> Let me give an example here so people know I'm not talking > out my butt. I went through extensive research to figure > this all out and then scrapped [CFFLUSH] because it didn't work > the way everyone thinks it does.
While I'm not accusing you of talking out your butt, since you're not Jim Carrey, I don't think that it's fair to state that CFFLUSH doesn't work the way everyone thinks it does. What CFFLUSH does is very simple - it flushes the already-generated output currently stored in CF's page buffer and sends that output to the browser. That's all - and I don't think most people expect it to do more than that. If you use CFFLUSH within a custom tag block, or any other tag within a custom tag block for that matter, the tag won't actually do anything until the end tag of the custom tag block is itself processed, unless the tag is one that aborts processing (CFABORT, CFEXIT, CFLOCATION). If you use CFFLUSH in the middle of a page, the following commands won't send text to the browser until the page is complete, or until another CFFLUSH tag executes within the page. Neither of these are limitations with Macromedia's CFFLUSH implementation; the first is just how custom tags work (if they didn't work that way, you wouldn't be able to play around with ThisTag.GeneratedContent during the end tag's execution) and the second is just common sense - how could CFFLUSH return the top and the bottom of a page, but not the middle? > CFFLUSH really is a useless tag unless you're trying to do > a very _basic_ thing with it. Anything fancy beyond the basic > will disappoint you. Macromedia should flesh it out some more, > but I'm sure they're answer would be "use Flash MX, have a > nice day." I'd argue that there isn't much that Macromedia can do about this - it's more a limitation of how browsers work, rather than something that could be "fixed" by more effort on the part of MM developers. So, yes, to that extent, if you want to do something that the browser is simply unable to do, their answer would be to use Flash MX, I suppose. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
