Well, I've lurked around here for several of months now and you're finally discussing a subject about which I have strong feelings. Homesite and CF Studio are the only tools I've ever used to develop Web apps. The Studio 5 CFML Wizards are great but should be easier to customize. The custom buttons for the tool bars are too restrictive (two characters? Come on!) but otherwise, I love it. It's particularly helpful when trying to make sense of a JavaScript with the code jammed together in a single line. (I use "Extended replace" to add a carriage return after the semicolon. It also works great for changing .css file and datasource names when re-using templates from other sites.)
I plan to continue using Studio 5 as long as it works on my operating system even though I have Macromedia Studio MX. DreamWeaver MX came with a tutorial but what I needed was a cookbook, "There's no time to drain the swamp when you're up to your sphincter in alligators!", so I never took the two or three weeks off required to learn it. Maybe someday, if I retire or go out of business. BTW, Ben, your "ColdFusion MX - WACK" is never more than a forearm's length away from me, and bless you for writing it, but it is also in the form of a tutorial, which makes digging out the moment's essential code a more time consuming effort than it could be. (See "HTML, XHTML, & CSS, Sixth Edition" by Elizabeth Castro for a sample of the "cookbook" format to which I refer.) Sorry to be so wordy but my purpose in posting is pretty simple: Please, please, please, Adobe, don't take away the best darned tool I've ever owned for programming new CF apps! Dave Long, Owner, Janitor, & Snake Oil Technician NorthGoods Merchant Services http://www.northgoods.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:296044 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
