Importing Stuff

[Wooks]

Why can't you import HTML pages that have been made using other HTML editors? YOu can import gifs, jpgs but not the page
Is it possible to import the page and if so how do I do it?

[Jinker]

I'm interested as well as i've also tried to import files from frontpage but that didn't work. Also, the so called sites made using Antenna didn't open either after i dumped them to my hard drive. I'm sure the file system must be unique but i would like to know if templates can be used? and how?

[Stormdance]

The current version can not import raw html files. They lack the necessary information - for example html files do not contain layer data, multilingual data is absent, and they rarely include exact positioning coordinates for pictures and text etc.

Antenna's visual editor is object based - but in general html files do not contain any objects. To take a specific example: In html there is no such thing as a Roll-Picture control - this is a unique and powerful Antenna control built to enable rollover effects without you having to write a single line of code yourself. An existing html file may also contain some sort of rollover effect - but the chances that it uses the exact same html as Antenna generates is very slim.

That's not to say some sort of reverse conversion couldn't be done - just that it would be very tricky to implement and would not be perfect (It's the equivalent of giving someone a .exe file and asking them to convert it back to the original source code).

An alternative to conversion would be to permit html files to be imported and published, but not edited. They would remain exactly 'as is' - untouched. If this would be of any use to you, let me know.

Cheers,
Stormdance

[Wooks]

Yeah that would be helpful if you can import html pages, but it would be even better if you can import and actually work on the page too!