Hi. Kevin here with Aptana again. I'm gonna talk a bit more about the Actions View, or more specifically, the Snippet mechanism that we added in Beta 3.2.

So let's take a look at a Snippet in action. Let me go over to this HTML document and then look under the Actions View in the HTML category, and I think I'll insert a Script Tag for JavaScript. So I double-click that item, and now we see we have a Script Element in there.

Our Snippets also allow you to prompt the user for additional information. So the QuickTime movie is an example of that. So I double-click that item. You see now that it's asking me for the name of the movie. I'm just going to call it Test.mov. So we created this whole object and embed elements, and you see here that we have the name that I typed in plus its source. We have it again.

Now, one of the nice things is we can edit these templates. So let's say that we want to have a value that goes right here. So I'm just going to copy this text. I'm going to go back over to the Actions View, right-click, Edit Action. So we have a special comment up here, which I'll talk a bit more of later.

But now we see here we want to add, let's say, Value Equals just empty for now. So I'm going to save this. And we see some activity over in the Actions View, and what that did was it actually reloaded this particular action, which means that now if I go back into this HTML document and run Insert QuickTime called Test2, we now see that we have that value.

So what this means is that you're able to edit the existing Snippets that are provided to you with Aptana. So if they're not exactly the way you want it, you do have more control over those. But to give you even the most control, let's go ahead and create a new template or a new Snippet of our own.

So under the template category, we have all these Create Actions. I'm going to go ahead and create an XML Snippet just to do something a little bit different. So I'm going to double-click that item. The first thing it does is it asks us for the name of the Snippet. Now, this is the name that's going to appear in the Action View, so I'm just gonna call this Insert SPG. Now the template that we're creating - sorry, the Snippet that we're creating has to live in a file, so it's asking for the name of that file. I'm just going to go with the default. So this Snippet was created with another Snippet, which defaults. It inserts the name and a tool tip.

Now, if you notice over here on the left, we already have an Insert SPG. That's because as soon as we created this Snippet, the action that created it enters it into the Actions View and then highlights it for us so that we can find it easily.

Okay, so now all we need to do is simply add some SPG. For those of you I know I should be defining the name in the default name space, but this is a demo. Okay, let's see. And then let's give it a radius of let's say 75. And we'll give that a - make that blue.

Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and save this text because, again, see some activity in the Actions View, so that has updated this particular Snippet. I see it in Actions, so let me create a new - I'll call it an SPG file. So this is empty right now. I double-click Insert SPG. And there's the text that we just created. And of course, I can preview that and see a nice blue circle.

Okay, now another kind of a little bit more advanced feature is the idea that you can prompt, and we saw that with the QuickTime Snippet, so what you do is you, up here in this top section, we enter a prompt command and then the name of the variable that you want to use. Let's just say we want to define the color. Now, we need to provide some text to the user so they know what they're entering information for, so I'll just say, "Please enter the color." Not particularly exciting, but we save this. And now we'll go back into this SPG file, select that, and we'll double-click our Insert SPG. And see, now this time it's asking us for the color.

So I enter red and we get the same thing. Well, that's because now we need to actually tell this template where we want to use this value. So I'm going to go to this fill and use the dollar sign open and close curly braces and put the name of the variable inside of there. And of course, that can be in this file, in this Snippet, as many times as you want. So I'm going to save that and then we're going to try inserting that again. This time I'm going to use red. And now you see that it actually filled in the value, and if I preview it, it is indeed red.

So that covers a bit about Snippets and the Actions View. Hopefully, this will be something that will help you quite a bit in your editing, and thanks for listening. Bye.

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