Personally, I cannot see why the hell they dropped CFSTUDIO? I think they pinned their hopes on making a tool for both developers and designers in one bold attempt i'll give em that but really, why kill a perfectly good concept for the sake of a half baked one.
I forced myself to use DWMX from CFSTUDIO for 4-5 months, and i really gave it a shot but man did it end up pissing me off! Here are a few KEY important things about DWMX that just throw a huge spanner in your development. - Try doing a CFINCLUDE on a .js file and see what happens (or any other file thats got a non .cfm extension), - Shortcut keys don't bind to nominated tags even though the application says it does (ie i always bounded CTRL + O to cfoutput - Snippets are just useless, as there is an overload on panels as is, but to get to snippets you have limited realestate. Furthermore you can't bind keys to these snippets (loved that feature the most in CFS). - Expression Builder, I used this heaps mainly for a quick insight into function / tags but to also "draw formulas". Used this one the most in CFS. - File / Explorer style access. While I love DWMX's abilities to create "site definitions" I still find it annoying that you have this fumbled solution in that to access files on the hard drive you first have to define a site! Secondly, if you have gone to the trouble of seperating your GUI elements into directory structures (ie Backgrounds, Icons, Photos, SWFs etc) the assets folder dumps them all as one big output assuming you already know the name of the graphics (on a large website this is a tedious excercise). Theres more, no time left to type it all out :D Scott LONG LIVE CFS!! -----Original Message----- From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 4 June 2003 8:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [CFCDev] [OT] CFDJ Awards Hear Hear! I could write a book about why CFS is better than DWMX, although DWMX does have ... umm ... nevermind. --- Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer AudienceCentral (formerly PIER System, Inc.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice : 360.756.8080 x12 fax : 360.647.5351 www.audiencecentral.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Adam Cameron > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 3:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [CFCDev] [OT] CFDJ Awards > > > Sorry for off-topic post, but I think it's a significant issue (kind > of). > > I notice on the CFDJ Readers' "Choice", there's no CHOICE to vote for > ColdFusion Studio as the best Development Tool. > > Is this subtle opinion manipulation so DWMX comes out on top? I would > be VERY SURPRISED if *most* CF developers thing it's better than CFS (if > they had the option to indicate as such). Even if it's a retired > product, if it's the most popular, it deserves to be identified as such. > Especially it it helps MM realise that DWMX is not a completely suitable > successor to CFS. > > URL: > http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/readerschoice2003/liveupdate.cfm?BType > =8 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' > in the message of the email. > > CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported > by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.487 / Virus Database: 286 - Release Date: 6/1/2003 ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com).
