Re: CFScript Book

2012-02-21 Thread Scott Brady
As of CF9, the vast majority of CF can be written in script, if you desire. Almost every tag has a cfscript equivalent (I believe there were a few that didn't make the cut, but I can't recall which ones off-hand). Of course, some things are a bit more tedious doing them in script (such as

Re: Adding a border to text using CFImage

2012-02-21 Thread Leigh
Terry, The examples on the website say if you are using it with CFWheels you just [call the] getArt() function since it is made available to your controllers and views.. Otherwise, you need to create an instance of the component first and call init(). Then use yourInstance.getArt() instead of

RE: Adding a border to text using CFImage

2012-02-21 Thread Terry Troxel
Leigh, Here is my test page using the Basic Example as you said: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head titleUntitled/title /head body cfset wordart = createObject(component, wordart).init() / cfoutput #wordart.getArt(CFWheels is the future and the

RE: emailing a cfchart?

2012-02-21 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J
Actually in a way you can. Generate the charts as files, then use cfmailparam to include the files. Create a variable that holds the fileinformation: cfset LocationAndFileName = getTempFile(getTempDirectory()) .png / Generate your chart as a variable and then save it: cfchart format=png

Re: Adding a border to text using CFImage

2012-02-21 Thread Leigh
  {font=LinLibertine, fontstyle=bolditalic, fontSize=30} Terry - Works perfectly with CF9. Any chance you are using CF8? I do not think implicit structures were supported in function calls until CF9. ~| Order the Adobe

Re: Arabic / Other languages POI Excel Writing

2012-02-21 Thread Leigh
Are you using POI directly or through some kind of wrapper (ie cfspreadsheet, poiUtility.cfc, etcetera..)?  Can you post your code? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: CFScript Book

2012-02-21 Thread Aaron Rouse
Agreed and someone could always write themselves some custom functions as wrappers to CF tags for prior versions CF or perhaps even what is missing in the current. To a point at least. I have been a CFScript Nazi for well over a decade now but fully recognize a place for it and a place for when

Re: CFScript Book

2012-02-21 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Robert Rhodes rrhode...@gmail.com wrote: I do wish Adobe would fill out CF so that one could write mostly in cfscript and avoid cf tags altogether, if desired. It would also help when I end up around small-minded coders who scoff at CF merely because of the

RE: Adding a border to text using CFImage

2012-02-21 Thread Terry Troxel
Yes, I thought I stated that somewhere in the original thread. I tried it in CF9 and it works, thank you a bunch leigh for putting up with my lack of knowledge. So this cfc will not work using CF8 or could you show me a way to call it in there? Terry

(ot) SEO

2012-02-21 Thread Dave Hatz
Question about SEO page hits. If we have a button on web page that displays search results, will the search results page count towards a Page Hit for SEO? We have a page for example http://www.mycars.com/trucks/toyota and on this page we have a button to display search results for dealers

Editing the http info before it goes to the browser.

2012-02-21 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J
Ok, I have a situation that I'm not sure how to handle. I'm working on an application where I am not allowed to do anything to the settings created at an upper layer of the app. In those upper layers there is a CFHEADER tag that is causing problems for my part of the application. I need to

RE: Adding a border to text using CFImage

2012-02-21 Thread Terry Troxel
LEIGH, This is crazy again. I uploaded the folder with the test.cfm and the cfc to a CF9 server and as I said it worked. I sent you my last reply stating that. Went back and reran the file and I get red x's where the demo images were but the plain text is there net to the red x. I deleted the

Re: Adding a border to text using CFImage

2012-02-21 Thread Leigh
No worries. It was a fun question .. and I learned something new myself. While perusing the cfc source I figured out how to create the outer stroke effect :) So this cfc will not work using CF8 I think it should work if you get rid of the CF9 specific syntax. But you would have to try it

Re: Adding a border to text using CFImage

2012-02-21 Thread Leigh
and the png images with superlong filenames are there. I then hand typed the url to the images and they displayed perfectly. The url in the generated image tags is probably pointing to the wrong location. You can change the defaults for the various paths in the init() function: ie  init(

Re: Editing the http info before it goes to the browser.

2012-02-21 Thread Dave Watts
I'm working on an application where I am not allowed to do anything to the settings created at an upper layer of the app. In those upper layers there is a CFHEADER tag that is causing problems for my part of the application. I need to remove it before it gets sent to the browser. Does

Re: emailing a cfchart?

2012-02-21 Thread Dave Watts
I haven't had a chance to check this, but does CF10 no longer provide the ability to generate static images for charts? It looks like everything is canvas or Flash-based, which is going to be problematic for emailing or using in a PDF--both of which I use. I don't know, honestly, but I

RE: Editing the http info before it goes to the browser.

2012-02-21 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J
Dave, How would I do that? I have to include the Application.cfm from the higher level (part of the requirements) and in that file is a cfheader (actually a lot of them) but I'm only concerned with the one. Steve -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com]

RE: Editing the http info before it goes to the browser. [SOLVED]!

2012-02-21 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J
Dave and everyone else, I actually solved this one! I couldn't view the headers, but with a little bump from Ben Nadel's blog http://www.bennadel.com/blog/758-ColdFusion-GetPageContext-Massive-Exploration.htm I was able to come up with this: (I'm using Pragma as an example but can be used

Re: CFScript Book

2012-02-21 Thread Aaron Rouse
I have worked with CF developers who scoff at any CFScript usage but for reasons most would not assume. They did it because they flat out did not understand the syntax and I am not referring to some abundant overuse of CFScript here. It can sometimes be a balancing act of coding how you want

Re: CFScript Book

2012-02-21 Thread Steve 'Cutter' Blades
You mean I should write a book on CFScript? Fantastic? Betascript Publishing hhhm... Anyone notice the tagline states: ColdFusion Markup Language, JavaScript, BlogCFC Now THAT is interesting... Steve 'Cutter' Blades Adobe Community Professional Adobe Certified Expert Advanced Macromedia

Re: (ot) SEO

2012-02-21 Thread Steve 'Cutter' Blades
The search engine must hit the page directly. So, if you want to index your listing of toyota trucks, the /trucks/toyota had better show your listing, not a button to get to the listing. A better option might be to go by make, then by bodystyle (/toyota/trucks or /toyota/suv). This allows you

Re: CFScript Book

2012-02-21 Thread Carl Von Stetten
Yeah, or how about the red seal on the cover that says High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!? LOL :-D On 2/21/2012 11:04 AM, Steve 'Cutter' Blades wrote: You mean I should write a book on CFScript? Fantastic? Betascript Publishing hhhm... Anyone notice the tagline states:

Re: Adding a border to text using CFImage

2012-02-21 Thread Terry Troxel
Leigh it went from better to worse. I said it worked when I put the 3 files in a folder off wwwroot called wordart in my laptop with CF 9. It works perfectly. I then uploaded it to my windows 2003 server with CF 9 into a sub folder called wordart in my website. It worked PERFECTLY ONCE. now if I

Re: Adding a border to text using CFImage

2012-02-21 Thread Leigh
Terry - Sorry, I have no clue about a cause. But the error sounds vaguely familiar.  Check the CF bug database. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

JQuery .ajax() call posts back to invoking page only on Production

2012-02-21 Thread Brent Shaub
Hello, thank you for any assistance with this puzzler. On my local Windows Vista development machine, I'm using CF 9. Here I have a JavaScript call JQuery's $.ajax() method to write some text to a database using a web service in a CFC. On my machine, it works as expected: writes the values,

Re: JQuery .ajax() call posts back to invoking page only on Production

2012-02-21 Thread Cameron Childress
For these sorts of this, I usually will turn on the Developer Tools panel in Chrome and watch the back/forth communication int he browser via the network tab. you can then click on any request's headers, response, etc. -Cameron On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Brent Shaub brent_sh...@yahoo.com

Re: CFScript Book

2012-02-21 Thread Billy Cravens
This publisher releases something like 10,000+ titles a year: they scrape Wikipedia content and sell it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDM_Publishing Billy Cravens bdcrav...@gmail.com On Feb 21, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Carl Von Stetten wrote: Yeah, or how about the red seal on the cover that

Re: CFScript Book

2012-02-21 Thread Scott Brady
My main issue with cfscript is that it's easy to confuse at first glance between that and javascript (for cases when you have JS mixed in with CF code, as the legacy app I work on at work has). So, it's not really cfscript's fault as much as a personal bugaboo. Scott On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at

Re: CFScript Book

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Michaels
cfscript to many defeats the who point of why they chose cf in the first place, because it was a html like easy to learn tag based language. When you go down the route of doing all your code in script, using OOP style coding, then surely you would just be better off writing directly in JAVA ?

Re: CFScript Book

2012-02-21 Thread James Holmes
Well, nobody's better off writing in Java, but C# would be an alternative. On Wednesday, February 22, 2012, Russ Michaels wrote: cfscript to many defeats the who point of why they chose cf in the first place, because it was a html like easy to learn tag based language. When you go down the

Re: CFScript Book

2012-02-21 Thread Aaron Rouse
The people I was referring to I am certain do not know how to write anything or much of anything in JavaScript. So it is not a matter of CFScript confusing them into thinking it is JavaScript. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Scott Brady dsbr...@gmail.com wrote: My main issue with cfscript

Re: emailing a cfchart?

2012-02-21 Thread Raymond Camden
CF10's charting support has both the old way and the new hot way, so you can still do server side charting. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: I haven't had a chance to check this, but does CF10 no longer provide the ability to generate static images for