RE: Alternatives to Verity

2003-10-12 Thread Jim Davis
Just so's you know: this "Lindex" (I posted about it a little while ago).  The CFDJ article was working off the fact that it was shipped with the DevNet Resource Kit 3. Note that you don't NEED the DRK to use it (the product itself is open-source) but the DRK does have some nice tools and docs a

RE: Alternatives to Verity

2003-10-12 Thread Jason Egan
Eric, There have been a few articles in recent CFDJ's that discuss a JAVA alternative to VERITY.  I don't recall the name of the program or the CFDJ issues off hand, but if you don't find the information on the CFDJ site (www.sys-con.com ) contact me off list and I'll try to dig up the informatio

Problems Viewing Hebrew on CFMX

2003-10-12 Thread Mickael
Hello All, I have a couple of applications that were working fine on CF5 displaying hebrew.  All of my pages used "charset=windows1255" and everything worked great.  I upgraded to CFMX in a shared hosting environment(crystal tech).  Now all the Hebrew comes out as garbage.  I also notice that the

RE: Storing XML

2003-10-12 Thread Matthew Walker
Wow I'd be really surprised if cfhttp was quicker than cffile. Another option though is cfinclude: template="myxml.xml"> -Original Message- From: Rich Z [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 13 October 2003 3:54 p.m. To: CF-Talk Subject: Storing XML Hi all: What's an efficient way t

Storing XML

2003-10-12 Thread Rich Z
Hi all: What's an efficient way to store/retrieve XML other than a database (let's assume I don't have access to one for now) ? Now, I've tried CFFILE/write to throw down and CFHTTP to pull back from the local web folders (seems to be quicker than CFFILE/read), but I've gotta say, even on 6.1

HomeSite Scripting: I'm making a database connection, but ...

2003-10-12 Thread Howard Owens
Thanks to Jon for his help on this, I've got a database connection going and actually run a good SQL query from within HomeSite with JScript.  But now I'm trying to dig down and extract the database schema, which is what I'm really after. I'm trying to rewrite this VBScript, which I _think_ does o

Re: CF Studio 5 question

2003-10-12 Thread Scott Brady
Owens, Howard wrote: > Actually, I can't get ctrl-M to match braces ... only CFML tags. > Well, sure, if I had actually READ the question correctly, I might have noticed it was about braces and not tags. Sorry about that. Scott Brady http://www.scottbrady.net

deleted cfide directory

2003-10-12 Thread Rob Curtis
Hello, I'm new to CF and I am running CFMX 6.1 on Redhat 8. I've inadvertatntly deleted the CFIDE directory. Is there anyway to recreate it without re-installing cold fusion? I don't have the install disks, at this time I'm still using the evaluation version. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Can't Load a Null

2003-10-12 Thread Paul Giesenhagen
I am getting this error when activating a component .. this is an extention of what I thought was a session issue, but now it is just an argument issue.  I for the life of me cannot figure this one out. Below is the error first and then the code:  (any help is appreciated)   can't load a null

RE: Creating Word Doc

2003-10-12 Thread Samuel Neff
You can specify what view to open Word in with a little XML within the element:   Print Make sure you have the MSO namespace declarations at the top of your document: xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> Best regards, Sam -- Blog:  htt

RE: Alternatives to Verity

2003-10-12 Thread Parker, Kevin
Us too - had a terrible time. We switched to Index Server figuring if it was bundled with IIS it must be at least stable. That wasn't the case either. We've had the catalog move off to another box so its not running in the same space as the site. That seems to have fixed it. ** Kevin Park

Re: Creating Word Doc

2003-10-12 Thread Marlon Moyer
I've run into problems with Office XP opening it up in a code view instead of document view allthough the same document opens up beautifully in Word97 or Work2000.  . marlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Philip Arnold wrote: > I've suggested this before, and it works on the later versions (Word 97 > onwa

Re: Date Picker

2003-10-12 Thread Lists2 - TriPointTek
jon hall wrote: > http://dynarch.com/mishoo/calendar.epl > > If you have any questions on how to make certain days unselectable let > me know...I had to do it for this calendar recently. It has a built in > way to enable it, but it's not obvious at first glance. > > -- That is a sweet calendar.

Re: Shareware - pay first or pay later

2003-10-12 Thread Adam Churvis
> I think that Adam Churvis had a go around with this concept and the end > result is that there is no honor system.  If you put code out there that is > downloadable expecting money later, you probably won't make enough to have a > nice dinner out at McDonalds... Yes, we lost $33,000 in real cash

RE: Alternatives to Verity

2003-10-12 Thread Jim Davis
The third DevNet Resource Kit (available from Macromedia) has a CFMX implementation of "Lindex" (short for "Lucene Index") - a text search engine that's been getting a lot of good word of mouth.  It's in pure Java so it also works on platforms that don't support Verity. There's information about

RE: Creating Word Doc

2003-10-12 Thread Jim Davis
Just a note - upon further reading it seems like RTF support will be in FOP "soon". Jim Davis -Original Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 12:50 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Creating Word Doc You may want to check this out: http://xml

RE: Shareware - pay first or pay later

2003-10-12 Thread Jim Davis
True - although the successes in this area all seem to be of the "try this, but buy for more" variety.  The original "Doom" is often credited with proving the success of the Shareware model: you got a nice, decent length game for free but paying your $30 got you three more episodes and the completi

RE: Secure way of identifying a particular device

2003-10-12 Thread Andy Ousterhout
Available publicly.   -Original Message-   From: brob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]   Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 1:26 AM   To: CF-Talk   Subject: Re: Secure way of identifying a particular device   You can do it by IP address, but every computer behind a router sharing the internet connect

Alternatives to Verity

2003-10-12 Thread Eric Hoffman
WE have been having terrible times with our Verity collections corrupting, being unable to update etc at our host and am looking for alternatives. It simply queries a database and a lot of fields, some quite lengthy...so not sure a simply SQL query is an option, but are there other solutions every

RE: Temporary Storage Options

2003-10-12 Thread Nick Baker
Jim, Excellent! Thanks for taking the time to address this in such a thorough and practical manner. "INI" just might be the little hidden jewel I was looking for. Since we need portability, your input suggests that we should develop multiple options. Selectable at installation. In this order 1

RE: Creating Word Doc

2003-10-12 Thread Samuel Neff
Here's a link to a Breezo of my presentation, along with a few thousand lines of sample code. http://www.rewindlife.com/archives/32.cfm I'm also giving a presentation at MAX about integrating CF with Office.  Not a tutorial on how to do it but rather a comparison of several different methodol

Re: Shareware - pay first or pay later

2003-10-12 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>or give the code out and hope for the best via honor system? Since this is the definition of "Shareware", and the way it was used by its inventor (The guy who created PKware and PKzip), I wouldn't call anything else "Shareware". Secondly, "Shareware" implies you provide an application, not the

Re: Possible to make a JavaScript function dynamic like this?

2003-10-12 Thread Claude Schneegans
You must pass the photo id in paramaetr to the _javascript_ function: and the function should open a template that will get and display the image ( I suppose in full size)
function newwindow(photoId)
{
window.open("fullImage.cfm?id=" + photoId,''jav','width=700, height=474, screenx=20

RE: Creating Word Doc

2003-10-12 Thread Jim Davis
You may want to check this out: http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html It's free, runs GREAT on CFMX and can easily produce PDF docs from XSL (you do need to learn a new "language - XSL-FO - but it's pretty simplistic and very HTML/CSS like).  It can produce other formats as well - but not DOCs

RE: Creating Word Doc

2003-10-12 Thread Philip Arnold
I've suggested this before, and it works on the later versions (Word 97 onwards) Just change the Content type to be Word, and then send it HTML - Word and Excel both interpret HTML into the "native" display format, which makes life a LOT easier Don't forget to send a reset before, and abort aft

RE: Creating Word Doc

2003-10-12 Thread Dwayne Cole
Thanks for the sugggestions. I may not need a word document. A RTF document will work fine.  Here's the use case  scenario: We have generic consulting agreement and I want to 'fill in the blanks' with data from the database.   I want the user of the system to be able to modify parts of the agree

Re: Setting Local for Application

2003-10-12 Thread Paul Hastings
> It returns Server Date/Time  Not the Locale Date/Time. then what are you after with setLocale and LSDateFormat? you're after the user's timezone? if so see this example: http://www.sustainablegis.com/tips/getClientTZ.cfm  there's also a timeZone CFC in the devnet gallery. [Todays Threads]

Possible to determine servers in a cluster from CF?

2003-10-12 Thread Stacy Young
Anyone know (via java somehow) to get a list of cluster members from a CF page? I'm making a flash session monitoring application that shows active users across all applications...but I'm trying to avoid having to enter each cluster member separately. Thanks! Stace AVIS IMPORTANT: --