> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:07 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: wanted features (was Re: (Admin) disclosure)
>
> > The two biggest requests for new functionality I here are:
> >
> > 1) End of session processing (however it's done, an event model, a
> > special template handler, etc - people are always asking "how do I
tell
> > when a user is about to time-out").
> That would be great. OnEventEnd as a setting of some sort in the
> CFAPPLICATION
> tag to run a template when the specific event ends (OnSessionEnd,
> OnApplicationEnd). An admin or programatic way of watching the current
> session
> information would also be great. You can hack such a thing now, but
built
> in
> would be so much nicer.
I've got a feature request in the MM system now (actually added for me
by Adam Cameron) suggesting the extension of the Application.cfm to at
least four levels:
Application.cfm/OnRequestStart.cfm (a much better name I think)
OnRequestEnd.cfm: Already implemented
OnServerStart.cfm: Runs when the server starts. (Maybe not a good idea
as there may be file placement issues).
OnServerEnd.cfm: Runs when the server is taken down "nicely" - would be
useful for logging and such.
OnApplicationStart.cfm: Runs once the first time an app starts (server
refresh).
OnApplicationEnd.cfm: Runs on a nice server refresh or app time-out.
OnSessionStart.cfm: Runs once when a session is initialized in that
session's space.
OnSessionEnd.cfm: Runs right before a session is timed-out in that
session's space (but doesn't reset the session timeout).
> > 2) Direct Image manipulation (at the very least information access
and
> > resizing - it seems like every other week somebody is asking how to
do a
> > thumbnail gallery). This is pretty easy nowadays if you know a
little
> > Java - but many CFers don't.
> Direct image, PDF, RTF, etc. manipulation/creation. We can create
graphs
> on the
> fly nativly in CF, we can create images using the CFX_Image tag, we
can
> use X,Y,
> or Z product to create PDFs. Why not make it all native to CF.
This is the kind of thing that you can really extend infinitely. For
specific file formats (like PDF) I'm not sure if it's something MM would
want to do (licensing costs, perhaps, and version issues might crop up).
However it seems like they may be able to partner with somebody for this
stuff and include it in the base product.
In general CF's handling of binary data leaves a lot to be desired
(although it has gotten much better). Although it is possible to embed
binary data in a CF file now it's a little kludgy.
It would be very nice to be able to stream data into CF (as from a text
log file) instead of being forced to always load the entire file into
memory via CFFILE.
> > Even if NNTP's not "in demand" it does seem like one of the only
major
> > protocols that CF doesn't support natively. For that reason alone
it
> > might be nice to see it in there ("Supports all major Internet
> > protocols").
> My point. :)
And a fine point it is. ;^)
I'm just surprised that this was never done... I know that they've
always got bigger, better on the horizon and they're working on that,
but NNTP is such a simple protocol (no more complex than say SMTP or
POP). You'd think they would have done something long ago.
Jim Davis
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