RE: How do you get a random, random number?

2004-01-22 Thread Peter Tilbrook
THis is where UDF's can be useful, check out: http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=171 by Joshua Miller Peter Tilbrook ColdFusion Applications Developer ColdGen Internet Solutions Manager, ACT and Region ColdFusion Users Group - http://www.actcfug.com 4/73 Tharwa Road Queanbeyan, NSW, 2620 AUSTRALIA

Re: How do you get a random, random number?

2004-01-22 Thread brobborb
Since you're using a loop, use a condition, where, if the last number created was even, then create a random number that is 20 digits long.If it was odd, then create a random number that is anywhere from 10 to 15 digits long.If you want to go really crazy, you can ALSO prepend the last 3 digits of

RE: Database confusion.

2004-01-22 Thread Stuart Kidd
I put it all to the test and kazam!!It works! :-)It's going to take me a little while to get my head around what you did though.If I read up on joins do you think that will help? Thanks again, Stuart -Original Message- From: Matthew Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 January

Re: CF Start a process - don't wait for it to finish

2004-01-22 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Taco Fleur wrote: Yeah, that's true - but it would be a bit of a work-around to get cfexecute to call a cf page wouldn't it, at least I can't think of something easy straight away. Use wget: cfexecute name=wget arguments=-O news.html http://www.cnn.com// Jochem -- I don't get it immigrants

RE: How do you get a random, random number?

2004-01-22 Thread Paul Vernon
From what you've said, your code looks something like cfscript for (x = 0; x LTE 99; x = x + 1) { Randomize(Now()); Myrandnumber = RandRange(a, b); } /cfscript If this is the case. you should change it to cfscript Randomize(Now()); for (x = 0; x LTE 99; x = x + 1) { Myrandnumber =

Help with charset (I think)

2004-01-22 Thread Sean Daniels
I have a system built where a client can upload his product database in CSV format from Excel to update his MySQL database. Unfortunately, some of the columns in the source spreadsheet have text copied in from M$ Word or some other processor and frequently contains characters that are

Re: Help with charset (I think)

2004-01-22 Thread Massimo Foti
You may try the following: http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=319 http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=725 Massimo Foti http://www.massimocorner.com Co-Author of Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic: http://www.dwmagic.com/ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast

Re: Help with charset (I think)

2004-01-22 Thread Sean Daniels
On Jan 22, 2004, at 8:16 AM, Massimo Foti wrote: You may try the following: http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=319 http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=725 Thanks Massimo. I actually have a UDF I have written that does pretty much the same thing. In fact, it is a copyof Demoronize with some extra

Re: Problems with Text in Access

2004-01-22 Thread Deanna Schneider
Should there be some sort of argument in the cfif ?Like =0? There doesn't need to be, and it's better not to define it. It amounts to a boolean. If there is any length to the dollarfield, it will run the #dollarformat(yourdollarfield)#. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast

cfstat - generate log?

2004-01-22 Thread Katz, Dov B (IT)
Does anyone have a script which cfstat's every 3-5 minutes into a log, and provides log parsing ? I'm looking for a web-based monitoring tool for cfstat data. Is there a major performance cost in repeatedly using cfstat, other than the sychronization (locking) of various internal

Re: Problems with Text in Access

2004-01-22 Thread Deanna Schneider
You could also do this #dollarformat(val(yourdollarfield))#. The val() function will return a zero(0) for null values. Silly me. Better option. Of course, the best option would probably be to do it in the query. But, I'm not sure Access has something like nvl(). -d [Todays Threads] [This

Re: CF Start a process - don't wait for it to finish

2004-01-22 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 22 Jan 2004 04:06 am, Taco Fleur wrote: What's the best way to start/call a process in CF and not wait for it to finish? Put a '' on the end, if your on Linux/Unix. -- Tom Chiverton Advanced ColdFusion Programmer Tel: +44(0)1749 834997 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BlueFinger Limited

Re: MySQL query

2004-01-22 Thread Yves Arsenault
Thanks to all those who answered Even after changing the the day() to dayofmonth(), the queries would still not pull out the request information... After a little reflection, I noticed that something had changed this DB was originally an Access DB, and it was converted to MySQL, in the

Re: Random Could not connect to JRun Server error

2004-01-22 Thread Darron J. Schall
Just to follow-up on this issue: We've believe we've narrowed down our instability problems to using the following custom tag: cfx_PaymentNet http://www.circa3k.com/CustomTag.cfm?ID=43 This tag is old (3-4 years?), and never caused issues with CF5, or CFMX.. but it doesn't seem to play nice

Re: cfstat - generate log?

2004-01-22 Thread Josh
What version of CF?What server OS are you running? If you are running linux, you could easily write a cron job to spit out the cfstat into file like so: cfstat 360 cfstat.log set it to and then just import the file using cffile and display it any way you wish... I haven't seen any

RE: cfstat - generate log?

2004-01-22 Thread Katz, Dov B (IT)
I use w2k,6.1 linux would be easy, true. -Dov _ From: Josh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 10:39 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: cfstat - generate log? What version of CF?What server OS are you running? If you are running linux, you could easily write a

RE: cfstat - generate log?

2004-01-22 Thread Steven Erat
Try using getMetricData() from your code.This provides the same data that cfstat does. Parse it, format it, output it to a file.Run the code as a scheduled task at the desired interval. Usage is the same in CFMX as it is in CF5/4.5.

RE: cfstat - generate log?

2004-01-22 Thread Tim Blair
Try using getMetricData() from your code.This provides the same data that cfstat does. Except doing it like that will mean the requests running will always be one out because it counts the script that you're running getMetricData() in. Tim.

ot: sql and NAS

2004-01-22 Thread Tony Weeg
hi there. sorry for the ot post, but I don't know where else to turn (and not lookin for suggestions right now :)) ok, I have a sql server and a NAS (both dell, really fast and nice) I have turned the trace flag on: dbcc traceon (1807) I have verified connectivity between the two machines.

RE: cfstat - generate log?

2004-01-22 Thread Steven Erat
That's true.However, because it's a known value that remains constant with each execution, it can be easily accounted for when calculating summarized data.There will one request for the template having getMetricData( ).In fact, you could simply do (ReqsRunning = ReqsRunning -1) before logging the

RE: cfstat - generate log?

2004-01-22 Thread Tim Blair
In fact, you could simply do (ReqsRunning = ReqsRunning -1) before logging the data to accommodate for the known thread. Yup, that's right.I was just pointing it out...:) Tim. --- Try the ColdFusion Coding Contest!Current contest: Maze

Fusebox site

2004-01-22 Thread Marlon Moyer
Fusebox.org seems to be down again. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

HELP!!! I have a SQL Call That I cannot Make work...

2004-01-22 Thread Michael Grove
I have been working on this for days and can not figure it out. I think it would be somthing easy, but just cant get it. I have an auction site that I am working on. I have two tables, Auction_Item table and Auction_Bid table. The item table houses the product id, auction close date, the reserve

Re: CFMX 'bug'? Easy to crash CFMAIL.

2004-01-22 Thread Christian Cantrell
On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 06:28PM, Matt Robertson wrote: But I hope someone smacked themselves on the head and at the very, *very* least said Oops.  Lets try not do *that* again!  when the realization hit that this change was undocumented and unannounced (assuming I am not

RE: sql and NAS (FIXED)

2004-01-22 Thread Tony Weeg
nevermind, it was a permissions issue (We think...we found 1 disparity between the two, and that's how the services starts up.1 uses system account, 1 uses network admin account) anyway, thanks. tony -Original Message- From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January

some errors...

2004-01-22 Thread Daniel Farmer
I'm using a C.M. system. Basically it creates the HTML ( from a web editor ) and that gets placed in the DB. I'm having a problem inserting code however when single quotes are present in the html. I tried preservesinglequotes around my SQL insert. But still I get an error... ERROR ODBC Error

Re: HELP!!! I have a SQL Call That I cannot Make work...

2004-01-22 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 22 Jan 2004 16:12 pm, Michael Grove wrote: I can do this. The trickey part is, I dont want to see all of the bids exceeding the reserve. Only the highest bid. max(ab.bid_ammount) in your select clause ? -- Tom Chiverton Advanced ColdFusion Programmer Tel: +44(0)1749 834997 email:

RE: HELP!!! I have a SQL Call That I cannot Make work...

2004-01-22 Thread MILAN MUSHRAN
If it's SQL server, then use- SELECT TOP 1 From: Michael Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HELP!!! I have a SQL Call That I cannot Make work... Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:12:24 -0400 I have been working on this for days and can not figure

Re: CF Start a process - don't wait for it to finish

2004-01-22 Thread Christian Cantrell
On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 11:06PM, Taco Fleur wrote: What's the best way to start/call a process in CF and not wait for it to finish? I tried once to write a CFTHREAD tag (that spawned a new Java thread in which some task would be performed), but it managed to eluded me. Sounds

Help me turn trusted cache on/off with a cf script

2004-01-22 Thread Jon Block
In CF5, I had a script to go into the registry and adjust the setting for trusted cache. It looks like in CFMX, I have to change the value in C:\CFusionMX\lib\neo-runtime.xml for trusted cache. Is that all there is to it? Is there some function I have to call to instruct the server to reparse the

Re: some errors...

2004-01-22 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Use cfqueryparam ... just make sure you don't have any functions in the tag... good: cfset myvalue = trim(myvalue) cfqueryparam value=#myvalue# bad: cfqueryparam value=#trim(myvalue)# hth I'm using a C.M. system. Basically it creates the HTML ( from a web editor ) and that gets placed in the

Re: CF Start a process - don't wait for it to finish

2004-01-22 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 22 Jan 2004 17:24 pm, Christian Cantrell wrote: I tried once to write a CFTHREAD tag (that spawned a new Java thread in which some task would be performed), but it managed to eluded me. I think there is enough confusion over locking without introducing multi-threaded requests, as

Re: CF Start a process - don't wait for it to finish

2004-01-22 Thread Joe Eugene
You could use cfExecute and execute a Java Program (which would by itself) and not take up any CF Resources. e.g cmd.exe java MyBatchProgram Joe - Original Message - From: Christian Cantrell To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:24 PM Subject: Re: CF Start a process - don't

Re: some errors...

2004-01-22 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Daniel Farmer said: I'm having a problem inserting code however when single quotes are present in the html. I tried preservesinglequotes around my SQL insert. But still I get an error... Try cfqueryparam. ERROR ODBC Error Code = 37000 (Syntax error or access violation) [Microsoft][ODBC

Re: HELP!!! I have a SQL Call That I cannot Make work...

2004-01-22 Thread kpeterson
SELECT the MAX(bid_amount),product_id columns from auction_bids as a table then do a self join to with bid_amount,product_id and return member_ID then join to the other tables. You will probably want to do a join to the auction_bids as well to try to restrict the number of rows you will use.

OT: stored procedures meta data

2004-01-22 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
I'm wondering if anyone on the list knows if there's a way to get information about the parameters for a stored procedure (name, datatype and most importantly order) in a query from either Oracle or SQL Server (or both). s. isaac dealey 214-823-9345 team macromedia

hash() and salt?

2004-01-22 Thread Burns, John
I read some comments the other day on the list about using hash() to store passwords in a database and someone sent a link to a microsoft document explaining the security benefits to storing passwords that way. In the article, it talked about using a salt parameter that the hash uses to generate a

Re: HELP!!! I have a SQL Call That I cannot Make work...

2004-01-22 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Michael Grove said: I have an auction site that I am working on. I have two tables, Auction_Item table and Auction_Bid table. The item table houses the product id, auction close date, the reserve price and the seller id. The bid table houses the product_id, bid amount and bidder id. What

Re: hash() and salt?

2004-01-22 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Burns, John said: I read some comments the other day on the list about using hash() to store passwords in a database and someone sent a link to a microsoft document explaining the security benefits to storing passwords that way. In the article, it talked about using a salt parameter that the

Re: HELP!!! I have a SQL Call That I cannot Make work...

2004-01-22 Thread kpeterson
I forgot the add the join for AI. WHERE ab.Member_ID = ml.member_ID AND ai.product_ID = ab.Product_ID Kore Peterson Database Development Specialist SEH - Minneapolis 612.758.6739 [EMAIL PROTECTED] nc.comTo:CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: 01/22/2004Subject:Re: HELP!!! I have a SQL Call That I

Re: OT: stored procedures meta data

2004-01-22 Thread Rob Rohan
On sql server2k there is a stored procedure sp_procedure_params_rowset that when passed a procedure name will show all the parameters for the procedure. There is probably something similar on older version, and other types of databases. Look in the master database stored procedures (on m$sql -

Re: CF Start a process - don't wait for it to finish

2004-01-22 Thread Darron J. Schall
If only it were as simple as: !--- MyThread.cfc --- cfcomponent extends=java.lang.Thread cffunction name=run access=public returntype=any !--- do stuff that you don't need to wait for here, like launching an .exe --- /cffunction /cfcomponent !--- .cfm page --- cfscript mt =

Re: some errors...

2004-01-22 Thread Daniel Farmer
Here's my code... I've never used this tag before... not sure exactly how it's used... I'm using some custom tags with this setup... so basically the html code is being sent to this query template via the attributes.sql. Am I using the tag correctly? !--- OLD CODE cfquery

RE: CF Start a process - don't wait for it to finish

2004-01-22 Thread Andre Turrettini
make it an attribute of a cfc?Give it its own scope and perhaps an optional callback function.Maybe cfevent and cfcallback.That would be nice if used properly.Just because its complex doesnt mean it should be avoided. DRE -Original Message- From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: some errors...

2004-01-22 Thread Bryan F. Hogan
Use cfqueryparam ... just make sure you don't have any functions in the tag... This bug has been squashed. :-) http://www.cfm-applications.com/blogman/archives/entries/19E7EC27-3048-4 181-CD110840B83B860B.shtml [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User

RE: OT: stored procedures meta data

2004-01-22 Thread MILAN MUSHRAN
For sql server - select * from information_schema.routines might be helpful. From: S. Isaac Dealey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: stored procedures meta data Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:50:42 -0600 I'm wondering if anyone on the list knows

Re: some errors...

2004-01-22 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Daniel Farmer said: Here's my code... I've never used this tag before... not sure exactly how it's used... I'm using some custom tags with this setup... so basically the html code is being sent tothis query template via the attributes.sql. Am I using the tag correctly? cfquery

Re: some errors...

2004-01-22 Thread Daniel Farmer
this is a variable. - Original Message - From: Jochem van Dieten To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 1:24 PM Subject: Re: some errors... Daniel Farmer said: Here's my code... I've never used this tag before... not sure exactly how it's used... I'm using some custom tags with

RE: some errors...

2004-01-22 Thread Dave Watts
Here's my code... I've never used this tag before... not sure exactly how it's used... I'm using some custom tags with this setup... so basically the html code is being sent tothis query template via the attributes.sql. Am I using the tag correctly? cfquery

Re:OT server clustering

2004-01-22 Thread Doug White
Does anyone have experience with server clustering? I will describe the client's wishes. In order to provide as much uptime as possible with fail-over capability. A Web server with a multiple online accounting system.It will have user registration, and personal file/photo upload and storage

Re: some errors...

2004-01-22 Thread Bryan Stevenson
cfquery SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE ID = cvfqueryparam value=#MyIDVar# cfsqltype=cf_sql_integer /cfquery Cheers ;-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cfexecute winzip32

2004-01-22 Thread David Brown
I am trying to first get the message number of the email with the subject of SECURITYsense.Then getall on that message number to get the attachments.Then find the attachment with HTML in the name.After that create a .bat file to unzip that attachment to a new folder. I don't get any errors when I

Re: some errors...

2004-01-22 Thread Daniel Farmer
How could I integrate cfqueryparam in the following statement? cfset thesql=update data set data = '', data_f = '#form.EditorDefault2#' where nav_id = #form.nav_id# cfmodule template = ../dbaccess_code/dbaccess.cfm sql=#thesql# qname=getit - Original Message - From: Bryan Stevenson

RE: OT server clustering

2004-01-22 Thread Tom Kitta
You are talking about the network load balancing clustering not the virtual PC clustering which you can do with win2003 Enterprise. If you already have 2pcs and 2 copies of enterprise I suggest you go for the virtual clustering, i.e. install clustering services and set up a cluster with two nodes

Re: Random Could not connect to JRun Server error

2004-01-22 Thread Sean Daniels
On Jan 22, 2004, at 10:04 AM, Darron J. Schall wrote: Just to follow-up on this issue: We've believe we've narrowed down our instability problems to using the following custom tag: cfx_PaymentNet http://www.circa3k.com/CustomTag.cfm?ID=43 This tag is old (3-4 years?), and never caused

Re:OT server clustering

2004-01-22 Thread Jeremy Brodie
Doug, I've just finished up with a client needing failover and load balancing for their Cold Fusion instalation. There are a number of options available to you depending on the number of servers and your set up. Must haves For any load balancing or failover option to work, you will need some

Re: Random Could not connect to JRun Server error

2004-01-22 Thread Darron J. Schall
Sean, Thank you very much for the response.Hopefully by switching custom tags I can start sleeping straight through the night again without interruption.:-) -d - Original Message - From: Sean Daniels To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:04 PM Subject: Re: Random Could not

Answering my own question... RE: Help me turn trusted cache on/off with a cf script

2004-01-22 Thread Jon Block
Alrighty, I'm going to answer my own question here... Hi Jon, You don't need to go into those xml files... in fact.. don't touch them. Take a look at this code. It creates an instance of a component that handles all of the server settings for you. CFOBJECT action = ""> type = JAVA class =

Looking to figure out URL level deepness

2004-01-22 Thread Ketan Patel
Hi All, I am trying figure out deepness of the URL eg: cfset theurl=www.wyndham.com/hotels/BWIIH/main.wnt cfset deepnessCount = ListLen(trim(theurl), /) returns me 4 actually it should return me 3 due to ffolder levels cfset theurl=news.com.com/2100-7344-5139640.html?tag=nl cfset deepnessCount

Re: some errors...

2004-01-22 Thread Bryan Stevenson
egad...that's nasty.You may be able to pull it off but I'd think it would require too much use of Evaluate(). May I ask what this tag does?It looks like mabye you've created a generic custom tag that will run any query you pass it??If so, I'd suggest you simply set a global datasource variable

Maintain database connections

2004-01-22 Thread Stan Winchester
I’m helping to setup a new live CF5 Pro server and I’ve heard that “Maintain database connections” should be unchecked in a shared environment. Does anyone know what best practice is on this? Thank you, Aftershock Web Design, Inc. by: Stan Winchester President/Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

(OT) Best streaming video type

2004-01-22 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I'm looking at a CF app to upload a video file to a server and then allow people to view it. I know some video file types automatically stream and others don't. What is the best type for an app like this? Thanks [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User

Re: some errors...

2004-01-22 Thread Matt Robertson
Daniel Farmer wrote: How could I integrate cfqueryparam in the following statement? You'd have to redesign your custom tag.If I call out to any sort of SQL handler, for lack of a better term, I include the cfsqltypes as a delimited list, so a routine would be called something like cfmodule

OT: FYI -- CFMX6.1 Standard on eBay (NIB)

2004-01-22 Thread jtnews
currently only $750 CFMX 6.1 Standard -- full version not an upgrade, not edu, not NFR, etc. New in box -- still in shrink-wrap ends in 3 hours! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3655192400 This message was

Re: (OT) Best streaming video type

2004-01-22 Thread brobborb
hmmm, MPG - Original Message - From: Michael Dinowitz To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 1:50 PM Subject: (OT) Best streaming video type I'm looking at a CF app to upload a video file to a server and then allow people to view it. I know some video file types automatically

RE: Looking to figure out URL level deepness

2004-01-22 Thread Burns, John
Well, instead of doing the whole url, you know you don't care about the domain name, so just do it on cgi.script_name and that will just give you the folders and the file name and url parameters.If someone goes to a site like www.blah.com/foo/index.cfm the script_name variable will contain

Re: Looking to figure out URL level deepness

2004-01-22 Thread Nick Han
cfset theurl=news.com.com/2100-7344-5139640.html?tag=nl cfset deepnessCount = ListLen(trim(theurl), /) there's a flaw in this method to count the 'deepness' of the url.you can have a url like this and it will throw your deepness true count off, cfset

OT: cf Eclipse plugin

2004-01-22 Thread Rob Rohan
I saw that the MM guys were using Eclipse for their new ?XML flash language thingy. Does anyone know of a normal Cold Fusion Eclipse plug-in (free or not)? -- Vale, Rob Luxuria immodica insaniam creat. Sanam formam viatae conservate! http://www.rohanclan.com http://treebeard.sourceforge.net

OT: printing from web

2004-01-22 Thread Jones, Becky
this is sort of off topic but i hope u can help. does anyone know how to programmatically remove the header and footer from a web page when you print? thanks for your help bec. * This e-mail, including any attachments, is intended for the receipt

Append variables to the server scope?

2004-01-22 Thread Burns, John
Is there a way to append variables to the server scope of a cf server? for isntance, you're running clustered servers and want to be able to distinguish which server you're on by server.serverName and it return the name of the server you're on.cfregistry is disabled so you can't pull it from the

RE: printing from web

2004-01-22 Thread Tangorre, Michael
Sure... Read up on it here.. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html HTH, Mike -Original Message- From: Jones, Becky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: printing from web this is

RE: Re: (OT) Best streaming video type

2004-01-22 Thread Mike Brunt
What about FLV Michael. Kind Regards - Mike Brunt Original Message --- hmmm, MPG - Original Message - From: Michael Dinowitz To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 1:50 PM Subject: (OT) Best streaming video type I'm looking at a CF app to upload a video

RE: printing from web

2004-01-22 Thread Marlon Moyer
That is all set on the client side, and luckily the browsers prevent web servers having access to settings like this on the client machines.You might want to check out other options that generate pdf files from html on the server and then serve those to the client. -- marlon And Bobby you are

RE: printing from web

2004-01-22 Thread Burns, John
You mean the HTML header and footer? Like navigation and stuff or do you mean the part where IE prints out the URL that you are printing and the page number and stuff?I believe all of that has to be turned off at the client.I've fought this problem before and without using some kind of

Re: Re: (OT) Best streaming video type

2004-01-22 Thread brobborb
or ASF? :-D or WMV? - Original Message - From: Mike Brunt To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:35 PM Subject: RE: Re: (OT) Best streaming video type What about FLV Michael. Kind Regards - Mike Brunt Original Message --- hmmm, MPG - Original

RE: Re: (OT) Best streaming video type

2004-01-22 Thread Burns, John
Or real media?And you can generate .ram files automatically to make the files stream.I think the question really falls to what client app most of your audience is going to have installed on their machines. John -Original Message- From: brobborb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

RE: Looking to figure out URL level deepness

2004-01-22 Thread Ketan Patel
Hi John, I cannot use cgi.script_name because in my case I have to pull the info from the database where I have stored URL's. Ketan Patel -Original Message- From: Burns, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:52 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Looking to figure out

Re: FYI -- CFMX6.1 Standard on eBay (NIB)

2004-01-22 Thread Darron J. Schall
Careful, it might actually be a pirated version.See message from another mailing list: -- Be weary of Ebay. I got stung with 2 boxes of Flash5 a couple years ago and 3 boxes of Fireworks/Dreamweaver 4.0 Studio... shrink-wrapped, non-academic, and otherwise complete

Re: (OT) Best streaming video type

2004-01-22 Thread Matt Robertson
I don't know about the best, but WMV (windows video) is easy to use and its file sizes are nice and compact.I have a client that does online customer service via Logitech webcams and they use this.Doesn't seem to be a problem for the video to just click-and-run ... on a Windows box, at

RE: printing from web

2004-01-22 Thread Rob Rohan
If you want to require java you can do it with a java applet rather easily - but again that requires java and I think it might be overkill for what you want. If you hit your wits end though, java printing works rather well. On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 11:59, Burns, John wrote: You mean the HTML

Re: OT: printing from web

2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
You can use CSS to define a different style sheet for printing. Or you can create a printer friendly template that you can use as well. - Original Message - From: Jones, Becky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004 1:00 pm Subject: OT: printing from web this is sort of off

Re: CF Start a process - don't wait for it to finish

2004-01-22 Thread Christian Cantrell
On Thursday, January 22, 2004, at 01:22PM, Andre Turrettini wrote: make it an attribute of a cfc?  Give it its own scope and perhaps an optional callback function.  Maybe cfevent and cfcallback.  That would be nice if used properly.  Just because its complex doesnt mean it should be

RE: (OT) Best streaming video type

2004-01-22 Thread Tony Weeg
ram would be the easiest I think. create a .rm file that has a url pointer to an ram file, and BAM it streams using real audio player (and that's got to be one of the most prevalent) tw -Original Message- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004

Checking HD/folder space

2004-01-22 Thread Troy Montour
Hello, working on a file management piece for our intranet I have everything done but one piece to report how much hd/folder space is left. anything out there that can do this for CF? also if this is ran on a shared enviroment will it report what my space is availible or the whole HD? Thank you

Re: (OT) Best streaming video type

2004-01-22 Thread brobborb
Dude, Matt, wrestler lookin dude :D - Original Message - From: Matt Robertson To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:14 PM Subject: Re: (OT) Best streaming video type I don't know about the best, but WMV (windows video) is easy to use and its file sizes are nice and compact.I

Re: (OT) Best streaming video type

2004-01-22 Thread ksuh
Windows Media Encoder is free, but you have to do a lot of very annoying checking to make sure you render the correct browser to the client for the version of windows media you encoded with.OTOH, you can protect your media files somewhat by using ASX files to stream your videos.And you can be

RE: (OT) Best streaming video type

2004-01-22 Thread Ian Skinner
I don't know if this was supposed to be an example of a WMV file or a STREAMING WMV file.But if the latter, it did not stream to me, I had to download the entire file before it started playing.Of course if the former, then it did just what it was supposed to do, download the entire file then start

RE: Append variables to the server scope?

2004-01-22 Thread Taco Fleur
Could it be this simple? cfset server.serverName = freddy I'm not sure but I believe you think it's difficult to write to the server scope, correct? Or am just not understanding what your looking for? I guess you throw me of by saying append don't you just mean set in the server scope? The

RE: (OT) Best streaming video type

2004-01-22 Thread Matt Robertson
Personally I don't have the Real player, and always uninstall it when it worms its way back on cuz the basic model always pesters me for an upgrade.Thats just me. WMV is native to Windows, isn't it?As in installed by default?I'm reasonably sure I never have had to add anything to a win box to

Re: Checking HD/folder space

2004-01-22 Thread Jeff Garza
If you are on Windows you can use the following script to get the amount of free space on your hard drives... CFSCRIPT fs = CreateObject(COM, Scripting.FileSystemObject); Cdrive = fs.GetDrive(c:); Cavail = Cdrive.AvailableSpace; Ddrive = fs.GetDrive(d:); Davail = Ddrive.AvailableSpace; /CFSCRIPT

RE: Looking to figure out URL level deepness

2004-01-22 Thread Burns, John
Ketan, I don't think there's any easy / sure-fire way to do it then.You've got so many variables to take into consideration.Do any have http:// in them, do any have a / in the url variables?You might be able to do some complex stuff with finding the first / after .com (maybe make an array of

RE: (OT) Best streaming video type

2004-01-22 Thread Matt Robertson
Ian Skinner wrote: I don't know if this was supposed to be an example of a WMV file or a STREAMING WMV file. WHOOPS... sorry.Not reading carefully.No the example is not streaming live or anything like that.Just a saved file. -- --- Matt Robertson,[EMAIL

RE: Looking to figure out URL level deepness

2004-01-22 Thread Taco Fleur
So you store your url in the database, does that mean you always will know the url is stored in the following format? domain / directory / page If so, use a regex to remove the page and everything after it, i.e. /.*\.cfm.* something like that I believe, but the regex gods will surely help

Re: OT: cf Eclipse plugin

2004-01-22 Thread Rob Rohan
I am going to assume by the silence (and the stuff I found on google) no one wants to / can't say. (I didn't know MM helped make Eclipse - good job) On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 12:00, Rob Rohan wrote: I saw that the MM guys were using Eclipse for their new ?XML flash language thingy. Does anyone

RE: printing from web

2004-01-22 Thread Jones, Becky
Yea i mean removing the url at the bottom and the page number.from searching the web, there doesnt seem to be a way to do it. -Original Message- From: Burns, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: printing from web You mean the

RE: Checking HD/folder space

2004-01-22 Thread Taco Fleur
How much folder space is left? I guess first you need to know how much folder space you are allowed to have, and then how much you really have. The Windows Scripting Host can do this for you with the File System Object just taken some pieces out of my own code server.objFSO =

RE: Append variables to the server scope?

2004-01-22 Thread Burns, John
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of it permanently being written on that server.Like the CF Serial # is and all the other stuff that's in the server scope.I don't want to have to make a call to a script that sets that every time.I mean set it once and then it stays. How does MM set all of

RE: (OT) Best streaming video type

2004-01-22 Thread Burns, John
Yeah, and there's a windows media player version for mac users as well (not that most mac users would download anything microsoft to their mac).It all depends on the audience. John -Original Message- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:31

RE: RE: (OT) Best streaming video type

2004-01-22 Thread Mike Brunt
I really think Flash Video is worth a good look.The Flash Player is more widely distributed than any of the other plug-ins out there. Kind Regards - Mike Brunt Original Message --- Ian Skinner wrote: I don't know if this was supposed to be an example of a WMV file or a

Re: (OT) Best streaming video type

2004-01-22 Thread Kevin Graeme
What kind of streaming server are you using? Just playing video off of an http server doesn't make it a stream. -Kevin - Original Message - From: Michael Dinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 1:50 PM Subject: (OT) Best streaming video

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