No, no, no, I wasn't looking for someone to blame, consider the attack on my
box yesterday as a car accident as someone has so vividly alluded to,
well, someone was saying, hey, why were you on road, I have the right to hit
your car even if you're following traffic rules?
Yes, I do have
Ok, since we're at it and I don't mind if you compared it to 'theft', well, let
me say this, the 'windows'/'doors' were all locked but as you mentioned, but
hardened criminals would probably have a way to get it. Yes, I'm not saying
not to put up a defense/protection. You know what, someone
Well, on the other hand, one has to be aware these folks' job, at least, for
some of them, IMI (in my igorance), has to come up with some innovative ideas,
to identify these types of solutions, silly of me to start this thread to sound
like I'm 'smart'.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
No doubt, it's cool and its presentation element is great. Forget
about its history, started to use it since I was a kid, all right,
just kidding...
What my pet peeve about it has two folds:
a) One can't do a {valign} within the context of CFGRIDCOLUMN, each
row to be verticably
No doubt, it's cool and its presentation element is great. Forget about its
history, started to use it since I was a kid, all right, just kidding...
What my pet peeve about it has two folds:
a) One can't do a {valign} within the context of CFGRIDCOLUMN, each row to be
verticably aligned is
Glad you worked it out.
Ok, I have my initial problem solved with passing data to my cfwindow.
Thanks for the help! Starting a new thread for the next road block I am
having.
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I'm reading it from a browser.
Yeah, the way gmail handles the list is one of the big reasons I
re-subscribed to this list awhile back. I would think there are some
desktop email clients that would handle things like this but never looked
for one.
Yes, the simpliest way looks like this
cfwindow title=My Cool Window source=neatStuff.cfm?param1=value1/
But probaby you were looking for something more complexed? Yes? Like from
cfpod or another cfwindow? And that's doable as well. The problem in my
experience lies in multiple browser
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Archive:
The app has a main window, which has a layout and its areas.
Everything works as designed for IE7 (not bad for IE6), however, FireFox
version 2.0 does not seem to like it much. Specifically, dupe tabs. With FF,
the app screen looks like this:
[tab 1] [tab2] -- appear to be called from
A more efficient way would be (provided you're using enterprise-grade DBMS):
cfquery datasource=test_shop
if not exists
(SELECT *
FROM orders
WHERE PRODUCTID = {cfqueryparam...})
begin
INSERT INTO orders (productID)
VALUES ({cfqueryparam...})
end
Hi,
These cfajax family tags are inside a cfwindow. Display is fabulous with IE7,
not bad with IE6, however, tabs display are too closely layered with FFv2, with
FF it kind of looks like this,
[tab logout] [tab main]
[tab logout] [tab main]
while with IE
it looks as expected
[tab logout] [tab
The app has a main window, which has a layout and its areas.
Everything works as designed for IE7 (not bad for IE6), however, FireFox
version 2.0 does not seem to like it much. Specifically, dupe tabs. With FF,
the app screen looks like this:
[tab 1] [tab2] -- appear to be called from
Hi,
I did some quick research for an Alert component/function to no avail. Here's
the problem/objective statement.
Say, my schedule data is stored in a db table, I would like to be alerted 30
minutes
or 45 minutes or whatever you name it before the the event and also let's
assume I'm at my
Thank you, Josh, isaac and Will,
Yeah, javascript approach would be more efficient performance-wise, and yet as
issac so elegantly put it, Flash or Flex or Air as Will pointed out, would be
more appealing. My limited experience with Flex suggests that its loading is
just too slow or because
I understand Word doc is binary... thanks for the note though.
I do not think there is a way to extract text only from a binary Word
document without using a third party component such as POI
http://poi.apache.org/hwpf/
Excellent point, Dave, thanks. On 4. Block external access to the built-in
web server., does any of cf8 resources/functions/tags depend on it? If not I
would simply disable it.
The CF Administrator is just a web application. You can control or prevent
access to web applications through
For cf8 on Windows platform, I wish it has an option of disabling remote admin
access, that is, an option to make
http://www.myDomain.com/cfide/administrator/index.cfm unavailable.
I also wish, the cfadmin directory path is relative, hence, if one renames the
'administrator' directory to
Has anyone done that? the CFcontent tag is the closest thing pops up, it does
some job but still have tons of garbage. If possible I prefer not to use third
party bla bla.
Thanks.
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Actually it's more than one question, but let me start with this,
a page has the following javascript code for inserting a link and in its
display section, it used RegExp to show all/any cap {WORD} in navy color.
Status:
a) Without the js, the regExp works fine.
b) With the js, a long
Hi,
I just noticed that for special characters like lt; myName at thisEmail
address gt;
the regular and signs would cause display problem (not being displayed),
so, one solution is to transform them before data capture. Any other similar
characters that we should be aware of / be cautious
Thank you, Charlie, you're exactly right, don.
HTMLEditFormat() ?
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Thank you a ton, Dave. Oh my my, this sort of thing I knew years ago but now I
totolly forgot, maybe it's two steps forward and one step backward...
These are called metacharacters. Here's a list of HTML metacharacters:
http://www.netstrider.com/tutorials/HTMLRef/ASCII/metacharacters.html
Most
Why should there be a
whole new version of a given browser
No one says a new version, we all understand good software are nowdays made
of components, so, it's just a matter of enabling/disabling some features from
a browser developer's end... (It does not HURT you an iota and yet you get so
All right, James, we'll then split :)
My suggestion then is:
1) Check out the Firefox source code
2) Rewrite the cookie handling code
3) Compile the code
4) ...
5) Profit
On Jan 30, 2008 11:28 AM, D
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Interesting technique. I had a similar problem. Tried it with IE7 to no vail.
FF2 is just fine even without it. The weird thing is, when you switch from
another tab the problem is gone by itself. Can't test it with IE6 now.
Update:
This code is more efficient:
style type=text/css
Ok, got you, so, in essence it's really you pay what you get, 'academic' less
than 'standard', 'standard' less than 'enterprise'...
Thanks.
No, it doesn't mean it's restricted to one IP address - it means it's
simply not going to cope with enterprise-level demand. Some of the
features are
Thank you, guys, for your very helpful info. It looks like I'll have to bite
the bullet (getting the standard edition...)
Ok, got you, so, in essence it's really you pay what you get,
'academic' less than 'standard', 'standard' less than 'enterprise'...
There is no academic edition. There
I know that part, thanks though. How can one as a long time cfer to get a good
deal out of this?
And, after 30 days, Trial becomes Developer.
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Not directly CF-related but web app related. I think it would be nice that
future IE and FF releases would include an option (to the effect of for public
use?), and if yes, that version of web browser would not be able to save
cookie etc. Does that make sense? At one point, I saw a user with
to the developer to do it and it's not that difficult. Ben
Nadel
just wrote an example today.
http://www.bennadel.
co m/blog/1131-Ask-Ben-Ending-ColdFusion-Session-When-User-Closes-Browser.
htm
On Jan 29, 2008 6:21 PM, Don L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Have ordered a standard edition. Though I have a license of a previous version
(even if it would work, most likely not, it won't be legal). Thanks for the
info.
and, if i am not mistaken, any time you enter a valid licence key, your
trial/dev edition turns into a standard/enterprise one.
and
Extra work, which can easily be saved.
The logic goes like this:
The use of browser in such case is already determined, that is, for the general
public or the like, hence, it's inappropriate to store cookie etc. mechanism
in such environment.
Why can't the institution in question just
This is not exactly a CF question but really related I think, so, I hope it's
acceptable. Here I'm actually talking about two things.
a) a public-facing app needs to be 'simple' (better term maybe, perceived
simple), and it needs to be elegant, the way it presents itself, the app flow
etc.
Sure thing, Nate, I hope to get rid of the 'd???' word soon :)
And probably I should say mine is a RSS ingest mini-app.
Don
Thanks Don
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ok, I see your point. Thought about the selection of pilots (not commercial
ones) would make their user community stand out already aside from training etc.
So, in a way our job is more challenging :)
could we learn something from them for web app dev?
Not really. Airplane designers have the
Have any of you used such an edition?
Used for delivering a single website or application on a single server,
ColdFusion 8 Standard provides powerful development capabilities in an
easy-to-manage configuration that is ideal for small to medium-size businesses.
What exactly does 'a single
Very difficult to read your sql stmt. One option would be like this (aliasing
column name containing # sign).
e.g.
Select [column a with # sign] as col1
From myTBL
e.g. -- s step further with the above idea
using CASE ... WHEN ... ELSE ... END as well
I have a sql query (SQL Server
A system that would ingest stories from 1+ rss feeds?
I think so. And in my view, there are at least two techniques to handle
exception gracefully using CFTHREAD tag.
a) the timeout attribute, this is an easier way to implement;
b) using a predetermined timeout, to kill a thread if it does
Never mind. I figured it out after 40 minutes this morning. Not using the
Aspell approach.
Thank you.
You should change the location of the 'spellchecker.cfm' file to the
location of the page on your local system.
As for the request var error, rerun the system after the new location has
been
Ok, Will, so, I know that's how this editor handles cache, no biggie, but the
more important thing is, are we able to make this editor not to exclude other
javascripts for the same form element as I described above?
Thanks.
Don
Yes, mine is too but I've still had to manually clear the cache
Thank you, William, I believe I was calling the 'spellchecker.cfm' file in the
correct local location. To further verify this, I tried different relative
path such as using prefix of ../ or ./ or / for {CFIDE}
When the relative path was wrong, it would prompt for {File not found}, as
expected.
Yes, the 6 steps are very clean, it saves time and I appreciate it.
But I'm got an err mgs when attempted to use the checker,
Element DATA_STORAGE_1 is undefined in REQUEST.
I was wondering about that when edited the spellchecker.cfm file per
instruction, where's the {DATA_STORAGE_1} var
I would think it should be able to. Pydu
EXEC master..xp_cmdshell '{yourBrowserExecutable.exe} then
{yourCFtemplatePath/yourCFtemplate.cfm}'
Have not tried it myself, but I really don't see any reason why not other than
security.
Hello All
Is there a way to execute a coldfusion file from a
I don't understand the business logic of
from_zip to_zip
20106 20106
(same value for from and to).
But sql-wise, it would be real simple, once you
1) finish import the excel into a db table, your table may look like this:
zipTbl
zipFrom
20106
22002
Then
2) alter your
But Will, my IE7 is configured to load page per visit, so, cache is supposed to
be gone for the {BasicEdited} in this case. But it really won't be an option
for me in this case because as mentioned it excludes other javascripts for the
same CFFORM element. Don
Outcome, FCKeditor still
William, I'm getting there...
downloaded, installed, reading up usage instruction (I'm on Windows platform
too),
my specific use of it: run it for a CFFORM cftextarea element.
so,
how's the run-with-aspell «command»?
how to call this speller, cfexecute?
or ?
Pls give me a path it would save me
Off my head, I would think around the line of,
a) offer summary for free if there's summary or the like;
b) when a) is not available, make page 1 or one third/fifth whatever BR free
c) when a is available, combo of a) + b)
I know this question has been asked many times but this one is with a little
twist.
The FCKeditor seems interesting (it has spell checking feature), however, I'm
only interested in its spell checker. Now, the Basic version in my limited
experiment did not seem to be configurable, that is, the
Thanks for the info. Approximately how long does it take to read up, install,
test and deploy Aspell option?
Don
I just finished a project with this similar vain.
I chose 2 possible solutions.
1. cf_spellchecker (there is a cost, but it is very simple to add to the
form)
2. Spellar
which is demonstrating something extremely similar to the problem I'm
Same prob here, any work-around? Thanks.
Never mind, silly me.
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which is demonstrating something extremely similar to the problem I'm
having. Silly question now but where can I check on the status of the
bug he reported?
I'll rephrase the question - where is the Adobe bug tracker so I can
add this to that ticket, they seem to be directly related.
Thanks,
Good thought, I'll keep it in mind for future need, for now the need for
printing is low. For some of the stuff, I'm just thinking loud, talking loud
and toss them around...
Thanks.
This is an FYI for further development.
I am not sure what your planning with you application, but you could
My thought was, one can print out content for each cfwindow (when you use the
right mouse click for print option with IE), however, it prints the entire page
(content of all windows). Is this divided print all something? By design?
With FF2, no print option for each window (cfwindow), so, one
Ok, thanks, printing content of a cfwindow is not critical...
Also head on over to
www.extJS.com
That is the framework that Coldfusion uses for all its UI stuff,
although Coldfusion uses version 1.0 currently it is a starting point
to learn more.
Yeah, I should have, thks.
You better do a view source on the page...
cfwindow is nothing but plain 'ol html. It's just a div tag made up to look
fancy.
It's not an iframe, which sounds like you want it to behave like.
T
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Sorry, because there's another cfwindow next to it, HTML table seems to be a
way to do it. I just disabled the table, with the same outcome, so, the HTML
table does not seem to be the culprit.
Another thing, the view source code for the cfdebug portion revealed the
following: (see my comment
This is definitely a helpful idea/take. I ran a search for all occurances of js
for the app, and manually encapsulated them inside head tag to no avail.
Thanks for being there though ...
Sorry,
I knew it wouldn't be, but the cfwindow DOES not need to be in a
table, even if there is another next
This is a great thread with very interesting inputs and I want to thank
everyone for that. Here's my take (not research result but more on 'gut'
instinct), different demographics may have a slightly different tolerant level
for page loading speed. The younger could be less tolerant of speed
I'm not sure if I'm kind of stretching cfwindow tag or simply not knowing its
intricacy with javascripts enough. In essence, I have the core of an app
running within a cfwindow (let's called it AppCore.cfm, function-wise, within
it, cfcs,modules are being called etc. etc... reasonably
Interesting thought, Andrew, I intend to place js inside header tag. Yes, they
are all inside header for this app as well. For those who might use cfwindow,
js needs to be placed at root level (where cfwindow is launched, at least
that's my experience).
Please see my response to Azadi for
Azadi,
Let me try to describe it as follows:
With cfdebug on,
a) when the the AppCore.cfm is lauched, it defaults to the {main} tab,
debugging window indicates everything is ok. and function-wise, everyting
function is working fine.
b) when the {help} tab is clicked,
debugging window has the
typo of
b) set var s for selected without opposite value of var uState
,
meant,
b) set var s for selected with opposite value of var uState
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a) when the the AppCore.cfm is lauched, it defaults to the {main} tab,
debugging window indicates everything is ok. and function-wise,
everyting function is working fine.
b) when the {help} tab is clicked,
debugging window has the following err msg:
Oh, I forgot to add,
c) after some
can you post your code? as usual, it can be a million different things
at play here...
ok, streamline them into two bare minimal:
TopLevel:
cfajaximport tags=cflayout-tab,cfform,CFDIV,CFINPUT-AUTOSUGGEST,cftooltip
html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml;
head
titlebla bla app/title
meta
This is what I want to do:
save/duplicate a copy of an uploaded XML file in case of need.
Techniques that I've tried to no avail.
Necessary bla bla:
The interface:
(It's an HTML form that provides mechnism to upload an XML file,
like input type=file name=UploadXmlFile )
The process:
a) check
Tod and Will,
Sorry, we're not on the same page yet, the source XML file is to be uploaded by
a user, so, we don't have a file sitting on the server box yet.
And yes, I've also tried something like the following to no avail.
cfset tmpFileName = tmpFile#Right(Rand(),2)#
cffile action = write
Todd,
You misunderstood what I intended to do.
form-wise, of course, for a file upload, it's like ... that's HTML 101 ...
cfform action=#CGI.script_name# method=post enctype=multipart/form-data
/cfform
I was using short-hand...
Another technique that I haven't tried yet but will work, that
Todd,
Sorry for the confusion, yes, I'll make problem statement clearer down the
road...
It's resolved. When the first two techniques failed, and third one of creating
a backup file approach did not work out neither, that technique failure was
caused by my own neglect, I should have used the
On For some reason a former employer drilled it
into the team that Auto incrementing PK's were dead weight if you could
composite a key with existing data
Joe Ceiko holds that theory and considering he's so influential in the
relational db world...
http://24.254.1.94:8000/snap823/DataMan.cfm
(Have not re-test it thoroughly)
Who could use something like that?
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oops, sorry, accesssing my old version cf admin on the same box is a pain in
??? but hang on...
You tried to access the Developer Edition from a disallowed IP ...
oops got a live server you can toss it on?
On Jan 16, 2008 3:19 PM, D
ok, just brought the dead horse back alive now :)
some may say user friendly enough, so, it's not for the general public...
thanks.
oops, sorry, accesssing my old version cf admin on the same box is a
pain in ??? but hang on...
Many thanks, Will, this is exactly what caused the problem which initially I
did not expect, I wished I checked this thread first 45 minutes ago.
One problem with FF2 remains though, that is, the following code would return a
full
window instead of current window (what size it may be)
cfform
I may be talking loud here... just a thought, if we categorize a cf app into
three main blocks of system variable (global and local), presentation/UI and
queries, would it be sensible to use cfthread for each of them and then join
them? It may pose some challenge when there's sequential
If you're proposing the use of cfthread for every user request to run
separate threads for each of the blocks you're talking about, I would say
don't. CFTHREAD is useful in certain situations but abuse of it will cause
problems.
http://www.petefreitag.com/item/650.cfm
I think you're right. Of
What I'm talking about is a cf8-based internet app that I designed and
developed with cfwindow a primary UI tool, my bet was IE (6 7) would take up
about 55~60% market share, and FireFox 2.x about 30~35%, so, it's developed
with IE6/7 while I also tested it for FF from time to time. But now
i never had any problems with cfwindow in FF...
what exactly is not working in your case?
can you post sample code to test?
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same here. if i have to tweak an app it would be so it works in IE... in
my experience, if it works in IE, it does not mean that it works - it
just works in IE, which does things its own way... if you want to make
sure it actually works - then make sure it works in FF (or other
Don,
What are your problems in FF?
Hi Mark,
cfform content is not being displayed, one culprit could be that one of the few
cfforms may not have unique name, I'll dig a bit but unlikely because
previously no such problem. In the process of streamlining process to improve
performance I may
And I will add my +1 to these responses. I develop for FF (which means
developing for standards) and then make adjustments to make it also
work in IE (trying to stick to standards where possible, hacks as a
last resort).
ok, thanks.
Good one. I thought cf8's cftextarea (of cfform) has an attribute of RichTxt
something that uses some fancy js package which has a spell check function,
which cf version are you using? Also, FireFox 2.x has built in spell check
function, but it may not suffice...
just don't use words that
I'm just designing a database and have stumbled on a situation where I am
torn between approaches and I'd like some experienced input ;)
The situation involves the following tables:
Tables:
--
* User
* Show
* Musical Number
* CreativePerson (composers, lyricists, etc)
* Actor
What I
I'd like to add some quick comments.
a) my approach is done when this particular form action usually also have some
impact on the Main/Parent window hence justification of reloading this window,
otherwise, the cost of reloading the Main window does not seem to be necessary
unless not much
I'm not sure if I can understand your question. Is it something like this
cfif isdefined(FORM.Send2Pop)
-- pop up a small window...
cfwindow...
source=popMeUp.cfm/
/cfif
-- main window
cfwindow...
...
cfform action=#CGI.script_name# method=post
e1
e2...
input type=submit
Initially my XP box failed to install Microsoft updates, so, I had a Microsoft
engineer work on it (yesterday afternoon for more than 2 hours), he did
something to my box remotely, he managed to install seven updates, now what?
All my Cold Fusion (old version as well as cf8) datasource
Thanks for the thought, Mike, I've tried this route before to no avail. Don
Don,
Go into the security center - click on the windows firewall and turn it
off (as a test). If your connects work after that you will need to work at
unblocking them before you get the FW turned back on again.
-Mark
Don L wrote:
are broken. Access denied.
Surely the error message is more descriptive then that.
Jochem
Fair enough.
a) From web app, err msg for accessing a ms sql server 2000 -based db:
[Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]Error establishing socket to host and port:
localhost:1433
Thanks for the idea, Casey, I've added the 'IUSER' account for the folder that
has the Access db in to no avail. Don
IUser needs read write modify permissions to folder containing access
databases.
Then same for all databases in that folder.
Casey
Thanks for the thought, Brad, yes, I'm using the convention of domain\instance
for sql server 2005 while localhost:{port#} for sql server 2000. They worked
fine with cf8 previously.
Just a thought, but you aren't by chance using SQL server instances, are
you?
We had some problems connecting
Casey, I spoke a bit too soon, your method solved old version ColdFusion
problem but not cf8. Thanks. Don
IUser needs read write modify permissions to folder containing access
databases.
Then same for all databases in that folder.
Casey
I'm ready to kill someone!
Initially my XP box failed to install Microsoft updates, so, I had a
...
upset... Thanks.
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About 90% resolved... malware/spyware/govware were most likely the culprit.
Thanks to those who chipped in one way or another. I'll hold the fire for now.
Initially my XP box failed to install Microsoft updates, so, I had a
...
upset... Thanks.
Azadi,
I appreciate your follow-up, yes, it's odd posting got twisted. I've taken
another approach instead of using sub template refresh function within a
cfwindow.
Thanks.
Don
my previous reply got rather garbled during the posting somehow...
the 'close cfwindow' line that appears as first
ok, it looks like
cfwindow source=Main.cfm
Main.cfm has a link to SubjectMatterXYZ.cfm which contains the following
cflayout type=tab
cflayoutarea title=Function A/
cflayoutarea title=Function B/
cflayoutarea title=Refresh SubjectMatterXYZ.cfm/
close cfwindow
How do you do
So, Azadi, does the process go like close this cfwindow and reload it?
And since we don't have some function to close a cfwindow (or I'm not reading
thoroughly on cfwindow and its related cf ajax functions), do we go about
object approach? that is, we know, this cfwindow has a name to it, say,
Did more research on the subject, found the following, am I stuck? This method
of passing a url param to the parent would be the most efficient one, binding
won't be applicable to my case here, anyone?
Also, have I offended anyone here? Things seem to be a bit odd. Thanks.
Author: Raymond
I think I'm a bit confused. What _exactly_ are you trying to do? You
say you want to pass a url param to the parent. Are you saying you
want a child window to send the parent somewhere else? Or you just
want to pass a value in JS to the parent? I'm confused.
On Dec 27, 2007 9:37 AM, D
Hi Ray,
can't you just call a js function without coldfusion.navigate?
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Right on, gents, thank you, I need to get out of the cfwindow mindset.
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