored in the root of the
project's Main Folder.
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 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.
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 name for logging onto the remote machine. This is case-sensitive.
Password for logging onto the remote machine. This is case-sensitive.
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.
This is the root folder where all of the project files and folders will be stored.
This is where the templates for this project will be stored. It is a relative path to the project and by default,
it points to
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.
This is where the toolbars for this project will be stored. It is a relative path to the project and by default,
it points to 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.
This allows you to get files from the local file system. You can choose multiple files or entire folders.
This option is great if you have static web content that you wish to download and modify. For server side scripting (for example, PHP, Python, etc..) you will have to get the files another way.
Insert Files in Project
Check this if you wish to include files found in the path of the Main Folder. Leave unchecked when starting a project from scratch.
Choosing this option will only insert markup, script, and image files into your project.
Choosing this option will display all files and folders within the Main Folder and allow you to be more specific with your choices.
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.
More Project Settings
Insert your name (or alias) here.
The address where you would like email regarding this project to go.
Choose the markup language you will be working with the most within this project.
Choose the character encoding you wish the files in your project to be opened and saved with.
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 Quanta Plus. 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.
Enter the prefix you wish to use here.
This makes a copy of the global templates in your projects folder tree.
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 -> menu tree on the Upload Profiles Tab or with the keyboard shortcut Shift+F7.
The project properties dialog looks like:
The general options page
Some of the items are the same as in the project wizard and are described in the section called “New Projects”. The extra items are described below.
General Project Settings
A list of file names (wildcards can be used) that will be ignored when you do project related operations like .
A complementary option to the above one, also files listed in the .cvsignore file will be excluded from the project.
The project view that will be loaded when the project is opened. You can read more about project views in the section called “Project Views”.
Select the debugger you want to use. Currently only Gubed is support. You can find more information about Gubed at http://gubed.sourceforge.net.The debugger plugin can be configured with the Options button. read the section called “Debugging in Quanta Plus” to learn more about debugging.
The project view that will be loaded when the project is opened. You can read more about project views in the section called “Project Views”.
On the Upload Profiles page you can configure the upload profiles (see the section called “Upload profiles”), as well as enable the showing of a treeview with the content of the server for each profile by checking the Show a treeview for each profile checkbox.
On the Team Configuration page you can add, edit and remove members of the project as well as define a mailing list. Read the section called “Team Development” for details.
On the Event Configuration page you can Enable the event actions, add, modify and remove these actions. Event actions are executed when some predefined event occurs, like saving a file. See the section called “Event Actions” for details.
By default Quanta Plus will open the last project accessed when launched. This behavior is not currently configurable.
To open another project, select from the
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 Quanta Plus, your project file will be saved automatically. You will be asked to save any changes before exiting if Quanta Plus 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
mouse button 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 and mouse button menu items:
These items are left to the reader for exploration as well.
The Upload Project dialog:
The Upload Project dialog.
This is where different profiles can be chosen. The profile contains information on where the uploaded files are to be placed. Read the section called “Upload profiles”.
This button allows you to create new upload profiles.
This allows you to edit the currently selected upload profile.
This allows you to remove the current profile. If only one profile is available the button is grayed out to prevent its removal.
The password is stored in memory and is lost as soon as the program is closed. This option is useful if frequent uploading of files is necessary and you do not want to use the more insecure “Store password on disc” option.
Select all files in your project for upload.
Select all modified files for upload.
Unselects all files in the list.
Selects/Unselects all files in the list.
Expands all folders.
Collaspes all folders.
Refreshes list.
Start the upload
This will abort your transfer in progress or just exit out of the dialog if you change your mind before starting the upload.
With Quanta Plus you can define multiple upload profiles and, in this way, upload your project (or parts of your project) to different servers. When you edit or create a profile you will face the following dialog:
Enter the name you wish to give your profile here.
This is the hostname of the server you are copying the files to. Either a fully qualified domain name, or an IP address is needed.
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 (that is, local) and NFS.
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.
Username to use for authentication.
Password to use for authentication.
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 as text in an obscured form, so it's not simple to read it, but anyone with programming knowledge can easily un-obscure it.
This is the base path on the remote host that you will be copying files to.
Allows you to mark the profile currently being viewed as the default.
A project view is just a set of files and toolbars. You can have multiple views in a project, meaning that by simply changing the view you can load several files and toolbars which will replace the currently opened files and toolbars.
Views can be saved, opened, deleted using the menu or the Project Toolbar, accessible via ->->.
You can have a default view (loaded when the project is opened). See the section called “Configuring Projects”.
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