I fully agree that it can be intimidating and is more difficult to get used to than something like Dreamweaver (I said as much in my original post waaaaay up there). However, it really isn't THAT difficult to learn, you just have to work with it. I think we both agree.
My real point in continuing with the thread is that it is obvious that a lot people have major misconceptions about CFEclipse and what it can or can't do. As far as I am concerned the only two arguments that have any real validity to them are the inability to click on a file in your OS file explorer to open in in Eclipse, and the fact that it takes up 100Mb of physical RAM by default. And to me these aren't even worth worrying about when weighed against the vast usefulness of the Eclipse platform and CFEclipse. As I said, once you're leveraging the Subversion, ANT, and unit testing integration in Eclipse, the old way will seem downright quiant. Actually there is a third real issue people have, and I think it's that people who are used to Homesite or Dreamweaver just don't want to deal with learning curve and the slight changes needed to do similar things in CFEclipse. Which I guess is a valid point, but not, in my opinion, a very sound decision to make in the long term. Regards, Brian On 6/26/07, Bobby Hartsfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No offense, but you've missed the point as well and taken the conversation > in a different direction. :-) or hell.. maybe it was me.. I don't remember > anymore haha > > I THINK the point here WAS that CFEclipse has a bigger learning curve than > DW. I use CFEclipse but still agree with that. I don't see how that's > debatable really. > > Anyone can open up DW for the first time when it asks what view you wish > to > use... choose code and move directly forward to editing files. That's what > people are used to which more or less makes it what people expect to see > when they open CFEclipse for the first time. It's plainly not what you > see. > There is much more to it. Not that it's a bad thing... it's not... > CFEClipse > keeps me inline where I used to make a mess all over the place. It just > takes getting used to.. that's all. > > ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. > Bobby Hartsfield > http://acoderslife.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Kotek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:14 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CF Editor > > Thank you for missing the point, Claude. Which was that you CAN easily run > simple tests or try things out within Eclipse without having to set up new > projectes or files over and over. > > On 6/26/07, Claude Schneegans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >>Maybe you aren't aware of the CFEclipse scribble template? It will > > let you > > test out code and run it at the press of a button (I use F8). > > > > And MSIE will do it just in one click. > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:282268 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
