Re: CFC for Image Manipulation

2005-12-15 Thread Massimo Foti
Is anyone else familiar with Image Magick, and how does the final image quality compare to Massimo's CFC? I would consider using his component if the final quality is at least as good, but my first concern is having the best final product, not the means to get there. I really have no idea

RE: Group Query help.

2005-12-15 Thread ColdFusion
I have never tried to add MAXROWS to an CFOUTPUT Statement of a Group before, so I am not use it Can be done, however the only other way I can Think of is by creating your own counter and increment It by 1 each time until you get the desired number Of records. CFSET grpCounter = 0 CFOUTPUT

RE: RSS looks ok but not ok

2005-12-15 Thread Matthew Walker
This problem was caused by client variable storage failure due to a full database. I wasn't seeing the problem in my browser as it was recognised, so overwriting exiting client records. However when I used a service such as an RSS reader or validator or anonymizer.com, new client variables were

PDF Manipulation

2005-12-15 Thread Cutter
So, trying to find a more effective solution for converting uploaded PDFs to images. Started looking for a Java library for PDF manipulation. Found one in PDFBox (sourceforge), but it's PDFToImage() needs work and hasn't really matured enough yet (still new and basically in testing). Just

RE: Love flash in CFCHART but hate...

2005-12-15 Thread Steven Brownlee
Awesome, Ray, I'm headed there now. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 5:50 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Love flash in CFCHART but hate... You can configure a _lot_ of stuff via the cfcharts command line designer

RE: Love flash in CFCHART but hate...

2005-12-15 Thread Steven Brownlee
*I* actually wanted the PNG type (less compression), but the users get what the users want :\ -Original Message- From: Richard Colman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 8:25 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Love flash in CFCHART but hate... Set it as a jpg...

RE: PDF Manipulation

2005-12-15 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ -Original Message- From: Cutter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 December 2005 11:57 To: CF-Talk Subject: PDF Manipulation So, trying to find a more effective solution for converting uploaded PDFs to images. Started looking for a Java library for PDF

RE: PDF Manipulation

2005-12-15 Thread Snake
And just so u realise, this is already installed with CFMX and is what CFDocument uses, you just have more control if you use it directly rather than via cfdocument. Russ -Original Message- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 December 2005 11:56 To:

RE: backslash-digit interpreted in strings

2005-12-15 Thread Andy Matthews
johnathan... I'm not sure if this is what you're trying to do and it's not working but the \5 is a back reference used in regular expressions. It means that it's trying to look for a value contained in memory used within the regex portion of your REReplace function. You might already know this,

RE: Group Query help.

2005-12-15 Thread Andy Matthews
I'm no SQL expert but I don't know if what you're describing is possible. Retrieve a max of 5 rows for each group in the database. I think that's going to have to be done in CF. !//-- andy matthews web developer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737

RE: PDF Manipulation

2005-12-15 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Yep, indeed it is; I am not sure if it's restricted in anyway. -Original Message- From: Snake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 December 2005 13:25 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: PDF Manipulation And just so u realise, this is already installed with CFMX and is what CFDocument uses, you

Re: PDF Manipulation

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Hastings
Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: Yep, indeed it is; I am not sure if it's restricted in anyway. the cf version is older than the latest greatest BUT cfdocument is world's easier to use in 90% of the situations you'd need it. the cf team did a bang up job simplifying iText.

RE: Group Query help.

2005-12-15 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
The only thing I can think of off the top of my head that MIGHT be able to help is 'LIMIT' in MySQL... even then I THINK you can only use that at the end of a query. But with nested selects, you might come up with something. What type of database are you using? That might trigger the brain of

RE: Love flash in CFCHART but hate...

2005-12-15 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Steve, You can configure a _lot_ of stuff via the cfcharts command line designer program. It is in your cfusion/bin folder I believe. If you search Tim Buntel's blog, he wrote an entry about it a few months back. Here's some info I blogged a while back:

Javascript associative array dropdowns

2005-12-15 Thread Robert Everland III
I can't remember for the life of me where there is a coldfusion tag that will do what this can do http://www.indiankey.com/cfajax/examples/keyvalue.htm , I don't have need for ajax, I just want to do one query, throw it to an application variable and create the javascript. Bob

Re: Javascript associative array dropdowns

2005-12-15 Thread Wayne Putterill
twoselectsrelated is the tag you want, it should be in the exchange. On 12/15/05, Robert Everland III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't remember for the life of me where there is a coldfusion tag that will do what this can do http://www.indiankey.com/cfajax/examples/keyvalue.htm , I don't

RE: Javascript associative array dropdowns

2005-12-15 Thread Andy Matthews
It's called TwoSelectsRelated or ThreeSelectsRelated. !//-- andy matthews web developer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --//- -Original Message- From: Robert Everland III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005

RE: Sharepoint

2005-12-15 Thread Kevin Graeme
We've looked at it a little bit here too, so I'd be interested too in any CF integration thoughts. I'm guessing they're pretty slim and probably things like using CF with webservice interfaces behind the scenes with ASP frontend widget in Sharepoint talking to the webservices. In a sharepoint

Re: PDF Manipulation

2005-12-15 Thread Cutter (CF-Talk)
While I appreciate everyone's input, I thought CFDocument was a MX 7 feature? I did look at iText, but haven't found anything within it that I might convert a PDF to an image. I'll take another look, but if anyone already has some insight please share. TIA Cutter Paul Hastings wrote:

Data Exchange Languages: What to do about empty values.

2005-12-15 Thread Jim Davis
I think this is a generic question that's faced by most XML-based data exchange languages (WDDX, XML-RPC, SOAP, etc) but I'm using YODEL. The problem is that we have fields in the datasource which allow nulls in typed cells (most DBs do this: a column can be number or Boolean but still allow

RE: Data Exchange Languages: What to do about empty values.

2005-12-15 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Jim, How should a data exchange language deal with this? With a typed cell but no value? For example In WDDX you might see: number/number In YODEL you might see: d type=number/d In XML-RPC you might see: valuei4/i4/value The problem w/any data exchange language is your potentially

Re: Data Exchange Languages: What to do about empty values.

2005-12-15 Thread Jim Davis
Jim, The problem w/any data exchange language is your potentially exchanging data between 2 different languages that aren't really compatible. For example, ColdFusion has no concept of null data. JavaScript actually has two different states of variables without values--undefined and null (which

Re: GIF Pipes/AJAX/async gateway

2005-12-15 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Thanks Jamesand my heads clearer today...I can see the light!! ;-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com

Re: Data Exchange Languages: What to do about empty values.

2005-12-15 Thread Jim Davis
Well - some simple tests with CFWDDX shows that empty strings are fine (as you'd expect). For other simple values (booleans, dates and numbers) empty tags result in errors. For complex types (arrays, recordsets, structs) it will create a default (empty) object. I'm not sure if all the

CF7 ignores client var db reassingment?

2005-12-15 Thread Matt Robertson
Can anyone come up with a reason for this: Yesterday I realized my CF7 installation was storing client var data in the registry. So I re-pointed it to the SQL Server dsn I had already set up for it (not sure how it got set to Registry but thats another issue). It immediately began storing data

CF7 and network resources

2005-12-15 Thread Jacob
Is there anything different when it comes to network resources and CF MX 7? On CF 6.1, I had no problem reading access or fox pro databases or writing files across the network. On CF 7.0, I cannot read databases or write files across the network. Locally, on the server, I have not problems. I

RE: CF7 and network resources

2005-12-15 Thread Ian Skinner
What configuration (standalone, multi-home, j2ee) do you have CF7 running under, is it the same as your CF6.1? Is there an OS difference? We had some permission difficulties when we went from MX6.1 Standalone on a Win2000 server to CF7 multi-home on a Win2003 server that took us a bit to

RE: CF7 and network resources

2005-12-15 Thread Jacob
From 6.1 on windows 2000 to 7 on windows 2003. Standalone. Outside of CF 7. I have not problems. I can write files across the network. Using CF 7, I get either file not found or a table does not exist. -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

RE: CF7 and network resources

2005-12-15 Thread Jacob
My error is: An error occurred when performing a file operation write on file x:\123.txt. The cause of this exception was: java.io.FileNotFoundException: x:\123.txt (The system cannot find the path specified). If I use UNC mapping, I get bad username or password. Both servers in question have

RE: CF7 and network resources

2005-12-15 Thread Ian Skinner
From 6.1 on windows 2000 to 7 on windows 2003. Standalone. One of the places we have had difficulty is the stricter standard security setting of Wind 2003. You might look at the user you set up for the cf-service. Is it what it needs to be, to do what it needs to do under the new

Re: PDF Manipulation

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Hastings
Cutter (CF-Talk) wrote: feature? I did look at iText, but haven't found anything within it that I might convert a PDF to an image. I'll take another look, but if anyone already has some insight please share. TIA see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13827688

OT: Displaying a Javascript menu in front of a SWF file

2005-12-15 Thread Terry Troxel
I am dynamically writing static pages as well as the menu and One of the pages calls several SWF (shockwave) files and I cannot Figure how to make the submenu slideouts display above the SWF's. Sure would appreacite any help. Terry Troxel

Re: OT: Displaying a Javascript menu in front of a SWF file

2005-12-15 Thread Jeff Small
I am dynamically writing static pages as well as the menu and One of the pages calls several SWF (shockwave) files and I cannot Figure how to make the submenu slideouts display above the SWF's. Sure would appreacite any help. Terry Troxel The Div tag is your friend.

RE: Displaying a Javascript menu in front of a SWF file

2005-12-15 Thread Figy, Kam
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14201 I believe that's what you're looking for. ~ kam -Original Message- From: Terry Troxel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 9:33 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Displaying a Javascript menu in

Performance Problem - Client Variables

2005-12-15 Thread Cornillon, Matthieu \(Consultant\)
All, I am in the process of moving a CF site from one server to another. The new site is in CFMX7. I do not have access to the administrator settings, as I have to work through someone in another department on this. The problem is that I have ~8.5 seconds (+/- 0.2 seconds) delay on each page

Re: Group Query help.

2005-12-15 Thread Nomad
Hi Bobby, I am using SQl Server 2000. Ben Sorry for the delay in my reply. - Original Message - From: Bobby Hartsfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 3:34 AM Subject: RE: Group Query help. The only thing I can think of off the

Re: Performance Problem - Client Variables

2005-12-15 Thread Matt Robertson
On 12/15/05, Cornillon, Matthieu (Consultant) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) In the CF Administrator, it seems that you set the client variable store for the *server* and not for the specific CF application. Is that correct? In other words, if I have two applications, named application_one and

Re: more of my SQL issues :)

2005-12-15 Thread John Wilker
no one? On 12/14/05, John Wilker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ha ha, hopefully. Anyone? Anyone? Beuller? On 12/14/05, James Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doh! I'm an Oracle person - maybe someone else can help. -- John Wilker Writer/Web Consultant www.johnwilker.com /

RE: Performance Problem - Client Variables

2005-12-15 Thread Matthew Walker
People seem to have no end of problems with client variables. One problem is they are a database hit on every request whether you use them or not. Another is that bots fill up your database and then weird things start happening (see my thread yesterday RSS looks ok but not ok). We found that

RE: Performance Problem - Client Variables

2005-12-15 Thread Matthew Walker
Ahem... cfcomponent output=No cffunction name=init returntype=client output=no cfargument name=datasource type=string required=yes cfargument name=clientId type=string required=yes

RE: more of my SQL issues :)

2005-12-15 Thread Ian Skinner
This will not get you to the lists you want yet, but see if this produces the correct dataset? SELECT P.id, P.Number, P.TheYear, P.Price, P.ShortDesc, P.LongDesc, P.Status, P.width, P.height, P.Weight,

Re: more of my SQL issues :)

2005-12-15 Thread Deanna Schneider
Have you tried something like this (not sure about the inner join clause, since I don't know what your db schema really is - I'm guessing there). SELECT P.id http://p.id/, P.Number, P.TheYear, P.Price, P.ShortDesc, P.LongDesc, P.Status, P.width, P.height, P.Weight, t.type, CASE WHEN TYPEIDFK = 1

cfloop vs cfoutput query - best practice

2005-12-15 Thread Charlie Hanlon
First, thanks to all who communicate via cf_talk. I have learned alot about my trade from all of the contributors. While its a rare occurance, when I am able to provide insight regarding someone's inquiry, I do so. My question is, if I need to loop thru a query result set and will be not

Re: cfloop vs cfoutput query - best practice

2005-12-15 Thread Will Tomlinson
Ben Forta ran some tests on this one a while back, and I think it came out pretty even. You can probably google it and find his results. Will ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking

Re: more of my SQL issues :)

2005-12-15 Thread Aaron Rouse
I do this in Oracle with a function I wrote. I'd think you could do a quick and dirty function in MSSQL that builds the list to return based off a query to the database and looping over that and concatenating them all. This is not the method I took in Oracle but seems like it would work. On

Re: cfloop vs cfoutput query - best practice

2005-12-15 Thread Will Tomlinson
Here it is: http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/41568.htm Will ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message:

Re: cfloop vs cfoutput query - best practice

2005-12-15 Thread Barney Boisvert
I prefer CFLOOP for all my query looping needs (even when I'm outputting) assuming I don't need the grouping provided by CFOUTPUT. I don't know if it's more efficient, but I think it makes the code easier to read. cheers, barneyb On 12/15/05, Charlie Hanlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First,

Re: cfloop vs cfoutput query - best practice

2005-12-15 Thread Matt Robertson
IIRC, it doesn't matter anymore in terms of speed with CF6+ As a matter of personal preference, if there's no output I use a loop. If there *is* output and I am using a loop I make sure I put the cfoutputs outside the loop, but again I don't believe that makes any difference unless you are on CF

Re: more of my SQL issues :)

2005-12-15 Thread John Wilker
Ian and Deanna you guy's approach makes sense. Grouping should get me to the last stretch. Aaron, I'm sure a quick and dirty MSSQL function would work if I had any clue as to writing one :) But I think I can get where I need to be from the two queries provided, thanks all. J On 12/15/05,

Re: cfloop vs cfoutput query - best practice

2005-12-15 Thread Bryan Stevenson
used to matternot anymore...if ya want the technical details I can fill them in for you...I use CFLOOP exclusively Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: Performance Problem - Client Variables

2005-12-15 Thread Cornillon, Matthieu \(Consultant\)
All, Thanks for your input on the client variable problem I mentioned. Turns out that the problem was that the client variable store table (in an ODBC datasource) was not indexed properly. Never would have tracked that down if you all hadn't given me the hints that you did. Major problem

RE: cfloop vs cfoutput query - best practice

2005-12-15 Thread Andy Matthews
That's not possible. What if you want to group on a column? Cfloop can't do that, only cfoutput. How do you get around that limitation? Because I would maim to be able to use group with cfloop. !//-- andy matthews web developer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530

AJAX related: onClick grab all form elements

2005-12-15 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Hey All, Now that I'm looking into AJAX, I'm wondering how I can grab the values of ALL form elements with an onClick event? I'd like to grab them all as a structure or array and send the FORM scope off to a CFC to perform server-side validation and passback the results (i.e. avoid the full

Re: cfloop vs cfoutput query - best practice

2005-12-15 Thread Bryan Stevenson
That's not possible. What if you want to group on a column? Cfloop can't do that, only cfoutput. How do you get around that limitation? Because I would maim to be able to use group with cfloop. Well yes it is possible if you never (at least not in about 5 years) use the grouping ability of

RE: AJAX related: onClick grab all form elements

2005-12-15 Thread Ben Nadel
I am not nearly good at AJAX, but I assume you would have to loop through the form elements: For (var strKey in objForm.elements){ Var objElement = objForm.elements[strKey]; // Check which type of element it is (NOT SURE OF SYNTAX HERE) Switch (objElement.type){

Re: AJAX related: onClick grab all form elements

2005-12-15 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Thanks Ben and I see now I should have mentioned that this is not an AJAX solution I'm after (just that AJAX is why I'd be doing this). It will most likely be a JavaScript solution. That would certainly workI'm just hoping there is a simpler way like in CF where you can just use

RE: AJAX related: onClick grab all form elements

2005-12-15 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 5:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: AJAX related: onClick grab all form elements Hey All, Now that I'm looking into AJAX, I'm wondering how I can grab the values of ALL form elements

re: AJAX related: onClick grab all form elements

2005-12-15 Thread dave
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RE: cfloop vs cfoutput query - best practice

2005-12-15 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
I doubt you'll see a big performance hit either way. It would probably be mostly up to you and what you find easier to read/follow when looking at your code. Generally speaking though, most people would expect to have something displayed between cfoutput tags and would probably use cfloop in this

Free CFC CRUD Wizard for HomeSite+/CF Studio

2005-12-15 Thread Stan Winchester
I just posted a new version of the Free CFC CRUD Wizard for HomeSite+/CF Studio. http://www.aftershockweb.net/forums/downloads/CFC_CRUD_wizard_b0.6.zip If you use the wizard, PLEASE post feedback on: http://www.aftershockweb.net/forums/forums.cfm/ConferenceId/8 I would especially like for you

RE: CFC for Image Manipulation

2005-12-15 Thread Jennifer Gavin-Wear
Hi Adrian, I'm using Image Magick on a dating site, been using it for about 18 months. I'd say the quality is very good. www.chicksnchaps.co.uk if you want to take a look. I'm also building it into eCommerce apps with no problem. Jenny -Original Message- From: Adrian Showater