Yeah the help in DWMX is completely useless. What happened to the old F1 on your selected code??? Plus in CFstudio when you brought up the help window for a function or tag, it would provide hyperlinks to all other related functions and tags just to make life easier.
Only spent a week in DWMX now, so I am sure there will be plenty to gripe about next week. Phil "Darren Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] DreamweaverMX and Why My Hatred for it Grows <rant> On the decidedly _un_grunt box that I use, DWMX is not terribly stable, but then FlashMX isn't much better. The help is awful. I want to be able to have my cursor on a cf tag, hit F1, and be given help on that command. DWMX doesn't do this. It puts you into a generic document folder and you have to navigate to the particular command that you want. There's no Save button on the desktop. When I want to save a document, I have to go Files/Save, not just hit the save button that Studio had. Ctrl-3 should put ## around what's highlighted, not make it <h3> like DWMX does. Many more keyboard short cuts that Studio had that were immensely useful for CF code are gone. The file list mixes files and folders into one confusing box rather than separating them into a folders pane and a files pane. More unnecessary confusion! Sites!!! wtf! I don't want to access my files via a 'site' setting, I just want to get to the files!! Saving files to the server and file locking. If you modify a file on the server and save it, then someone else modifies that file and saves it (all serial actions, with no overlap) then you open it up again (even after shutting down DWMX and restarting it) it gives you the same freaking file that you edited earlier, not the file on the server that was modified later by someone else, because it now insists on saving all files locally on your HDD (even if you tell it to deal directly with the server files), and all it does is just checks to see if you have the file locally and servers you up that as if it just got it off the server! Collaborative work without some form of CSV type setup is just not possible! Its EVIL I tell ya!!! EVIL, and _no_ good will come from it!!!! You mark my words!!!! </rant> I'm trying to use DWMX. I'm forcing myself to use it, and I don't have Studio installed, so I can't cheat. I hoped it would grow on my, but its not. I know I can probably modify setting to change some of these things, but then why should I have to spend time to make the provided tool to edit CF capable of adequately edit CF. It should do all this correctly out of the box, not after spending a week tinkering with it. (maybe the rant tags should be around the above paragraph too?!) That's my 2cents worth. Darren Tracey > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:11 PM > To: CFAussie Mailing List > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: DreamweaverMX > > > I'm now using DWMX on my new laptop, and i have to say, i'm > starting to get > used to it again.. mind you i'm in the honeymoon stage of it > all, so no > doubt 2 wks from now i'll be bitching away. > > As for application messing ups? pft, ignorant wretch :D sif > CFSTUDIO will > impact on your application. Its just a text editor with bells > and whistles. > > Oh and i've been given the task in using Contribute... I do > admit, that > these applications are great for static / semi-static sites. > > Scott > > "Jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi Guys, > > I know this sounds silly. And I'm only sending this to please my manager. > But I need opinons on the stability of DWMX vs. Studio. Now before I get > laughed at please remember this is not ME asking this question....its my > boss lady. > > She is worried that when we go down the DWMX that it will mess up the > application that we coded in CFStudio 4.5. > SO is there any evidence out there that would indicate DWMX messing up > applications? > > IF we run Studio 4.5 and DWMX at the same time will the libaries run > independantly? > > Thanks.... > > Jeremy > p.s. I did try to explain to her its a coding environment not a development > environment...ho hum...what do I know.... > > > > --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/ --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
