Dreamweaver "Code & Design View" as default?

[waldi76]

In an earlier version of DW (I think it was 4.0) I managed to get DW to open all HTML-documents in "Design & Code View" per default.

Now I use v6.0, and I can't find a way to set the default to "Design & Code". I'm really desperate - can anyone help me?

(to make it clear: I mean the "split screen" where the code is on top and the design underneath)

Thanx, Michael

[DerekH]

Mine behaves as you'd expect.

Have you tried deleting the preferences file and relaunching it, then setting up the workspace as you want? I really can't think of what else might cause this behaviour. There's always the Macromedia support forums if it's a truly knotty problem like this, where yours isn't behaving the way it should.
DerekH

[waldi76]

I just set the workspace to the split screen and closed the program to delete the preferences file.

But I tried once more, just opened the program without deleting anything - and now it works!

Don't know what the problem was, I've tried this several times before...

It must somehow depend on your posting, many thanks ;)

[syktek]

from what i've experienced, the mode you close the last document in will be the mode the next one opens in. so if you switch to code & design view, close the document, close DW...the next time you open a DW document it will open in code & design view.

[waldi76]

What you say is not correct with my version - it seems to be a difference between if you first close the document and then the program (as you wrote) or if you close DW with a document open the way you want it to be (split screen). In this case it should work.

As mentioned above, the behavior may be different with my version...

[syktek]

i guess it could be different like you say, i tested it on a PC using DWMX and DWMX2k4 and on a Mac using DWMX2K4.