When Macromedia met with us and asked us about what we would like to see in Dharma,
this is one area that we highly recommended. We had seen this done with both Vignette
and SilverStream so we knew it could be done. Steve has demonstrated that it can be
done with Spectra - Macromedia we hope you are following what Steve has done and
leverage his work!!!
Lanny Udey
Hofstra University
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, April 17, 2001 >>>
Well, I hope I am not reinventing the wheel. I figured they would never do
this themselves.
At 07:05 PM 4/17/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>My $.02 - if there's a bright future for Spectra that Macromedia can provide
>it's right there: integrating it with UltraDev.
>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Steven A. del Sol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >>Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 5:36 PM
> >>To: Spectra-Talk
> >>Subject: Re: Globally change UUID's
> >>
> >>
> >>I can get Site designers to work for me at a very low cost.
> >>To get a CF Programer who understands Spectra the cost
> >>of staff jumps up significantly.
> >>
> >>If you have ever used Dreamweaver(ultradev) you know
> >>that through javascript windows (extensions, similar to
> >>cf tags) you can create a sequence of actions. I am
> >>developing the base to complete a Spectra imple-
> >>-mentation. I am sure there will be quite a bit of
> >>debugging but once complete I can implement
> >>Spectra with the help of just a few standard
> >>Dreamweaver (wysiwyg) designers.
> >>
> >>Pros:
> >>Better design functions
> >>
> >>Less technical knowledge needed.
> >>
> >>Faster Implementation of site.
> >>
> >>Less hassle creating object handlers.
> >>
> >>Easier integration into flash.
> >>
> >>DHTML the site with full functionality with CF (this was the
> >>first thing
> >>completed)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Cons:
> >>Function is limited to the interface.
> >>
> >>Slows progress unless constant development to interface is made.
> >>
> >>Less control of UUIDS ( I thought this would be easy but it's
> >>kicking my
> >>butt. )
> >>
> >>Requires design system to have at least 128megs of memory.
> >>
> >>Currently, I need four pages open and unfortunately I do not
> >>know how to hide
> >>them from the user. They might get confused and try to edit them.
> >>I use activeX to make changes with a vbscript macro.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Summary:
> >> It pretty much works but does have minor bugs. I have put
> >>text on the Two "Do not edit this page" pages. The design time
> >>has cut by over 75% and just about everybody can use it. Best of
> >>all was that Fireworks works great. Using a handler and CFFILE I
> >>can up load a sliced Fireworks image and treat it as an object not
> >>having to write a single line of code to implement it, rollovers and
> >>all. (That feature happened by accident)
> >>
> >>Was it what your were thinking? If so good. Some day if I ever get to
> >>writing the documentation I might try to sell it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>At 03:15 PM 4/17/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >>>Steve,
> >>>
> >>>Can you elaborate a little more about what this actually
> >>does. If you are
> >>>doing what I think you are doing it sounds really interesting.
> >>>
> >>>Lanny Udey
> >>>Hofstra University
> >>>
> >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, April 17, 2001 >>>
> >>>I am writing a Macromedia extension to perform handlers so my less
> >>>experienced developers can manage elements of Spectra. I
> >>have almost all
> >>>of it working including over 280 tags...but I am running
> >>into issues within
> >>>the updating of path variables in Spectra, for some reason
> >>the UUIDs that I
> >>>create using my Ultradev (Dreamweaver) Interface are not
> >>being stored in
> >>>the right containers. I am so close...Maybe just burnt out
> >>on the code...
> >>>Is there anyone that would like to help me solve and beta this
> >>>product. Its a 4meg file with 215 extensions that fit into
> >>8 object menus
> >>>in Ultradev 4.0. Lots of script. I need help...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Steve
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Steven A. del Sol
> >>>NETPACQ Internet Systems
> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>http://www.netpacq.com
> >>>-----------------------------------------
> >>>Vendor Representative
> >>>San Diego Cold Fusion
> >>>User Group
> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>http://www.sdcfug.org
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
>
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