>>Hope it helps. Sorry if it's not too helpful, I am sorta buzzed. LMAO. Me too. Got in to a beer fueled coding session....
"what would happen if I ..." "I wonder if I could ... Nope... Dammit... Infinite loop" "Huh... I wonder what that would do.... Whoaaaa, COOL!!!!" Thanx Guys ~G~ On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:46 AM, denstar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Gerald Guido wrote: > >>>Use cfinvoke. > > > > Thanx James > > > > I thought about that, and you are right. But I was hoping to keep it in a > > cfscript block. > > > > Is there a way to do that? This is more of an academic pursuit than a > > practical one btw. Just digging in and seeing what I can do more than > > anything else. > > Heh. Building CF and executing it with evaluate is pretty fun, you > can do some not-often seen things that way... > > Another way is using [insert whatever it is called here], like with > javascript. > > I'm not sure about your exact problem, sorta calling components > dynamically, but you can do stuff with functions, that might lead you > towards the knowledge you seek. > > Here's an excerpt from something I was just playing with a while ago: > http://tools.assembla.com/svn/denny/cfparser/den/cfparser/ui/cfparserui.cfc > > <cffunction name="runmethod" output="false"> > <cfargument name="methodname" default="main" /> > <cfset var funk = "" /> > <cftry> > <cfset funk = this[methodname] /> > <cfreturn funk() /> > <cfcatch> > <cfdump var="#cfcatch#"> > <cfabort /> > </cfcatch> > </cftry> > </cffunction> > > Basically as sort of a controller type deal. With the direct > assignment of objects and functions as variables (or some type of > language like that), you can dynamically call stuff. > > I think this is, probably, NOT very nice, "pattern" wise (too flexible > ;-]), so if you're trying to get away from evaluate... dunno if > getting similarly loc (in a different way) is the best idea. > > It's good for getting the job done, but as you can see from the above, > it can get messy pretty fast, if you don't keep it in line (things > that would make my example better would be checking metadata for the > function's existence and whatnot, for instance... stuff to at least > make debugging easy and whathaveyou, I guess... I'm horrible, because > I already know where to look... someone else wouldn't. -- And me 5 > years later might not either, right? right.). > It should be easy to trace what's happening, basically, and stuff > that's *too* dynamic can be *too* hard to diagnose. > > It's fun stuff tho, and like all things, used right... can be just > dandy. I reckon. > > Hope it helps. Sorry if it's not too helpful, I am sorta buzzed. > > -- > The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the > aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental > juggling with fictions that did not interest me. > Karl Jaspers > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:311867 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
