Just a random thought (note: I don't have/see any of those issues people seem to have with the product - I actually think the search works great)...
Have you guys ever tried to make those suggestions/rants to Adobe. Not to Adobe corporate - we all know that it's ... well... rather difficult to get through to them. But to the CF/CF Builder product/engineering team directly? To (ex)-folks in product management like Adam or Rakshith? To Hemant or Rupesh in engineering management? Or to Terry? They've been to events like webDU or cf.O(ANZ) in the past - or - hey, actually just last week. The CF product team is _by far_ the easiest-to-approach product team within whole Adobe. If anyone _honestly_ wants to get in touch with those guys and help to improve the software so that it's more useful for you or your team or your whole company - I'm more than happy to put you in touch, just let me know. Instead of complaining how much one misses Homesite or how bad one thinks CFB is etc - do something about it if you don't like it. Give direct feedback. Ask them for solutions/workarounds. Ask them to be part of pre-release programs and contribute in there. But don't magically expect a tool that's exactly doing what you want it to do and exactly how you want it to be done. Just saying, Kai > I'm so glad I'm not the only one. > > I have tried so hard to like it. This is my second go at using it and > I have been on it for 6 months or more now and I still don't like it > nearly as much as HomeSite+. > > Might be a great CFUG to demo a few other options like IntelliJ etc. > > Rawdy > > On Nov 24, 6:09 pm, Andrew Myers <am2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> - The search is just useless really. If you search for >> something in a project, it would be much more useful if you could >> drill down into the line in the file where the search instance appears >> instead of having to hunt through the file >> <<<<<< >> >> CTRL -> F, change scope to projects, select a project, press find all, >> and you get a "search" results view which has a tree view which has >> "next match / previous match" options, and expands to show each match >> in each file. Click it to go to the exact line of the match. By >> default the search view opens in the right hand pane. I prefer to >> move it to the bottom pane (somewhere near the servers view). If >> you're not seeing it go to Window -> Show View -> Search >> >> >> >> - Searching in the file you are working on/have open is >> flakey. I always get a “No file open” message and im like WTF? I >> have to select a different source and then choose the Current document >> option again for it to work. >> <<<<<< >> >> Have never seen this myself. Has anyone else noticed it? >> >> >> >> - There is no direction option for the search which means if >> you want to search the whole document you have to scroll to the top of >> the document for it to search the whole thing >> <<<<<< >> >> In the CTRL -> F dialog there is a "search backwards" option.... I >> also like to to enable the "Wrap search" option too >> >> >> >> - You have to open a new search box for every file you have open. >> <<<<<< >> >> I don't see this behaviour at all. CTRL -> F allows you to repeat >> your search on every open file - select files using the workspace >> editor tabs and repeat the search in there if you want. >> >> Andrew. >> >> On 24 November 2011 17:46, Steve Onnis <st...@cfcentral.com.au> wrote: >> >>> Refer to my first email >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Andrew Myers [mailto:am2...@gmail.com] >>> Sent: Thursday, 24 November 2011 5:37 PM >>> To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: [cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion Builder Opinions >> >>> What makes you say so? >> >>> On 24 November 2011 17:21, Steve Onnis <st...@cfcentral.com.au> wrote: >>>> Thats the worst search feature of them all >> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Andrew Myers [mailto:am2...@gmail.com] >>>> Sent: Thursday, 24 November 2011 5:02 PM >>>> To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com >>>> Subject: Re: [cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion Builder Opinions >> >>>> Also, from an open File you can do CTRL F which brings up a find >>>> dialog similar to Dreamweaver where you can search current document, >>>> all open documents, project, workspace, etc. >> >>>> Initially I disliked this, because it is different to Eclipse's >>>> default behaviour. But it's pretty good. >> >>>> On 24 November 2011 16:31, Peter Robertson <peter.r.robert...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> So, you go into Search / Find in Files (top menu), create and select a >>>>> Working Set to point to a path, provide a string, hit search, and then >>>>> under the search tab in the lower right panel, you get a tree >>>>> structure with a drillable list of hits. You double click on a hit >>>>> and it opens the file, locates the corresponding location in the file >>>>> and highlights the hit. I don't find it that different to Homsite >>>>> from what I can remember. Also, up and down arrows in the top of the >>>>> search panel position the cursor on prev/next hit within the file and >>>>> then across files. >> >>>>> I think it's all right. >> >>>>> Peter Robertson >> >>>>> On Nov 24, 3:42 pm, "Steve Onnis" <st...@cfcentral.com.au> wrote: >>>>>> Does anyone else thing that CFBuilder is a bucket of bolts? >> >>>>>> For me:- >> >>>>>> - The search is just useless really. If you search for >>>> something >>>>>> in a project, it would be much more useful if you could drill down into >>>> the >>>>>> line in the file where the search instance appears instead of having to >>>> hunt >>>>>> through the file >> >>>>>> - Searching in the file you are working on/have open is flakey. >>>> I >>>>>> always get a "No file open" message and im like WTF? I have to select a >>>>>> different source and then choose the Current document option again for >>> it >>>> to >>>>>> work. >> >>>>>> - There is no direction option for the search which means if >>> you >>>>>> want to search the whole document you have to scroll to the top of the >>>>>> document for it to search the whole thing >> >>>>>> - You have to open a new search box for every file you have >>>> open. >> -- Kai Koenig - Ventego Creative Ltd ph: +64 4 476 6781 - mob: +64 21 928 365 / +61 435 263 414 web: http://www.ventego-creative.co.nz blog: http://www.bloginblack.de twitter: http://www.twitter.com/agentK -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
