I use Cold Fusion Studio 5 and notepad for quick fixes. I find the goto line number menu option very useful in Notepad for locating javascript errors. Never bother with the studio equivolent.
I have to say that did find CFS 5 almost unusable before I created a custom toolbar and my own buttons. For me the biggest nightmare was that they changed the <CFIF></CFIF> from being automatically being placed around the highlighted text to opening up dialog boxes and generally getting in the way. So I created a button for it - also for the <cfabort> : no more dialogs for that either. It just chucks in the tag where I tell it to. Also switched off all of the tag insights and that sort of stuff. If I need help with a tag, I just use the right click + edit tag Martin L. Gill, MSc - Programmer For & on Behalf of UniTech (The Universal Information Technology Group Ltd) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ URL: http://www.unitech.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UniTech House, 25 Bernard Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 6SH Tel: +(44) 0131 472 5555 DDI: +(44) 0131 472 5560 Fax: +(44) 0131 472 5556 -----Original Message----- From: Paul Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 March 2003 11:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Writing Coldfusion > What do people use for writing Coldfusion? DWMX > The new Dreamweaver MX has been out for a while now and I > tried using it for a while but was not over impressed. I > found it difficult to configure / personalize and also very > slow even with 2MHz machines with plenty of RAM. Also it > seemed more geared towards Designers than Programmers. The advantages are the integration of things like the Database stuff, the style sheet editing, the CFC integration etc. Once you get used to "Sites" instead of projects, it actually becomes a whole load easier. Just create a site for the current site you're working on, and then uploading becomes simple (ie right click on file/directory/site and choose "Put"). I do have some problems with it as it does sometimes lose the settings (I don't know why), and it's memory usage is high, so running CFMX Developer and DWMX and SQL Server Developer Edition can cause problems (although not too many if you limit SQL Server's and CFMX's Memory usage). My machine? Sony VAIO, Win2k Pro, 256MB RAM, 650Mhz processor. Does the job fine. Rarely have to reboot, sometimes have to shut down processes (but that's not difficult) and doesn't crash (much). Can even run Apache, PHP, MySQL alongside all of this and it still works fine. > I still use CF Studio 5. I can understand this, but I do think if you get into DWMX, it is actually significantly better (so long as you don't use Design view AT ALL) > I would just like to find out other peoples experiences with > DWMX to find out if I'm just too old for change 8-)). You're not too old for change. I have Homesite+ and DWMX on my machine and I used to use CF Studio although I have now uninstalled it as I don't actually think it's worthwhile having it on there. I'd use DWMX over anything, unless you could come up with an editor like DWMX that didn't have the design view aspect (because that's not useful to me). Code completion (for more than just CF), style sheet editing from within the program, sites (ie simple uploading/downloading), CVS integration would be even better etc. Just switch, you'll get used to it! Paul -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
