Re: How to move CFIDE in CF8?

2007-09-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Jim McAtee wrote: When I installed CF8, it placed the CFIDE folder under the source directory of the default web site and created a virtual directory in IIS pointing at the folder. That's not a good location for our use, so I'd like to move it. I tried, and changed the IIS virtual

Re: Light-duty CF intranet server?

2007-09-10 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 07 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be open to Linux, but I have already drunk the MS SQL Server red kool­aid. So you're going to have to by a Windows license anyway. May as well stay on that. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to economically market plug-and-play communities on:

Re: MS SQL 2005 and CFMX 7.02Ent

2007-09-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
John Paul Ashenfelter wrote: On 9/7/07, Wil Genovese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking this got lost in yesterday's backlog. Does anyone have any clues on this? Not directly, but 2 years ago I did do some analysis of MSSQL JDBC drivers as part of a project and we ended up looking at

Re: CFTHREAD - naming threads when you dont care (too much) about the name

2007-09-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Paul Vernon wrote: cfthread name=#CreateUUID()# action=run eventArgs=#arguments# !--- event invocation code here... --- /cfthread The problem I'm seeing is that when lots of small events are firing, using cfthread is actually slower than not threading the code because along with the

Re: Odd behavior when using cfform inside a CFC

2007-09-10 Thread Charles Sheehan-Miles
Jaime interesting question, and yes, the CFC in this case is stored in the session scope. Andrew ... for a lot of reasons, I chose to have the view layer implemented in a CFC. The application is set up such that a user creates their own templates, and then uses keywords inside those

RE: Odd behavior when using cfform inside a CFC

2007-09-10 Thread Jaime Metcher
Well, this really is just a wild guess, but maybe it's worth trying re-instantiating the CFC on every request. CFFORM could be stashing some state in that CFC. Jaime Metcher -Original Message- From: Charles Sheehan-Miles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 10 September 2007 6:58

Re: Smart Parsing of E-mail Attachments...

2007-09-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Dan G. Switzer, II wrote: One of the problems I'm facing with an application is that I need to smartly parse out attachments from an e-mail. This means I need to ignore attachments that are strictly for HTML formatting (such as footer images or ads,) but need to find attachments that might

Re: Help with Simple SQL Insert

2007-09-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Aaron Roberson wrote: Query Error: Data truncation: Out of range value adjusted for column 'ordernumber' at row 1 Here is the SQL statement: INSERT INTO orders(ordernumber, tax, shipping, total) VALUES(558972266568040,0.0,4.75,24.7) In my database (MySQL 5) I have the following fields in

Re: CFECLIPSE 'Error opening the editor' JavaFileEditorInput error

2007-09-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Robert Harrison wrote: Which version did you use. I too had that same issue and eventually decided it was the all-in-one I was downloading. So which is the best version to use? Eclipse 3.3 requires CFEclipse 1.3.1.5 Jochem

Re: Can't Install ColdFusion 8 on Windows XP Home , Dell comp.

2007-09-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
John Martinez wrote: I tried to manually start the coldfusion 8 application server and when I did that i got this message Windows could not start the ColdFusion 8 Application Server on Local Computer, For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft

Re: cfexecute ffmpeg

2007-09-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Mark Lewis wrote: cfexecute name=directory\ffmpeg.exe arguments = -i directory\testvid2.avi directory\testvid2.flv outputfile=c:\ timeout=0 /cfexecute Why the 0 timeout? Set something reasonable so the conversion has time to process. Jochem

Re: charting solution for using with CF

2007-09-10 Thread Jim Wright
I got curious about whether you could output those gauge charts...and this code works, but it outputs the Developer Edition watermark on the output...even though the server is a licensed version of CF7 (the data and style were just straight from the example one in the webcharts builder)

Re: cfexecute ffmpeg

2007-09-10 Thread Mark Lewis
Jochem, You are right, but I was setting the timeout for periods up to 20minutes, and the process was crashing. I seem to have found a temporary fix to this problem by running the cfexecute twice? Odd as it sounds, it does the trick. If you could think of a less shoddy fix to this problem or

Report Builder - Is there really no can grow feature?

2007-09-10 Thread Andrew Peterson
Hello, Does Report Builder have a can grow / can shrink feature in either version 7 or 8 that we can't find? We're issuing news releases as pdf files via report builder. The body of the report has one field - content that may have one page worth of text, or it may have more. If it has two

RE: cfexecute ffmpeg

2007-09-10 Thread Russ
0 timeout means don't wait for the thread to finish, correct? It basically spawns the process and keeps processing the page... BTW ffmpeg will only do flash 7 right? I'm looking to do flash8, but the folks at on2 want 5K per year for the conversion engine. That's kind of steep if you ask me.

cf 6.01 cfmail - css

2007-09-10 Thread Paul Ihrig
ok i have a cfmail file that is ignoring the defined styled on the included page that is mailed. if i hard code the background colors fonts info with out styles it works fine but if i either cfmail to=[EMAIL PROTECTED] from=[EMAIL PROTECTED] subject=Your vv.com Order Confirmation type=html

Re: Creating HTML Content Wrapper for Email

2007-09-10 Thread Paul Ihrig
Hey Mik. so should any style type stuff then be hard coded into the page. like background color, font size et? thanks! -paul On 3/6/07, Mik Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stand corrected. Do not use the CSS style declaration in the HTML head tag, as you might when authoring web pages.

Re: cf 6.01 cfmail - css

2007-09-10 Thread Wil Genovese
Most web based email such as Yahoo and Google tend to ignore the style section. I've tested many web email and stand alone email clients and found the only way to ensure the styles work as you intend are to use inline style definitions. ie. lt;div style=blah: blah;gt; -- Wil Genovese One

Replacing the CFDJ awards.... ?

2007-09-10 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
Folks, While I'm certainly neither surprised or upset by the demise of CFDJ, I always did get a lot of vicarious pleasure out of the yearly CFDJ awards. Regardless of the value of such awards (and no offense to any recipients or nominees) such a popularity contest is always useful in one way or

Re: Replacing the CFDJ awards.... ?

2007-09-10 Thread James Holmes
How about a community driven award, for and by the community? On 9/10/07, John Paul Ashenfelter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, While I'm certainly neither surprised or upset by the demise of CFDJ, I always did get a lot of vicarious pleasure out of the yearly CFDJ awards. Regardless of the

Re: Replacing the CFDJ awards.... ?

2007-09-10 Thread todd sharp
How about a community driven award, for and by the community? I plan on doing the CFeMmy awards again this year - and hope to have it run much smoother and become more relevant this time around. http://cfsilence.com/blog/client/index.cfm/2006/12/22/2006-CFeMmys--And-The-Winners-Are

Re: Odd behavior when using cfform inside a CFC

2007-09-10 Thread Brian Kotek
You could try dumping the variables scope of the CFC to see if cfform is putting something in there. But whatever the problem is, I'm pretty sure it must be related to the fact that the CFC is being stored in a shared scope. Does switching to a per-request CFC allow the JavaScript to work

Re: cf 6.01 cfmail - css

2007-09-10 Thread Paul Ihrig
Thanks Wil! thats what i have read as well. kinda stinks, but o well... ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates.

Dynamic CSS

2007-09-10 Thread Bruce Sorge
Good morning everyone. I have a question. I am working on our school's websites and rather than have 12 different style sheets, I would like to have one style sheet that has three classes where the background-color attribute is dynamic. So how would I go about doing this? Now I can create a

Re: lt;cfexecutegt; amp; ffmpeg

2007-09-10 Thread Tom de Manincor
test i tried to post a solution but havent seen it show up yet ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now

Re: Dynamic CSS

2007-09-10 Thread Barney Boisvert
You could pass .css files through the CF interpreter, but then you'd lose the benefits of static files (caching, direct serving, etc.). The easiest solution (and the one I'd pick) is probably to just write that one background-color attribute into the page directly with a STYLE tag. Short of that,

Re: amp;lt;cfexecuteamp;gt; amp;amp; ffmpeg

2007-09-10 Thread Tom de Manincor
ORIGINAL POST brbr FFMPEG and CF are no match made in heaven. brbr My advice it to stay away from CFEXECUTE when using FFMPEG. We used the Java Runtime library to fire off the thread and had much better results. brbr I posted the code and details on my blog for reference. brbr Check it out here a

RE: Dynamic CSS

2007-09-10 Thread Jake Churchill
What I do is dynamically set an ID in the body tag. body id=typeA So, if I have the following class: div.main {...} I can add the color by setting #typeA div.main {background-color:#xx;} Repeat for each color: #typeB div.main {background-color:#xx;} #typeC div.main

Re: Dynamic CSS

2007-09-10 Thread Pete Ruckelshaus
I serve .cfm files as linked stylesheets all the time. i.e. link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/lib/styles.cfm?styleid=1 / It might be your best/most flexible option. On 9/10/07, Bruce Sorge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning everyone. I have a question. I am working on our school's

Re: Can't Install ColdFusion 8 on Windows XP Home , Dell comp.

2007-09-10 Thread Shane Zehnder
Also, I would make sure that if you had any firewall app, etc. running I would switch it off while doing the install. ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF

RE: Dynamic CSS

2007-09-10 Thread Andy Matthews
Just link to a css page like so: link rel=stylesheet href=styles.cfm / Works a treat. -Original Message- From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 12:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Dynamic CSS You could pass .css files through the CF

RE: Replacing the CFDJ awards.... ?

2007-09-10 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT)
Am I missing something here? Was there an announcement about CFDJ going away? Nothing on the cfdj main page. Steve -Original Message- From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:47 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Replacing the CFDJ awards ? How

Re: Dynamic CSS

2007-09-10 Thread Ben Doom
I can think of several different ways to handle this. 1) Process .css files. Bad plan -- it eats resources processing what should be static files. B) Put the static classes in one file, and the changing ones in css files that are dynamically linked. Three) Put the static classes in one

Re: Replacing the CFDJ awards.... ?

2007-09-10 Thread Michael Dinowitz
We broke the news Saturday night and its been picked up on and reported across the CF blogs: http://www.blogoffusion.com/index.cfm/2007/9/8/syscon-drops-coldfusion-for-silverlight http://www.fusionauthority.com/news/4705-sys-con-drops-coldfusion-for-silverlight.htm

Re: Replacing the CFDJ awards.... ?

2007-09-10 Thread Kris Jones
Scroll down a bit. Am I missing something here? Was there an announcement about CFDJ going away? Nothing on the cfdj main page. ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles

RE: Replacing the CFDJ awards.... ?

2007-09-10 Thread Michael E. Carluen
LOL, Steve. That is probably why I never liked reading CFDJ, or any SysCon published material for that matter. You could never see what you are looking for even if its right in front of you. A minute on any of their site sends me running for some aspirin. -Original Message- From:

Re: Replacing the CFDJ awards.... ?

2007-09-10 Thread todd sharp
Am I missing something here? Was there an announcement about CFDJ going away? Nothing on the cfdj main page. Steve That's Steve, always late ;) ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax

RE: Dynamic CSS

2007-09-10 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Bruce, I have a question. I am working on our school's websites and rather than have 12 different style sheets, I would like to have one style sheet that has three classes where the background-color attribute is dynamic. So how would I go about doing this? Now I can create a css.cfm page and load

Adobe MAX and training survey, CFUNITED Express Chicago

2007-09-10 Thread Michael Smith
In this issue of ColdFusion conference and training news: 1. CFUNITED News - MAX and training survey 2. DC area Class news - Management Seminar How to Build Websites Right, the First Time Happy coding - Michael Smith, TeraTech, Inc http://www.teratech.com/ Creating excellent custom

Re: RSS Feed

2007-09-10 Thread C Broan
Thanks to everyone how replied to this thread. I appreciate the advice. One last question: Where can I find information about how to format the RSS XML file? Thanks again. CWB - Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.

Re: Replacing the CFDJ awards.... ?

2007-09-10 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
Regardless of the value of such awards (and no offense to any recipients or nominees) such a popularity contest is always useful in one way or another. And that's my issue with itall it was was a popularity contest. Nominees would win on name recognition alone, had nothing whatsoever to do

Re: RSS Feed

2007-09-10 Thread Wil Genovese
Try this place. I use it all the type to validate my RSS. http://feedvalidator.org -- Wil Genovese One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. C Broan wrote: Thanks to everyone how replied to this thread. I

RE: Dynamic CSS

2007-09-10 Thread Andy Matthews
Better to ask CF to render multiple files than have to manage multiple versions of each file. Think how it might look if they had 5 color files Dan. They'd have to manage each style in SIX files. -Original Message- From: Dan G. Switzer, II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Odd database behavior: duplicate key error

2007-09-10 Thread Josh Nathanson
Hey all, In an inherited application, we have the following pseudo-code - two queries, one right after the other: cfquery DELETE FROM table WHERE ID = '#myidstring#' /cfquery cfquery INSERT INTO table (ID) VALUES ('#myidstring#') /cfquery Given this scenario, it would seem that you could

Re: Odd database behavior: duplicate key error

2007-09-10 Thread Barney Boisvert
You probably have a race condition, where two people execute the code at the same time, and the order goes like this: A - delete B - delete A - insert B - insert In this case, you'd expect the fourth statement (the second insert) to throw the dupe key exception. cheers, barneyb On 9/10/07,

Re: Odd database behavior: duplicate key error

2007-09-10 Thread Jake Pilgrim
If this is true - wrap the code in a named lock: cflock name=aUniqueLockName type=exclusive your SQL here /cflock A named lock ensures that only one thread at a time will be allowed to run the code within the cflock tag. CFTransaction will not give you this same level of isolation. Jake

Re: Odd database behavior: duplicate key error

2007-09-10 Thread Josh Nathanson
Thanks Jake and Barney, I'll lock it and see if that helps. -- Josh - Original Message - From: Jake Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 2:50 PM Subject: Re: Odd database behavior: duplicate key error If this is true - wrap

Error Casting an Object.

2007-09-10 Thread Matt Blatchley
I've been trying for quite some time now to figure out why I'm getting this error: Error casting an object of type to an incompatible type. This usually indicates a programming error in Java, although it could also mean you have tried to use a foreign object in a different way than it was

RE: Dynamic CSS

2007-09-10 Thread Eric Roberts
You could also put the style block in the application.cfm and then use variables for the colors. Eric -Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 12:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Dynamic CSS Good morning everyone. I have a question. I am

Re: Error Casting an Object

2007-09-10 Thread Matt Blatchley
Figured it out. Duh I must have copied the cfquery line from some other part of the application because there was a cachedwithin= on an insert :) and as soon as I removed it, everything worked fine. Sometimes a new pair of eyes helps :) Matt

RE: Dynamic CSS

2007-09-10 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 3:08 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Dynamic CSS Better to ask CF to render multiple files than have to manage multiple versions of each file. Think how it might look if they had 5 color

RE: Dynamic CSS

2007-09-10 Thread Bruce Sorge
Well this is all good stuff guys. Thanks. This gives me some things to try out. Bruce -Original Message- From: Jim Davis Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 7:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Dynamic CSS If you're comfortable with client-script you can easily apply the color overrides that

Re: charting solution for using with CF

2007-09-10 Thread Jim Wright
A warning for anyone that might want to try the code I sent earlier. I noticed after sending it that all charts produced with cfchart on that server now had the Developer Edition watermark. Restarting CF clears it up, but as soon as I run the code that connects directly to the webcharts class, it

Re: charting solution for using with CF

2007-09-10 Thread Paul Hastings
Jim Wright wrote: A warning for anyone that might want to try the code I sent earlier. I noticed after sending it that all charts produced with cfchart on that server now had the Developer Edition watermark. Restarting CF clears it up, but as soon as I run the code that connects directly to

RE: Dynamic CSS

2007-09-10 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
I just use a .cfm as my dynamic stylesheets and use cfcontent type=text/css reset=yes / at the top. Then you just call it the same way you would a normal .css link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=dynamicStyles.cfm / You can use all the CF you want in it now. It will be up to you to decide what