I have recently opted to release the source code for www.actcfug.com to the community - as a fast track to a fully functional User Group web site that is not written in PHP. Written using Fusebox it is quite powerful and includes roles based security.
Unfortunately for me I mainly use a product called "ActiveEdit" (version 4.x) - a fine rich text editor that works amazingly well with ColdFusion, eg: <cf_activedit name="ArticleBody" inc="#Request.ActiveEditIncludePath#" width="800" height="450" upload="1" breakonenter="true" alloweditsource="yes" buttoncolor="cdcdcd" image="true" toolbar="cut,copy,paste,|,redo,undo,|,outdent,indent,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,bullets,numbers,|,table,image,hyperlink,||,find,help,specialchars,|,quickformat,bold,italic,underline,showdetails,hr" tabview="yes" imagepath="#Request.ActiveEditImagePath#" imageurl="#Request.ActiveEditImageURL#" baseurl="#Request.ApplicationURL#" stylesheet="#Request.ApplicationURL#/style.css" appletlicense="#Request.ActiveEditLicence#"></cf_activedit> Of course I am not at liberty to distribute ActivEdit so any suggestions for a similar open source alternative would be welcome. Also the image upload facility recently broke for no reason - argh. Note that the version would need to be re-distributed under a similar open source arrangement so I would more than likely require the developers permission to include it. It would seem farcical to return to a straight TEXTAREA control but am willing to do that if an alternative is not available. the ColdUserGroup code at this stage requires at least ColdFusion 7.x (as I use Flash forms a bit) but that could be adjusted. It will at least require Microsoft SQL Server 2000+, I will consider an "Access" version but no serious developer would contemplate that surely. However www.actcfug.com and its code base could be better. Written quickly but functional I would like to see it evolve, say more use of CFC's, better support for member content submission. The official site will be listed at www.riaforge.com and I encourage all CF developers to contribute. Some bits, like the Google Calendar (cool) will be stripped out but placeholder text included for users to add their own functionality. Flex 2 support is an obvious choice but I have found documentation for Flex 2/CF severely lacking so far - especially in a hosted environment - and feel my Flex 2 skills aren't quite ready for that yet. An O'Reilly book is on the way - next year.... I also use Flash forms a bit - but good XML forms are a viable alternative until their performance is on par with Flex 2. Kind regards, PT --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
