I had a long conversation with a developer friend yesterday about this very topic - Writing output inside a CFC (or UDF)
Personally, I feel it's not bad form to create GUI cfc's. They don’t perform any true business logic, just return pagelets or form parts. How do you feel about that Isaac - AND what do you use for pagelets? (cfinclude, cfmodule?) Matt Knight ► w: 972 361 9943 ► m: 214 213 4016 -----Original Message----- From: S.Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In Aug's CF Dev Journal, Ben Forta introduces CFMX 6.1 and mentions > that "CFCs can now safely be placed in a variety of scopes" but does > not mention what those scopes are. Does anyone know what > modifications have been made to CFCs with the new release of CFMX 6.1? > Thanks - > Tom Schreck Iirc he's just referring to them fixing the page context(?) bug. You can output content directly from a CFC stored in the application or session scope. I'm with Sean Corfield and other OO folks on that one tho -- I don't think display should be output directly to the page within a function or cfc method (now that I have a better understanding of what they were talking about). Not because of any OO principals but just because it breaks the metaphor of functions. And the default output="true" _should_ have been false to make the default comparable to CF5 UDF's. It drove me insane the first time I ran into it trying to figure out why I couldn't get <a href="#myfunction()#"> to work because it was inserting white space into the output before the function call, but not with <cfset myvar = myfunction()> ... that's what I mean by breaking the metaphor. You can use writeoutput() to do the same thing in a CF5 UDF but it has to be explicit and even then I don't recommend it for the same reason. s. isaac dealey 972-490-6624 team macromedia volunteer http://www.macromedia.com/go/team chief architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to onTap is open source http://www.turnkey.to/ontap ----------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: Send UNSUBSCRIBE to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe / unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org ----------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: Send UNSUBSCRIBE to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe / unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org
