Ok, there is quite a bit of info around about Blackstone now and apparently the best features are still to be unveiled.
What is known: Timelines: US Summer 2004 - Service Pack to MX 6.1 (mostly older releases) - 60 hot fixes, faster db drivers. US Fall 2004 - Blackstone Beta Early 2005 (Nov 2004 to Mar 2005) - Final release of Blackstone Date Entry enhancements: - skinnable forms based on Xforms. - using cfforms by applying xsl stylesheets - New cfinput types = password, hidden, file - basic flex type functionality - flex type bindings in flash controls - <cfformgroup> to group form controls - eg horizontally - <cfselect> has a group by feature - Improved validation. - IsValid() - encapsulates all validation - flash versions of cftree and cfgrid Printing: - <cfdocument> to create pdf and flash paper + others in future - rtf, excel, doc - <cfdocumentitemtype> - page break, headers, page numbers etc - font management system using the administrator. Using pdf feature to embed fonts in pdf documents - <cfreport> to deliver reports in pdf and flash with all the groupings, sortings, drill down - add on component to dreamweaver to design reports with all the CF functionality. This schema is saved as an xslt sheet that is called upon by the cfreport tag Deployment: - sourceless deployment - single java archive that packages the application as well as the CF engine into one WAR or EAR - Simplify multiple instances - administrative interface Enhancements to dreamweaver: - More wizards for new users as well as for quick applications. Eg Login Wizard - Changes to cflogin - NT security / ldap - CF Administrator functionality in dreamweaver - eg., setting datasources and debugging Others: - Embedded images in <cfmail> - <cftimer> to test code run times. Allows nested as well as various display options - Lots more xml functions. - xmlValidate(), xmlparse() - Improved charting - changes to CFC Exposing Admin API: - datasources - change debug settings - create own admin console --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
