RE: ASP.Net book for CF programmer

2006-04-29 Thread Snake
Indeed, but you should at least make a little effort to find the answer before posting to a list, it just makes sense. -Original Message- From: Denny Valliant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 April 2006 03:18 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: ASP.Net book for CF programmer On 4/28/06, Russ

RE: ASP.Net book for CF programmer

2006-04-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
you should at least make a little effort to find the answer before posting to a list I don't think so...the best information comes from those most experienced in the topic...in this case a CF programmer trying to get some info on an ASP.Net book. Rather than spending hours wandering the

Re: ASP.Net book for CF programmer

2006-04-29 Thread Aaron Rouse
The original poster was asking for a good book that someone could recommend. Since none probably exists specifically for a CF developer going to ASP I'd imagine this list would be a great place to ask hey I need to learn ASP .NET and only know CFM, what resources(preferably books) have people

RE: ASP.Net book for CF programmer

2006-04-29 Thread Snake
Perhaps your just not very good at using search engines Rick, some people aren't, thus why you find resorting to lists as soon as you get stuck as the best method. A bit of practice at optimising your search criteria may show you how quick it can be. Snake -Original Message- From: Rick

RE: ASP.Net book for CF programmer

2006-04-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
Sounds perfect...looks like we're in agreement... :o) Now, how about that book? ;o) No...on a serious note...I'm *still* using CF 4.5.2 and haven't had a compelling reason to upgrade, but was getting ready to perhaps to take that plunge at some point in the near future...then I read that since

Re: ASP.Net book for CF programmer

2006-04-29 Thread Aaron Rouse
The only book I have for ASP .NET is the free one I got from CF United and it seems ok to learn with. The online sources mentioned in this thread looked like some good ones for a CF person to reference. A couple of the books mentioned looked like they might be well worth the effort of finding

RE: ASP.Net book for CF programmer

2006-04-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
Perhaps...but usually I'm looking for a very specific type of information and I find a lot of information, but none that gets to the point quickly... like a reference for a book that deals with a topic from a specific perspective, such as How to understand ASP.net programming if you're experienced

RE: ASP.Net book for CF programmer

2006-04-29 Thread Snake
BTW, just to make it clear, this is actually nothing against the original poster, the topic has just detoured a bit :-) -Original Message- From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 April 2006 14:10 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: ASP.Net book for CF programmer The original poster

Re: CF Administrator Files Periodically Corrupted

2006-04-29 Thread Al Musella, DPM
Is it possible that you are mixing files from different versions of cf? At 10:19 PM 4/28/2006, you wrote: On 4/28/06, brian wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the help. Sorry I forgot to mention if the files differ. It seems that they do: -rw-r--r--1 01157894 mkpasswd

COM object return

2006-04-29 Thread Philip K. Dunn
I am trying to use a COM object (Shotgraph) function which sets a parameter variable within the object. The question is: can CF5 determine the return value of the function variable. Example: cfSet g=CreateObject(COM,shotgraph.image) cfset x=g.gettextdimensions(This is string to measure,w,h) w

RE: COM object return

2006-04-29 Thread Dave Watts
I am trying to use a COM object (Shotgraph) function which sets a parameter variable within the object. The question is: can CF5 determine the return value of the function variable. Example: cfSet g=CreateObject(COM,shotgraph.image) cfset x=g.gettextdimensions(This is string to

RE: Question about relative and root links

2006-04-29 Thread Dave Watts
An absolute file system path? Or absolute path as in the full URL, including protocol? Damn it, now I'm confused. I get the point though, I think, if you mean a site where you have to replace /something with /somethingelse all over the place. No, I simply meant that if you copy a web

Re: COM object return

2006-04-29 Thread Philip Dunn
If w and h are public properties of the object, you should be able to reference them using the object name as a prefix (ex: g.w, g.h). Reference fails with: Failed attempting to find W property/method on the object COM error 0x80020006. Unknown name. cfSet g=CreateObject(COM,shotgraph.image)

RE: COM object return

2006-04-29 Thread Adrian Lynch
Maybe I'm looking at the code wrong, but are your own vars. You know what they are because you set them: cfset w=0 cfset h=0 What am I missing? -Original Message- From: Philip Dunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 April 2006 19:17 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: COM object return If w and

RE: COM object return

2006-04-29 Thread Dave Watts
Reference fails with: Failed attempting to find W property/method on the object COM error 0x80020006. Unknown name. cfSet g=CreateObject(COM,shotgraph.image) ***other init stuff here cfset w=0cfset h=0 cfset x=g.gettextdimensions(this is the string,w,h) cfoutputw = #g.w#/cfoutput

Re: COM object return

2006-04-29 Thread Philip K. Dunn
| I suspect you will not be able to use this COM object directly from CF, | unless it has alternative properties and methods that you can directly | address from within CF. Thanks Dave. All the outbound calls succeed using CF calls to this particular COM obj - it is a problem reading the

Re: ASP.Net book for CF programmer

2006-04-29 Thread Denny Valliant
Hmmm... is everything really free in aspland? I thought that idea ran counter to microsoft's MO. ;-) You're not talking about using mono or something right? If I was gonna jump ship, I'd look a OpenLaszlo. I was checking it out, as I've been contemplating flex vs. dhtml. It is freaking

Connecting to CF locally w/o internet connection

2006-04-29 Thread Dave Roth
We just had a software designer develop a CF application. For sales calls I would like to run this without an internet connection at all. Right now when I connect to the localhost:8500 it insists on connecting to the internet. I do not see a reason why and would like to run completely remotely.

Printing from CF

2006-04-29 Thread Jenny Gavin-Wear
Hi all, I've putting together an application for a courier and they need to have address labels printed for each consignment. I'm running CFMX 6.1, and they have given me a specialised label printer to play with. Can anyone give me some advice on printing from CF please? Thanks, Jenny --

Re: Is running CF on J2EE server more stable?

2006-04-29 Thread Douglas Knudsen
http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/productinfo/systemreqs/ Tomcat is not supported. AFAIK, CF needs a full J2EE app server, Tomcat is not, Tomcat is a servlet container. DK On 4/28/06, Denny Valliant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bingo! That's pretty much what I meant. On 4/28/06,

Re: Connecting to CF locally w/o internet connection

2006-04-29 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I assume what your seeing is a firewall alert saying CF wants to connect? If so, just let it connect even if there is no connection to the net. It may be a number of things but allowing it doesn't hurt at all. I have CF on my laptop and have allowed this and no prob. Things it can be are: CF

Where does the sessionID come from?

2006-04-29 Thread Mike Kear
Where does the session ID come from? I've noticed lately as I'm working on my Application.cfc, that when I dump session and application variables, I can have a new application start, but the sessionID is the same. I thought the sessionid was always a unique value, and when the application

RE: Where does the sessionID come from?

2006-04-29 Thread Andrew Stevens
My understanding is that application and session are separate. Ie: you can set a 5 minute application timeout and a 30 minute session timeout. I think what you're seeing is the correct behavior. Side note: you can restart Jrun/CF and the sessions will be recovered (depending on you're setup). I

Re: CF, OO, Thread Safety

2006-04-29 Thread Dave Ross
Ouch, no!!! where/who told you to lock like that? You are making your application single-threaded by doing that! You need to var-scope the name of your query. This will make your DAO's read thread-safe without syncronizing the calls (making it single threaded). The ironic thing is that the

RE: Where does the sessionID come from?

2006-04-29 Thread Dave Watts
Where does the session ID come from? I've noticed lately as I'm working on my Application.cfc, that when I dump session and application variables, I can have a new application start, but the sessionID is the same. I thought the sessionid was always a unique value, and when the

RE: Connecting to CF locally w/o internet connection

2006-04-29 Thread Dave Watts
We just had a software designer develop a CF application. For sales calls I would like to run this without an internet connection at all. Right now when I connect to the localhost:8500 it insists on connecting to the internet. I do not see a reason why and would like to run completely