Scheduling e-mails to be delivered at a specific time...

2007-02-05 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
I've got a unique problem that ironically I've never run into before, so I'm just looking at ideas on how to solve this problem. I need to modify some code so that e-mails being generated are scheduled to go out at a time other than when the code is executed. Obviously, I could create a table whe

RE: Copying specific company data to a new database...

2007-01-29 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Doug, >Here is a little something that I found. > >http://www.sharewareconnection.com/export-schema-to-sql-for-sql-server.htm I can copy the entire database w/no problem. The issue is that I need to take our database and create a copy that only contains the records from a specific company. So i

Copying specific company data to a new database...

2007-01-29 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
I have a MSSQL database w/a lot of tables. I've got to copy all of a company's data from one database into a brand new database. The database should have all its foreign keys/primary key relationships defined (with one exception.) I can write scripts by hand, but that will take a while. There's a

RE: xStandard error

2007-01-04 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Ian, How are you using your license? I've found XStandard support very easy to work with and very responsive. -Dan >-Original Message- >From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:11 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: xStandard error > >I'm trying to evaluate x

RE: GZip using Java/CF?

2007-01-04 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Pete, Here's a UDF I wrote that would take a gzipped string and extract it to memory. I'm using it for the reverse of what you need. However, it shouldn't be hard to reverse the logic flow. (I'm using it to expect a gzipped XML packet and convert it to a string w/out writing to disk.) http://blog

RE: cfqueryparam DECREASES performance?

2007-01-02 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Ryan, I'd be interested to know if specifying the maxlength attribute in the tag would have resolved the issue. Did you try specifying the maxlength as "36"? -Dan >-Original Message- >From: Ryan Emerle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:42 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subj

RE: cfqueryparam DECREASES performance?

2007-01-02 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Benjamin, Since the list doesn't allow attachments, is your cfqueryparam tag available via a URL? -Dan >-Original Message- >From: Porter, Benjamin L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 8:58 AM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: RE: cfqueryparam DECREASES performance? > >CFQue

RE: cfqueryparam DECREASES performance?

2007-01-02 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Sometimes explicitly specifying the join hints can help if MSSQL is having problems determining the best execution plan at runtime: http://blog.pengoworks.com/blogger/index.cfm?action=blog:567 I'd only recommend specifying join hints if you're seeing a huge difference in execution times. The most

RE: Verity Category Search

2006-12-07 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Jay, The "Category" stuff in Verity v7 blows. Do you by chance have that item assigned to multiple catgories? I seem to remember when I attempted to use Categories that if you don't match *all* the categories an item is assigned to, it won't be found. Which means you can't really assign an item

RE: More CT problems today...

2006-11-28 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Will, If you don't already know, CT was hit by a pretty large DDoS attack yesterday--which is what was causing all the issues w/access. I know we got a couple of e-mails from them discussing the issue. They were also posting on their forums to keep people up-to-date. Probably could have been hand

RE: WYSIWYG Text Editors

2006-11-07 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Andy, If you download the trial, it includes those examples (in ASP and PHP.) However, Ben Nadel has CFML code you can download on his blog. (Also, there's a CFC derivative that I wrote based on Ben's work which I'll eventually release.) -Dan >-Original Message- >From: Andy Matthews [mai

RE: Stored Procedure oddity

2006-11-02 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>> if you look at the above code you'll see that the CFPROCPARAM >> is missing the DBVARNAME parameter. I don't know how it got >> passed the CFDebugger into our production environment but it did. > >It's been a while since I've had to worry about CF 5, but I don't think >that >the DBVARNAME attrib

RE: I know it sounds crazy ...

2006-10-31 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but if you're wanting your form variables to show up in the "URL" scope instead of the "FORM" scope, just change the method on the form from "POST" to "GET." This would put all form fields in the "FORM" scope: This would put all form fields in the "URL" scope: -Dan

RE: form target

2006-10-26 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Ken, >Sorry guys. I think I missed my morning coffee. I'll just re-phrase my >question. Please ignore previous post. Here goes: >My page opens a pop-up window (a cfm page). From there I want to >submit a form to the first page, the base window, and once that is >done, I want to close the pop-up. >

RE: Image upload impacting web server performance

2006-10-24 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Not I a m aware of. Bowsers are too picky about security. >Javascript has no access to any information about the file selected for >upload. >The size of the file should be available in an onSubmit event, at least. You can move to a 3rd party plug-in for Image uploading (Java/ActiveX/Flash.) Using

RE: Problem with ORDER BY clause

2006-10-23 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Rick, Are you getting an error or is just not sorting? If you're getting an error, make sure to explicitly define the columns in your ORDER BY clause: ORDER BY P.Price, P.Designer, P.Size If the columns appear in multiple tables (specified in your query) then you need to tell the query which spe

RE: URLSessionFormat() and Spry request

2006-10-21 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Walter, The problem is below is a URL derived from JavaScript code: >var request_URL >="/petitions/client/remote/authenticate.cfm?username="+uName+"&password="+u >Pass; >Spry.Utils.loadURL("GET", request_URL, false, authBack); > >which returns values as expected but does not set the session varia

RE: Best way to insert text as html, without a text editor

2006-10-20 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Will, >What's the simplest way to maintain simple formatted text in a db, without >using tinyMCE, FCKeditor, or typing html into the textarea? When I say >simple, I mean I just want to show line breaks, carriage returns, etc. Not >worried about boldness, tables, etc. > >I just tried using paragrap

RE: Compare the content two files.

2006-10-19 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Ian, >I was able to get the content comparison I needed. I think I was having >some character encoding trouble, so I made sure I spelled out the encoding >at every point I could. Then to make sure I wasn't have white space >trouble I xmlParsed() the files, they being xml files, then toString() t

RE: Mone on "missing session variables". XmlHTTP involved ...

2006-10-19 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Walter, >The following code works correctly if call directly, but if it is called >remotely (XMLHTTP, Spry) the two values are passed ok but the >session.variables are nowhere else to be seen after refreshing the page. Use the urlSessionFormat() function on the url you're calling via XMLHTTP/Spry

RE: Performance

2006-10-18 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Brian, >Not sure there is much to do be on this question but never know. > >We use seefusion to keep an eye on threads and lately the site has been >getting hit hard, what I see in seefusion though is that the same >request person is holding up 20 threads and the requests are within >seconds of ea

RE: Problems with duplicate() in MX 6.1???

2006-10-17 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Dave, > > >Immediately after this, we have a line of >code which is checking on the value of one of the global variables which >are now supposed to be available in the request.appglobal scope. However, >about 1/2 of 1 percent of the time, this line of code fails with the >variable not being foun

RE: Why does CF remove my leading 0's??

2006-10-13 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Will, >This is driving me nuts! > >No matter what I do, CF gets rid of a much-needed leading 0 in the last 4 >digits of a CC #. > >The variable looks good before sending it into a CFC, then I dump the >arguments, and the leading 0 is gone. I have the argument type set to >string. > > > >What do I

RE: Directory Watcher

2006-10-13 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
George, This is purely a guess--but I'm guessing the DirectoryWatcher gateway doesn't understand the concept of renaming a file. Try creating a text file, then modify the text file by appending some new text. Does the onChange event run then? -Dan >-Original Message- >From: George Owns

RE: Money no Object - Best Online Editor for dealing with cut'n paste from Word

2006-10-12 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Dan sounds like he knows more about this... But I think it does. You can >even drag files off of your desktop and drop them on Xstandard and they >will automatically upload. > >And, the uploading is so fine-tuned. You can choose to have it upload >automatically and integrate with some CMS and file

RE: Money no Object - Best Online Editor for dealing with cut'n p aste from Word

2006-10-12 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>The primary purpose of Word HTML generation is not, actually, to just >generate HTML. I realize that sounds pretty silly, but it's true. It's to >preserve Word's own formatting, so that if I generate HTML from within >Word, >then give that to you, and you open it in Word (!), it will retain all of

RE: Money no Object - Best Online Editor for dealing with cut'n paste from Word

2006-10-12 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Xstandard can upload the images that are embedded in the Word doc?? Yes. The Pro version does this via a webservice. Ben Nadel has posted CF versions of the webservice on his blog (which should be linked to in the original message he posted.) I took what Ben wrote and refactored it into a CFC/AP

RE: Money no Object - Best Online Editor for dealing with cut'n paste from Word

2006-10-12 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Ben, >Dan and I have both done a great deal of work with Xstandard and >ColdFusion integration and Dan, especially has done a lot of cool stuff >with component encapsulation and javascript APIs... Very cool stuff. > >I am not sure how it handles paste of nested lists, but I do know that >the lates

RE: Money no Object - Best Online Editor for dealing with cut'n paste from Word

2006-10-12 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>If you really want this, why not hack whatever editor you want and make it >so that on paste, the content is sent via AJAX to a script to be cleaned >up. One thing none of the browser-based solutions (fck, tinymce, khtml) can handle is automatic image upload. This is the reason we went w/XStandar

RE: cfindex type=file question

2006-10-12 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Dave, >Does anyone know if there is a way to index additional "searchable" content >when indexing a file with the file in the database. When I index these files, I want to be able to >index the "content" of the file along with the "description" so that if a >person types in a part of the "descrip

RE: Money no Object - Best Online Editor for dealing with cut'n paste from Word

2006-10-12 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>I am a huge fan of xstandard. There is a Free version and a Pro version. >The Pro version has most excellent word pasting abilities. > >The website is: www.xstandard.com. > >CAUTION: It does require the installation of a browser plugin. FireFox >allows you to do this automatically, IE requires a d

RE: Using CFHTTP, loading bar?

2006-10-11 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Andy, >On this page: >http://www.cfmjet.com/airports.cfm > >You'll see links to several airports. I'm using CFHTTP to load in data from >a site that has detailed information on each of these airports. You'll >notice that when you click each of the links, it takes between 10 and 20 >seconds to even

RE: Tricky Form validation Question (for me at least)

2006-10-10 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Ben, >I am pretty sure that select boxes do have a "value" attribute... Maybe >its not standard? > > > > ONE > TWO > THREE > > > >Works fine for me. That's non-standard syntax, but it works in IE. It shouldn't work in other browsers. -Dan

RE: StructFindValue Question...

2006-10-10 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Che, >Dan, unfortunately, I gave a stripped down example. The main query is more >complex (has 10 or so columns w/multiple WHERE clauses) and would not work >well with a Q of Q as dynamic values are passed to it. Any other ideas? The complexity of the original query doesn't really matter. The QoQ

RE: StructFindValue Question...

2006-10-09 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Che, You can use Queries-of-Queries: select count(OptNurseryOnly) from queryName where OptNurseryOnly = 1 That would give you the count of the number of entries that had OptNurseryOnly set to 1. (NOTE: If the OptNurseryOnl

RE: Pagination

2006-10-05 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Steve, >Other than using the TOP clause in the SELECT statement, not sure how I >would do that. Here's an MSSQL stored proc I wrote which will do what you need: http://blog.pengoworks.com/blogger/index.cfm?action=blog:546 -Dan ~~

RE: CFHTTP over HTTPS

2006-10-03 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>I have now imported the cert into the JVM keystore and it now works fine. >So I have no idea how it was working before. I wonder if they renewed their cert and it changed enough for the Java SSL libs to not accept it. -Dan ~|

RE: Disabling the back button

2006-10-03 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Will, >My buddy's testing application depends on not using the browser's back >button. If it's used, the app behaves like a disco dance floor. > >What do folks do here to disable the back button? As many have already stated, disabling the back button is a sure fire way to confuse the heck out of

RE: js problem in safari

2006-10-03 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Dave, You're basically using the Dreamweaver code--which is crap. (Pardon the language.) Anyway, I suspect the reason it's failing is because you're passing in an object to the "pv" function, but the "typeof" operator is not seeing at as "object" but as an "htmlElementNode" or something like that

RE: matching phrases with verity simple search

2006-09-26 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Robert, >== > >We are having problems making Verity search like the documentation says. > >Using CFSERACH with type=simple (and case-insensitive), we find the >following: > >- searching for the phrase, american painting, returns all records with >either american

RE: Software to Start/Stop Groups of Services.

2006-09-25 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Yeah, could do that. I as looking for something a little more robust. A >nice >little app to sit in the Windows application tray. I swear I remember a >post >on this list about this very topic. Shlomy Gantz wrote something like this a while back called Snapshot Manager: http://www.shlomygantz.co

RE: Displaying images from SQL Server in Fusebox

2006-09-25 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Chris, >Thanks for the feedback. > >Unfortunately, I have tried this too. I've even taken this solution and >placed it into its own file (dsp_getImage.cfm). Then in the calling cfm >page, used an to display the image. The image >returns broken. > >I have a feeling the image "url" isn't read co

RE: Displaying images from SQL Server in Fusebox

2006-09-25 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Chris, >I have a project where images are uploaded/saved in SQL Server. Outside of >fusebox, I can retrieve the image in various ways and display it within my >CFML page. Unfortunately, i'm required to use fusebox and have hit a brick >wall. > >The solution I thought would help me was taking fro

RE: Javascript vs. cfscript

2006-09-25 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>> the only way i can make it actually display an alert within >> javascript is if i do the following code: >> >> alert("#student.name#"); >> >> if i do the following it doesnt work: >> >> alert(#student.name#); >> >> am i doing something wrong First, in order to get the second example to work, yo

RE: [OT Ann] Debugging Toolset: Dumper, Timer, Logger

2006-09-25 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Jim, Just curious, but why did you decide to extend "Object" instead of just creating a custom static debugging object? Like: Debugger.dump(); Debugger.log(); Debugger.timer(); etc ... -Dan >-Original Message- >From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, September 24,

RE: Can 6.1 and 7.0.2 co-exist?

2006-09-21 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Trey, >Did you run into any problems running the 7.0.2 updater? My understanding >is this is when the jvm gets rev'd? No. In the way that I installed CFMX, they are completely separate installed. CFMX 6 is in one folder, CFMX 7 is in another. This means their JVMs remain completely separate and

RE: Can 6.1 and 7.0.2 co-exist?

2006-09-21 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Tony, >Up until now, I've been lucky enough to work in mostly heterogeneous >environments and not had reason to have more than one version of the server >platform deployed on my workstation. However, now I'm in a position that >will require development on both platforms. I'm running that on my l

RE: cf [-] search varchar

2006-09-21 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Paul, >yeh i dont get it >ReferAgencyNo = '91402' returns 1 search result >if i use >ReferAgencyNo like '%91%' i get an error below > >i have tried looking at ListFind, but thats not clicking.. How is your QoQ being generated? It sounds as if QoQ might be treating your varchar field as an integer

RE: cf [-] search varchar

2006-09-21 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Paul, > i am having a bit of a problem with this > >i have this search i am working on >every thing works fine, except the column that stores numbers like >1994-5668-273749-2 >it is a varchar field in the db First, is that an actual example of a phrase? For example, the LIKE operator can filter o

RE: SQL in a variable

2006-09-18 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
James, In CFMX 7, there's an attribute called "result" for the tag. This will return a struct, that contains the executed SQL statement--along with other miscellaneous information about the query. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/0316.htm#1102316 -Dan >-Original Mes

RE: Does anybody "really" understand character encodings?

2006-09-15 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Jon, >I have some users who enter data into my web application through one of >two ways: > >- copy/paste from microsoft word >- XML export from InDesign UTF-16 >- XML export from Quark > >In all 3 of the cases I've described above, the orign software is >putting through characters that do not disp

RE:

2006-09-13 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>I just saw a code sample, and verified it on the livedocs, basically: > > > >Since when did cfquery have a sql attribute, and is this deprecated or >what? Sure enough, I just found these docs on CF 1: http://docs.varda.nl/coldfusion/ch7b.htm#_Toc328065209 DBQUERY Attribute Explanation NA

RE:

2006-09-13 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Hey all, > >I just saw a code sample, and verified it on the livedocs, basically: > > > >Since when did cfquery have a sql attribute, and is this deprecated or >what? >Maybe i'm just dense, but I've never seen it before. I actually believe this is a carry over from ColdFusion v1.x, which used the

RE: Boolean use of Recordcount

2006-09-13 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Is it a good practice though? I know alot of people do it, but it just >seems >wrong to me to be evaluating a number as boolean. Personally, I like to write code that's as specific as possible. Only if a variable is to hold a true Boolean value, do I use the syntax. So, I write the statement as

RE: compacting mssql tables.

2006-09-12 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Daniel, >Hi there, rather than recreate a table I would like to compact it, so the >increment seed counter refreshes starting at 1. Is there a way to do this? You've got a couple of options. 1) You can use "TRUNCATE TABLE authors" to wipe the table and restore the identity seed. 2) Use "DBCC CH

RE: Using ParameterExists on MX7

2006-09-01 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Didn't parameterExists() not use quotes where IsDefined() does? Just >wanted >to point that out because it would be a little more than a simple mass >find/replace if quotes had to be added in but nothing a little regex >find/replace could not handle. Correct. ~~

RE: Using ParameterExists on MX7

2006-09-01 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>> Hi... just wondering how CF MX7 reacts using legacy code that >> includes deprecated tags/functions like ParameterExists etc. >> Would it generate error messages, or would it process the >> pages ignoring the deprecated code? > >"Deprecated" doesn't mean it won't work. It simply means that it ma

RE: regex help

2006-08-28 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Doug, >Was wondering how I would strip out everything between > >word and just leave the word? Rahul Narula, who works for Adobe on the web team, just posted this recently: http://rahulnarula.blogspot.com/2006/08/regex-treat.html (Watch out for line wrapping in this post, you may want to snag t

RE: Firefox vs. JavaScript

2006-08-22 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>document.all is an IE only thing. >try to stay away from it and use document.getElementById() instead. More specifically it's a depreciated object as of IE5 (maybe 5.5, but I think it was actually depreciated in v5.0.) -Dan ~|

RE: Announcing SeeFusion 4 (with Flex 2)!

2006-08-04 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Russ, >Russ, one thing to note is that the SeeFusion pricing actually uses >"per server" to really mean "per instance." So if you have the max of >what you said your infrastructure might be (2 servers * 3 instances of >CF), you would have 6 instances times $299, which is $1,794 (assuming >you get

RE: JS List items

2006-07-31 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Can someone provide an example of deleting an item from a variable based >list >item such as: 1,2,3,4,5 > >Say I wanted to look through the list to see if it contained: 3 and if so >delete it. >Is there any easier way than looping through the list to find it and >building a new >list with the oth

RE: Converting valid XHTML to Plain Text...

2006-07-28 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Denny, >SWT has a browser widget I was able to use to de-HTML some html within >eclipse... >don't know if it's even possible to use that stuff outside of SWT, but it >could be totally >possible... > >Just an idea. I meant to try to port that to cf, but never tested how good >it could >de-html (re

RE: Converting valid XHTML to Plain Text...

2006-07-27 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>On Wednesday 26 July 2006 18:23, Dan G. Switzer, II wrote: >> >Why reinvent the wheel if 'lynx -nolist -dump http://google.com' works ? >> >> Before sending the message, this was one thing I looked into. The problem >> is I am trying to covert an XHTML

RE: Converting valid XHTML to Plain Text...

2006-07-27 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Have you considered using XSL to transform it? Valid XHTML can be >considered XML and CFMX does support XSL transformations (via >XmlTransform()). Yes, I considered that. It's why I mentioned in my post. However, I'm was hoping to find an open source XSL file that someone had already worked out.

RE: Converting valid XHTML to Plain Text...

2006-07-26 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>This can be done with XSLT: plain text is one of the possible output >options. Depending on how fancy (or not) the results need to be, it might >be >a LOT of XSLT, but I'm pretty sure you're not the first person to want to >do >this, and I'd guess that you can probably find a lot of code out there

RE: Converting valid XHTML to Plain Text...

2006-07-26 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Why reinvent the wheel if 'lynx -nolist -dump http://google.com' works ? Before sending the message, this was one thing I looked into. The problem is I am trying to covert an XHTML string in memory to plain text. I tried looking for Java-based Lynx version that I might be able to use to use an AP

Converting valid XHTML to Plain Text...

2006-07-26 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
I've been looking for a good solution to this problem for a while. I'm trying to convert valid XHTML into formatted plain text. The couple of tools I've found are all command line tools, but I'm really hoping to find a java/xslt solution. So that I'm clear, I'm looking for something that would tur

RE: execute a DTS package via Stored Proc?

2006-07-24 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Ray, >>> Is there an easy way to do this? I'm trying to avoid using >>> the command-line route to do this. Seems like that it would >>> be a standard feature of SQL Server 2K to have this built-in. Here's a method that's worked for me in the past: http://www.pengoworks.com/index.cfm?action=art

RE: CFTHREAD and CFJOIN Proof of Concept Tags Posted

2006-07-21 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>> >> The problem is when your threads are named dynamically, >> >> there's no way to >> >> reliable get the thread name. >> > >> >What about using evaluate(), or thrd["#i#"], or >> >? >> >> The problem is the variable "i" can be read/written to from any of the >> spawned threads. This means the va

RE: CFTHREAD and CFJOIN Proof of Concept Tags Posted

2006-07-21 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Hows about if we had something like: > > > >This would be similar to CFQUERY's result attribute and thread-safe. That doesn't really address the problem. -Dan ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of h

RE: CFTHREAD and CFJOIN Proof of Concept Tags Posted

2006-07-21 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>> The problem is when your threads are named dynamically, >> there's no way to >> reliable get the thread name. > >What about using evaluate(), or thrd["#i#"], or >? The problem is the variable "i" can be read/written to from any of the spawned threads. This means the value of "thrd#i#" won't alw

RE: CFTHREAD and CFJOIN Proof of Concept Tags Posted

2006-07-21 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>There IS a new thread scope, Damon talks about it in the readme that >comes with the files (and on his blog?). You reference it by the name >of the scope, which you set in the name attribute of the cfthread tag. > >So in your example, instead of doing: > >You'd want to do: > The problem is when

RE: CFTHREAD and CFJOIN Proof of Concept Tags Posted

2006-07-21 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>I hope so, and maybe Damon will respond, but I know his blog post says >that they have no plans to support this proof of concept code in the >future, and they have no plans to add it to a future release. But I >know that's probably just avoiding a 'future looking statement', so my >guess is it wi

RE: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-20 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Andy, >The NewAtlanta folks are adding CFTHREAD/CFJOIN to BD7. It allows you >to fire off an asynch request and then "get it back". > >Looks like Damon and the CF folks are going to give us this as an >unsupported(?) addon. Thanks for the response, that clears it up! _Dan ~

RE: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-20 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>FYI, just doing some testing on these tags (cfthread and cfjoin) and I hope >to have them posted on my blog today or tomorow. They'l require CF7, but >Standard Edition is fine (Enterprise not required). Just out of curiosity, what is cfjoin? -Dan ~~

RE: Internet Explorer Problem - Named windows keep respawning....

2006-07-17 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>I have randomly run into this problem before where new windows spawn >instead >of using existing windows, or even a new window spawns for each link for >form submit. >The problem does just go away by itself after IE is closed down or after a >reboot. The problem is at one client's location (and o

Internet Explorer Problem - Named windows keep respawning....

2006-07-17 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
We have a client that is having a problem w/named windows. While logged on to the application, explicitly named windows will keep spawning off new windows. The problem is acting like Internet Explorer 6 is operating in self contained execution path--where windows A doesn't see named windows from

RE: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-17 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>That wouldn't be asynchronous though. Because his page would wait for >the CFHTTP to complete. > >One alternative would be to call a cfm file in an iframe, and then use >javascript to redirect the main page. > >The request in the inline from would continue to run even though the >browser isn't at

Purging a Verity CategoryTree in CFMX 7?

2006-07-11 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Is there a way to purge a specific category tree in CFMX7? The only way I've found to do it so far is by individually deleting each item in a category tree, but that take 60+ seconds on 33 items. Per the suggestion of someone at Adobe, I'm trying to re-write an application that had a bunch of diff

RE: JS Pop-up Window problems...

2006-07-07 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Tabbrowser Extensions is notoriously buggy. I used to prefer TabBrowser >Preferences, but these days I use Tab Mix Plus, which does the job of >about 4 of my previous extensions. :) Since FF v1.5, they've pretty much implemented everything feature I used to use a Tabbrowser extension for (I use

RE: JS Pop-up Window problems...

2006-07-07 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Just wanted to give an update on the issue my client was having with Firefox. I finally was able to schedule a WebEx demo with the client. After some debugging, we discovered that the browser was crashing on the window.close() method (and any variation of it, i.e. self.close(), etc.) Anyway, boot

RE: multi-lingual spell checker recommendations

2006-07-06 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Yeah I was thinking of updating the interface that I have made to run with >AJAX request. One of the moans that the user has is that when adding a >word to a dictionary, if the word appears twice in the text, it finds it as >mispelt after adding. Once all is processed then it does not appear, bu

RE: multi-lingual spell checker recommendations

2006-07-06 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Martin, >Hello I am looking for a multi-lingual (French and English UK) spell >checker for a client. I have provided one using Jazzy from this >tutorial http://cfdj.sys-con.com/read/42120.htm but the client is not >happy with it. Personally I think it works fine but the guy is >expecting a Word

RE: CFFILE uploads

2006-07-03 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Well, I guess you could do it the traditional way (e.g iframes) and set the >Target to _top That's what they USED to do, but the main reason that I >want this is so I can show a spinner thingy that says loading... please be >patient You wouldn't even have to post the file to an IFRAME to

RE: JS Pop-up Window problems...

2006-06-30 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Why don't you use windows remote assistance to connect to your clients >machine and view the problem for yourself. Easier said than done. They like to keep e-mailing us about complaining about the problem, but they don't like answering our questions or calls. Ce la vie... -Dan ~~~

RE: JS Pop-up Window problems...

2006-06-30 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>OH yes!!! Any number of software out there can cause different effects on >pop-ups! Spam tools, anti-virus tools, firewall tools, computer clean up >tools, pop-up blocker tools, browsers just to name a few off the top of my >head. > >Using JavaScript pop-ups in today's world anywhere where one ca

JS Pop-up Window problems...

2006-06-30 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
We've got a client who's complaining of some various JS window pop-up problems. The problems they're having doesn't affect every user, but most of them. Here's a list of problems they're saying they have: 1) In IE, they claim a particular alert window (create with the window.open() method) keeps

RE: FJAX - discuss amongst yourselves

2006-06-23 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Bryan, >> If you're just updating certain "values" on a page, then returning a >native >> JS object makes a ton of sense. >> >> -Dan > >OK Danshow me an example (I think I see where you're going, but that >situation...at least for the apps we build would be few and far between). Ok, here's a

RE: FJAX - discuss amongst yourselves

2006-06-23 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
> I also actually like getting a >> JavaScript object with which I can work rather than being forced to >> get back HTML to use in an object's innerHTML property. > >Care to elaborate with an example James? > >So far I love getting back the HTML stringmakes changing the UI dead >simple I'm not

RE: FJAX - discuss amongst yourselves

2006-06-23 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
>Exactly. Returning JS or at least JSON makes more sense to me. One >exception might be the use of a SOAP webservice (e.g. via >Neuromancer), so that the one mechanism can drive both other server >requests and client AJAX. What would make the most sense to me was to use Flash to interface between

RE: SeeFusion question

2006-06-21 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Brad, >Any SeeFusion users out there know the answers to two quick questions? >(I'm in the process of trying to sell it to my boss) > > > >1) Using the JDBC wrapper, will that log stored proc calls >(cfstoredproc) just like inline queries? (Our DBA won't let us use >inline q's, only procs)

RE: Recommendations: WYSIWYG/RTF applet that handles automatic image uploading...

2006-06-20 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Jim, >But the fact that it relies on a plug-in or activex control is a >problem, unless you are in a controlled environment. And, yes, the >formatting of the word document, even things like bold and font >colors, were stripped out...however the tables were kept intact. The ActiveX issue was the

RE: Recommendations: WYSIWYG/RTF applet that handles automatic image uploading...

2006-06-20 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Brian, >I don't really know anything about xStandard, but I do know that Ektron had >a WYSIWYG that did that a couple years ago when I was looking into it. I >did >seem to have some difficulty getting it to actually work properly at the >time, but one would assume that they might have worked out t

RE: Recommendations: WYSIWYG/RTF applet that handles automatic image uploading...

2006-06-20 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Rick, >Have you tried FCKEditor's "Paste from Word" functionality? It does a >pretty good job of cleaning up the crappy HTML that word produces. As my original e-mail stated, products like FCKEditor, TinyMCE, KHTML, etc don't fit my requirement. The product needs to be able to handle embedded

RE: Recommendations: WYSIWYG/RTF applet that handles automatic image uploading...

2006-06-20 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Ben, >I am a huge fan of Xstandard (xstandard.com). It's an active-x object (I >think) and it requires a browser plugin. The free version doesn't handle >file upload, but the pro version does and is awesome!!! It has web services >that allow you upload images and hook directly into the database. T

RE: Recommendations: WYSIWYG/RTF applet that handles automatic image uploading...

2006-06-20 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Tom, >Have you looked at the Jakata POI project that allows read/write of MS >formated files like Word and Excel from Java (and thus ColdFusion) ? >I don't know what state their Word support is in at the mo as it's fairly >fluid. > >There is going to be a talk at CFUNITED if you are lucky enough t

Recommendations: WYSIWYG/RTF applet that handles automatic image uploading...

2006-06-20 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Guys/Gals, I've been research WYSIWYG/RTF controls to use in our product. I'm specifically looking for control that will automatically upload images. This means you must be able to cut-n-paste from a Word document that includes images and the images should automatically be uploaded to the server (

RE: Stuck cfmail

2006-06-16 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Brian, A couple of times in CFMX 6 we had CF just stop sending mail in the spool folder. The only way to rectify the problem was to recycle the CFMX services. I'd just recycle the CF services sometime during off peak hours. I suspect that will fix your problem. -Dan >-Original Message-

RE: If a collection exists?

2006-06-12 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Dave, >In general, if you can't find a specific function that returns exactly what >you want, your best bet for these sorts of things is to use exception >handling to try something, and see if it works: > > > > > > > ... Collection already exists? > > > > >Of cou

RE: Can I use CF 6.1 and CF 7 on the same machine?

2006-06-01 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Nathan, >Nice blog post mate! If virtualisation is not an option (still to >determine this) then you may have found the solution for me. How has your >experience been running this kind of set up? Well, it's a development environment only, but I have yet to experience any problems. All I need to

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