From version 6.8.3.0 TAD Designer Lite now has a simple, yet powerful mechanism to send commands from a browser directly into TAD Designer Lite running inside the same computer as the browser. It uses a special “localhost” server. The word localhost means that it will will ONLY work on the same computer where you had started it and nowhere else.

TAD Designer Lite internally recognizes some special links in HTML pages that can drive this localhost server. See the file tadprotocol.html that is in the same folder where you installed TAD. Load that file into a text editor and see how the links are created. Note that the localhost server protects itself using your credentials. So when you try to use it; the browser will need to authenticate you. If you browse the tutorials page, you will be prompted for a username and password. The username there is “tad” (really!) and the password you give there is actually the registered username you had used when registering TAD. Your username is shown on the toolbar inside TAD Designer Lite.

Note that this mechanism deprecates the earlier TAD Hyperlinks system. In a few versions down the line, we may completely remove that system and only have the localhost mechanism.

Once you install TAD on your computer; the installer would automatically also install special links that may be present in some web pages. These special hyperlinks can be understood by opening the file 'tadprotocol.html' that is in the main folder of your installed TAD directory

Note that it is critical that you run the installer for these special hyperlinks to work

Why?
This is very useful to write documentation on websites that can directly refer to the objects and/or the file and/or your TAD installation. For example; if you want to describe, using text, each architectural element in your project – you can do so in a website and then insert special TAD hyperlinks to actually go to those architectural elements directly in the TAD file itself

You want an example here? Fine. Click on the following links. But make sure that TAD is open and running inside your computer

td://o=Clothshop.td5

(Note only the files in the TADSamples folder can be opened using such links)

Example
Double click on the tadprotocol.html file from the directory where TAD was installed and try the links there! View the HTML source of that file to see how that was written