yeap, you have the inheritence part sussed out. Your component will inherit all properties; title, expirydate, teaser, body as well as methods; execute, edit ...
However, you will want to overrided methods like edit to cater for new agruments/parameters you have added. When you build your own component, you start from scratch. When you extent you inheirt and then extend by adding new parts to suit your needs - this may save you time if the base componet is a 80-90% fit. Not sure about bschedule, but bUseInTree=1 will add your componet to the create popup menu and create items in the overview plane, i.e. you can add your object to the navigation node like dmHTML. This may not be relivant in your case if you are basing it on a news item. Another thing you may want to look into is creating your own tab to house your custom type. See the how-to for the photo gallery - in there is a section on creating a tab (XML customadmin) and then link to a maintenance section to list all the instances you your component. On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:50:39 -0500, Jaci Chesnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So as it turns out what I want to do is extend dmNews rather than create > a totally custom type...Or are they one and the same. > > So my first line should by this? > > <cfcomponent extends="farcry.farcry_core.packages.types.dmNews" > displayname="Articles" hint="Article Directory" bschedule="1"> > > BTW...what does the bschedule="1" mean...in the tutorial its > bcustomType="1". Can't find a reference to this in the API but I might > just be looking in the wrong place. > > So if I'm extending dmnews then all of the properties already called by > my type (abArticles) through inheritance because I'm just extending > dmnews, right, or do I need to define them again in my abArticles.cfc? > > Jaci > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew > Mercer > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 9:51 AM > To: FarCry Developers > Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: Custom Types > > your best friend will be &debug=1 > > the best thing about programming is that you can crash the application > and nobody gets hurt. Follow the debugger - what is the worst that can > happen? > > disclaimer: you are working in a development environment and all your > code and database is backed up :-) > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:43:58 -0500, Jaci Chesnes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well I'm sure I'll have more questions but I guess I have no other > > alternative but to dive in and see where it takes me. There so much > > that I can mess up...how exciting ;-) > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Andrew > > Mercer > > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 9:22 AM > > To: FarCry Developers > > Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: Custom Types > > > > When building a new type (component) I find the closest match from the > > farCry components, eg dbNews, copy it to my application packages / > > types directory. You also need to copy the webskins directory. Then > > rename folders and files to what ever you want to cal the object, eg > > myNews and _myNews. The edit each cfc and cfm - watch out to paths > > that refer to the farcry_core directory and change to your application > > directory. > > > > in the cfc, remove ad add arguements (table fields) as required. Then > > (this is maybe were you are getting stuck), in the edit part, your > > need to create a form field for each argument you added in the cfc. > > > > the display methods will need to be change to to look for display*.cfm > > in your webskin dirctory. > > > > Wow - there is sooo much that needs to be done. I will stay online a > > while longer if I have missed the question or you need further > > clarification. > > > > {please excuse typos - just got back from end of year P&C, drinks > > included} > > > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:08:47 -0500, Jaci Chesnes > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Ok I've finally hit a wall with FarCry. I've discovered that I can't > > make > > > system do what I want it to do without building a custom type. I've > > gone > > > through the tutorial/walkthrough like 10 times and always get stuck > at > > the > > > same spot...creating the edit handler. I'll probably be needing a > > custom rule > > > as well but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. > > > > > > > > > > > > Here's what I need to do in a nutshell... > > > > > > > > > > > > I need to create a type similar to the News type but I need to added > a > > > couple columns in the table, one to designate month and one to > > designate > > > current (yes/no). Every time I get to the edit handler I get > > confused. It > > > just doesn't seem like there is enough info on how to write it to > > include > > > whatever new columns that you've added to the table. > > > > > > > > > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > > > Jaci > > > > > > --- > > > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia > > Developers: > > > http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > > > --- > > > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > --- > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
