RE: How do u send color & text fallover emails

2001-11-22 Thread Joseph DeVore
Pardeep, Basically you need to create a multipart message. If the client can *not* read HTML then they will see the ASCII text version of the message. You can create includes or you can hard code the different messages. This should get you on your way: --MULTIPART_BOUNDARY Content-Type: te

Re: VTM Files

2001-11-22 Thread Jon Hall
I haven't looked at it, but there is a downloadable VTM/WizML tutorial on the commerceblocks site that might help you out. I think they built some of the wizards that come with Studio, so it should be pretty good. http://www.commerceblocks.com/ There is also some stuff on extending Studio via wi

How do u send color & text fallover emails

2001-11-22 Thread one
Need to send color and text emails, so that the recipient sees one of the two depending upon their email client. i.e. AOL users typically cannot see HTML emails. Does anyone know of a good solution or tag to accomplish this. The ones on the Allaire site so far are very buggy and don't work. Appre

CF Stylesheets output formatting

2001-11-22 Thread Benjamin Falloon
Hi all, I'm making a dynamic style sheet control panel to allow the administrator of my site make changes to the style definitions of my site. My question is this: Besides using just using to output just the styles, is there a way to have the output (ie. the linked stylesheet) page have formatt

Re: VTM Files

2001-11-22 Thread Steve Reich
Thanks for the help. I solved my problem but am still looking for more information on creating VTM files. Do resources (websites, books, etc..) exist for these or is the documentation (rather shallow) with CF Studio all there is...? Thanks, Steve ~

Re: Help for //

2001-11-22 Thread Antonio Mokarzel
Bingo! I upgraded the custom tag FormURL2atributes and it worked ok. Thanks for the tip. Antonio Mokarzel - Original Message - From: "John Quarto-vonTivadar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 4:36 PM Subject: RE: Help for // > are

Re: Complete lack of locking...

2001-11-22 Thread Keith Meade
I just had a conversation with someone who pointed out something I hadn't thought of--if a browser requests a page-then the user cancels and requests another page (or hits refresh or whatever), it may be possible for the session to have multiple requests going at the CF server. So... Please let

RE: CF_Forum Source

2001-11-22 Thread Tony Schreiber
Yes, the forumspot.org software was previously sold by Allaire, before being open-sourced. There were many complaints from users who had bought that software and failed to get decent support from Allaire (presumably because noone there had written it perhaps) and I think that was of the not-so-off

Re: Complete lack of locking...

2001-11-22 Thread Joseph Thompson
I have seen first hand some "nasty" side effects of not locking. (like spontaneous re-boots and sessions getting "mixed"). Code as you please. It is your server :-) > I have never seen this stated before - can you explain further please? > I've just assumed that all session variables must be

Re: Complete lack of locking...

2001-11-22 Thread Seamus Campbell
I have never seen this stated before - can you explain further please? I've just assumed that all session variables must be locked. Ta Seamus >BTW, a corollary of this is that, if your site does not use frames, ***you >don't have to worry about locking session variables ever***. Regardless of

Re: Complete lack of locking...

2001-11-22 Thread Kwang Suh
Let me add as well that, yeah, the single threaded session thing shouldn't be such a performance downer, according to the way that it is described in the CF administrator. I just think it's been badly implemented. - Original Message - From: "Keith Meade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk"

Re: Complete lack of locking...

2001-11-22 Thread Keith Meade
Again, no-one has convinced me that the "Single Threaded Sessions" has any significant effect on performance. I believe that there is a general misunderstanding of how this feature is implemented. Here's a quote from the CF4.5 documentation... "For Session scope, you can also choose to single t

Re: Complete lack of locking...

2001-11-22 Thread Kwang Suh
> testing. Maybe I should do more. I'm generally happy with the performance of > CF and haven't felt the need to skin performance to the minimum. I'm talking waits of FIVE seconds while the CF server did it's thing. > > When you think about it, your example makes no sense. Five users with five

Re: Complete lack of locking...

2001-11-22 Thread Keith Meade
Sorry. My experience is otherwise. Not that I've done a major amount of testing. Maybe I should do more. I'm generally happy with the performance of CF and haven't felt the need to skin performance to the minimum. When you think about it, your example makes no sense. Five users with five ses

RE: Complete lack of locking...

2001-11-22 Thread Shawn Grover
For those of you adverse to locking, why not simply set the server to lock all reads? Doing so means you can refer to you session variables (and others that should be locked) without explicitly locking them, however, you do not sacrifice the performance gains (as you would going to single thread m

Re: Complete lack of locking...

2001-11-22 Thread Keith Meade
I guess I'm hoping that future versions of CF will require *less* locking. The whole locking thing is silliness that should be handled automatically within CF. But the important point is that the "Single Threaded Sessions" option makes session variable locking unnecessary. And I'll bet a dollar

Re: Complete lack of locking...

2001-11-22 Thread Kwang Suh
Not urban legend. We had the dev server here on "single threaded sessions". One user: good speed Two users: average speed Three users: slow Four users: very slow Five users: cra This was bad. Very bad. - Original Message - From: "Keith Meade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-

Re: innerHTML

2001-11-22 Thread Bryan Stevenson
or remove the 2 sets of "" at the +'s Bryan Stevenson VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. p. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Allaire Alliance Partner www.allaire.com - Original Message - From

Re: innerHTML

2001-11-22 Thread Douglas L. Brown
Thnks for the help. I finally got it, I had to do show_price_top.innerHTML = ("" + total + ""); DB - Original Message - From: "Bryan Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 10:53 AM Subject: Re: innerHTML > ditch the "" ar

Re: innerHTML

2001-11-22 Thread Bryan Stevenson
ditch the "" around price Bryan Stevenson VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. p. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Allaire Alliance Partner www.allaire.com - Original Message - From: "Douglas L

Re: innerHTML

2001-11-22 Thread Douglas L. Brown
Well it is a JS variable, how would this be accomplished? DB - Original Message - From: "Bryan Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 10:45 AM Subject: Re: innerHTML > Well for starters innerHTML only works in IE :-( > > Is

Re: innerHTML

2001-11-22 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Well for starters innerHTML only works in IE :-( Is "price" a CF variable or a JavaScript variable? If it's CF then you need the good old #price# in there. You can also ditch the = ("price"); and make it = "#price#"; HTH Bryan Stevenson VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge S

OT: innerHTML

2001-11-22 Thread Douglas L. Brown
I have a script that calculates "price" and I need it to set the innerHTML of a tag, I thought I could just say show_price_top.innerHTML = (price); but that dont work, It works if I just say show_price_top.innerHTML = ("price"); but it just puts the string value of "price" in the field Here

RE: CF Studio memory leaks.

2001-11-22 Thread E C HOF list
Hi Folks, I recommend the upgrade. The features are worth it and some of the improvements are really nice. Studio 5 isn't perfect, but Macromedia did a nice job with this version. As for crashes: Does everyone know about BugToaster? Its a little applet that runs in the system tray and catches

RE: Complete lack of locking...

2001-11-22 Thread Philip Arnold - ASP
> No offense, but it sounds like urban legend to me. Assuming it's properly > implemented, the "Single Threaded Sessions" option should only have a > significant effect in situations where two ColdFusion requests > are being made at the same time within the same session, i.e. when two > browser f

RE: CF Studio memory leaks.

2001-11-22 Thread Zac Belado
> I'm with you William. > Aside from the part of CF5S not ever crashing. > I have crashed CF5S ten or so times since I bought it. I think this problem has less to do with CF Studio and more with your OS install. I had nothing but trouble with CF Studio under Windows 98. I moved over to Win2K fo

Re: Complete lack of locking...

2001-11-22 Thread Keith Meade
No offense, but it sounds like urban legend to me. Assuming it's properly implemented, the "Single Threaded Sessions" option should only have a significant effect in situations where two ColdFusion requests are being made at the same time within the same session, i.e. when two browser framed wind

Re: How do u dynamically attach files to emails?

2001-11-22 Thread Gyrus
> I know how to do email merges in CF, but am having a problem enabling file > attachments. Keep getting an error message following the examples in the > books which says "File does not exist" - however the file does exist since > I've checked the path, etc. Sure you've got enctype="multipart/for

Re: Suppressing white space

2001-11-22 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Are you using style sheets? If so and you are using the "line-height' attribute then that will cause some scary white space in Netscape HTH Bryan Stevenson VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. p. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: VTM Files

2001-11-22 Thread Bryan Stevenson
ah...gotcha Bryan Stevenson VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. p. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Allaire Alliance Partner www.allaire.com - Original Message - From: "Steve Reich" <[EMAI

RE: Installing XP on workstation disables FTP

2001-11-22 Thread Craig Dudley
Is your network connected to the internet with a leased line? If so, what's your default gateway set to in IP protocol properties? If you know the IP of your router/gateway, make sure they match. Once that's done you shouldn't need a proxy for anything. -Original Message- From: Aidan Wh

RE: Installing XP on workstation disables FTP

2001-11-22 Thread Aidan Whitehall
> However, just because the check box isn't clicked, doesn't mean it's > not on. Apparantly the only way to turn it totally off is in the regsitry. Thanks for the info. > Can you ping the FTP server addresses? Nope. Ping doesn't seem to work (I'm on a workstation inside the network), but then

RE: Installing XP on workstation disables FTP

2001-11-22 Thread Craig Dudley
Probably not your problem then, However, just because the check box isn't clicked, doesn't mean it's not on. Apparantly the only way to turn it totally off is in the regsitry. Can you ping the FTP server addresses? -Original Message- From: Aidan Whitehall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Se

RE: Installing XP on workstation disables FTP

2001-11-22 Thread Aidan Whitehall
> It's probabyl; XP's built in firewall. > > Select properties on your LAN connection, goto advanced and either turn off > the firewall or allow FTP services. Nah... the Firewalls not enabled. Thanks anyway. -- Aidan Whitehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Macromedia ColdFusion Developer Fairbanks En

RE: cfsqltype=cf_sql_timestamp

2001-11-22 Thread Steve Vosloo
Thanks to all for the brilliant input. Finally, a solution has been found: Ciao > -Original Message- > From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1:17 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: cfsqltype=cf_sql_timestamp > > > > Your ms sql server colu

Re: CF-Flash

2001-11-22 Thread nagraj
Hai Dave, Thanks,then I will give one more try to configure the Flash Development Kit with Coldfusion With Regards Nagaraj.A - Original Message - From: "David Hannum (Ohio University)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 6:21 PM Subjec

RE: IE6 caching behaviour... all change

2001-11-22 Thread Aidan Whitehall
> Here's a suggestion, make the user-interface more usable! > > Using the back button is damn annoying if you have your browser set to "get > the file every time" or you're on a secure connection > > Have the validation set to display which fields are incorrect and re-present > the form with the

Re: CF-Flash

2001-11-22 Thread David Hannum \(Ohio University\)
Hello Nagaraj.A Flash is not a server. Flash (Flash Player) is 1) a plug-in for browsers and 2) a development tool for creating the .swf files that the Flash Player plays. (SWF is open, so you can use other tools to create them) You don't need anything for your server. You need to code your pa

RE: IE6 caching behaviour... all change

2001-11-22 Thread Aidan Whitehall
> I actually complained about this about 3 months ago and NOT one person > had an answer then. However I did find a solution, but it will depend on > how you approached the logic!! > > Do you have an online example to see!! Or a point description of the > flow of the application for this point.

RE: Complete lack of locking...

2001-11-22 Thread Philip Arnold - ASP
> AFAIK, the single threaded locking session does not mean or action this ; > > "That'd mean that only one person who access the site at a time - severely > limiting the access to the site" Sorry, true - this only effects the Sessions, not Server or Client scope I was thinking it effected everyt

RE: Complete lack of locking...

2001-11-22 Thread Neil Clark
AFAIK, the single threaded locking session does not mean or action this ; "That'd mean that only one person who access the site at a time - severely limiting the access to the site" Neil Team Macromedia ~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list

RE: Installing XP on workstation disables FTP

2001-11-22 Thread Craig Dudley
It's probabyl; XP's built in firewall. Select properties on your LAN connection, goto advanced and either turn off the firewall or allow FTP services. Should help. -Original Message- From: Aidan Whitehall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 November 2001 11:59 To: CF-Talk Subject: WOT:

WOT: Installing XP on workstation disables FTP

2001-11-22 Thread Aidan Whitehall
I've just installed XP on a workstation from which I used to be able to use FTP Voyager. Now FTP Voyager can't connect to anything and command line FTP can't connect either. BTW, we use a proxy but previously only ever configured the browser to use it. I've now also tried telling FTPV to go throu

RE: IE6 caching behaviour... all change

2001-11-22 Thread Edward Chanter
I don't know about caching but I've noticed some really odd behaviour with IE6, like it just stops being able to access web pages for no apparent reason Also some strange behaviour with redirects and cflocation tags...? On shutdown the process doesn't terminate and I have to use taskmanager to

RE: IE6 caching behaviour... all change

2001-11-22 Thread Philip Arnold - ASP
> With IE5 and "Check for newer versions" set to "Automatically", I had a > few forms that validated user input, CFABORTed processing if it failed, > user clicked the Back button, corrected mistakes and resubmitted. All > normal stuff. > > With IE6 set to "Automatically", it's re-requesting the fo

CF-Flash

2001-11-22 Thread nagraj
Hai , I had downloaded the flash component kit from macromedia.Can anybody tell wether we need to have flash loaded at server to make flash component run.I am even having trouble in making it activated. Can any body help me. Any help is really appreciable. Regards Nagaraj.A ~~

RE: I.E. caching behaviour... all change

2001-11-22 Thread Aidan Whitehall
> With IE5 and "Check for newer versions" set to "Automatically", I had a few > forms that validated user input, CFABORTed processing if it failed, user > clicked the Back button, corrected mistakes and resubmitted. All normal > stuff. OK, don't ask why but it's resolved itself and works as expec

RE: IE6 caching behaviour... all change

2001-11-22 Thread Andrew Scott
I actually complained about this about 3 months ago and NOT one person had an answer then. However I did find a solution, but it will depend on how you approached the logic!! Do you have an online example to see!! Or a point description of the flow of the application for this point. -Origin

RE: Complete lack of locking...

2001-11-22 Thread Philip Arnold - ASP
> Why not just enable the "Single Threaded Sessions" option? Doesn't that > eliminate the need to lock session-scoped variable access? DRASTIC! That'd mean that only one person who access the site at a time - severely limiting the access to the site It'd be a LOT safer to re-write the applicati

IE6 caching behaviour... all change

2001-11-22 Thread Aidan Whitehall
With IE5 and "Check for newer versions" set to "Automatically", I had a few forms that validated user input, CFABORTed processing if it failed, user clicked the Back button, corrected mistakes and resubmitted. All normal stuff. With IE6 set to "Automatically", it's re-requesting the form from the

RE: How do u dynamically attach files to emails?

2001-11-22 Thread Andrew Scott
I am assuming you are suing the cffile, if so are you sure you have the full path to it!! If you show us the code snippet I am sure we can help you better! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 22 November 2001 6:37 PM To: CF-Talk Subjec

Re: How do u dynamically attach files to emails?

2001-11-22 Thread one
I have a friend who needs to send resumes to a list of 20 companies he deals with. When he sends the email, he needs to attach a Word doc that is the relevant resume. I know how to do email merges in CF, but am having a problem enabling file attachments. Keep getting an error message following t