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Well, I use DW in Code And Design View, and I often find it easier to adjust something in the code rather than figuring out how to do it in the Design view.
Lately, since the update, if I change something in the Code view, when I click back into the Design view (or press f5), a message pops up and tells me that I've changed an area protected by a template, and that when I change the template the changes I've just made will be lost. It then gives me the option to keep the changes or discard them.
I simply keep the changes and nothing happens to them, they're fine. Because they're *not* in an area protected by a template; they're within the re-editable regions I defined in 6.0.
Before I upgraded I backed up everything that the release notes suggested to, but there were no problems-- I had 3 sites defined, and none of the definitions were lost. The main site I'm working on has over 100 pages, most of which are working off of a single template with several subtemplates defining subsections.
Does anyone have any suggestions for dealing with this? It doesn't seem to actually impede my using the program, but it's quite annoying, as I do click into the Code view fairly frequently just to tidy things up and the like.
Thanks for any help anyone can give...
have you tried to use the split-mode (design and code view at once) of DW6? does the error/bug still appear?
- hakre
Yes, that's what I use. I haven't tried using the other views...
The error message isn't appearing today, but I didn't even restart. I only posted after it had been happening for two days. I don't know; perhaps I just haven't triggered the same set of circumstances. i was pretty sure it was almost every time I edited the code and then clicked in the design pane. *shrug*
Oop, it just happened again.
I'm going to try now switching views.
Well, if I edit in code view, then switch to design view, the message doesn't appear.
It's just odd. It lets me make the changes... I just thought I'd ask and see if anyone else had found this to happen. I'm a little worried that it's going to do something else fritzy!
i think if you're using the big-fat-dw6, a lot of things can go frizzy. i have been testing dw in lower versions and some bugs went from one version into the other, so i'm defenetly shure that there are bugs in dw6, even updated to dw6.1 if the developers haven't changed that much in designing the app ;).
- hakre
Actually I've just switched to a Mac at home so I may just go to BBEdit and learn to hand-code properly. I've learned a lot at this job, and among those lessons was the observation that a state-of-the-art wysiwyg is still a wysiwyg.
Oh well...
:)
