" And if you've never tried to work with printing from ColdFusion"
I have, and have never had a problem. I enjoyed utilizing a solution that was not CF specific, so that it was quite portable. I think that printing would be problematic, considering how it would need to be implemented - ASCII? HTML? RTF? PDF? You have to send something to the printer, that the print driver knows how to render. This would be a pretty significant undertaking, to do the rendering. Or, you let the applications that already know how to render and spool do it, as you do now. When I develop a non-web application that uses a pre-defined format, I don't have to redevelop the printing capability - I simply utilize an existing object. This is why CF doesn't have it's own SQL engine to integrate with external databases - it uses drivers. --- Billy Cravens -----Original Message----- From: Matthew R. Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:54 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFMX OK, so you don't like it. I do. It's a feature that MANY people would love to see. I use it extensively for my intranet applications. Ever notice how many people write to the lists wanting to print locally from the server to generate reports? It's a good idea, something that would make a ton of people happy, including myself. Server generated reports have been a feature of computing for a long time. And if you've never tried to work with printing from ColdFusion, then you don't know what a pain it is. Word, PDF... they do the job, but not "quite well". - Matt Small -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFMX I don't like the idea of an app server performing hardware-related functionality - otherwise we'd need <cfscan>, <cfwebcam>, <cfsound>, etc. :-) Besides, think of how printing works - you write a file to the mail spool. What format would a server-side print app use? Why bother when there's already a number of applications (Word, PDF apps, etc) that do this quite well? --- Billy Cravens -----Original Message----- From: Matthew R. Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:38 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFMX Yes, I meant local printing from the server and native support - like a printer setup in the administrator; a CFPRINT tag... <sigh> I do it already using COM and Word. It works but it's a pain in the butt. - Matt Small -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:19 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFMX You mean printing via CF, on the _client_ box? That's impossible (unless you use some kind of activex or java ob). If you mean on the server - all you would need to do is use a command line call w/ cfexecute. ======================================================================= Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Macromedia Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew R. Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:22 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CFMX > > > OK, now that the cat's out of the bag... is there, by chance, any > support for printing, either local or across the internet? > > - Matt Small > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:12 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CFMX > > > Question: Under web servers in the system requirements > > section, WebSite Pro is glaringly absent. How come? Will > > it run under WS? > > I don't know the definitive answer to this, but I think that the final > version will support WebSite. I'm basing this on the fact > that JRun 3.1 > currently supports WebSite. Keep in mind that the CF MX > preview may not > be > fully feature-complete; it's a preview. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > voice: (202) 797-5496 > fax: (202) 797-5444 > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
