RE: Oracle RAW(50) - string conversion

2007-11-27 Thread Matt Barfoot
About 10 mins later I figured this out with isBinary and BinaryEncode(blah, Hex), in case anyone comes across the same issue. -Original Message- From: Matt Barfoot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 November 2007 23:27 To: CF-Talk Subject: Oracle RAW(50) - string conversion When I

Re: How good is cfreport?

2007-11-27 Thread Sean Corfield
On Nov 26, 2007 2:28 PM, Billy Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have experience with outputting Crystal Reports using ColdFusion? We have a number of existing Crystal Reports that I would like to leverage if possible. I am also making a purchase decision between Blue Dragon Server JX

Re: Updating to Eclipse 3.3...

2007-11-27 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Monday 26 Nov 2007, Dave Watts wrote: from 3.2 to 3.3; I think you have to simpy install 3.3. Unfortunately, I don't know how to preserve or import settings. File, Export, General, Settings. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to heterogeneously brand next-generation e-business on:

Re: Flex 2 books for CF/AS3

2007-11-27 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 23 Nov 2007, j s wrote: Can anyone recommend some titles on Flex 2 with focus on CF and AS3. Given the 'real soon' release of Flex 3, you might want one that does that. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to globally harness sexy systems on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com

CF8 and CFmail, sending duplicate emails

2007-11-27 Thread Will Swain
Hi, We recently upgraded our server to CF8. We have a number of clients who use emailing tools to send out emails to opt in lists. One of these clients did a mailout last week to a couple of lists, and it would appear that the emails all went at least twice to every member of the list. The

Re: OT:Flex image manipulator

2007-11-27 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Monday 26 Nov 2007, Andy Matthews wrote: Have any of you seen some sort of image manipulator for Flex? I'm just looking for really basic stuff like scaling and rotating (then saving). Should be possible, rotate/scale is built into Image, and I think you can snapshot any Flex component. --

RE: image effects

2007-11-27 Thread Rick Faircloth
I forgot to mention the entertainment value of the family feud between you, Dave1, and Will. :o) Rick -Original Message- From: Dave l [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:46 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: image effects I come here just to pick on Will ;)~

RE: CF8 and CFmail, sending duplicate emails

2007-11-27 Thread Will Swain
A related question - Is this a good place to use the new CFTHREAD tag? Strikes me that it probably is. Would you put it inside the loop and create a new thread for each email sent, or create one new thread separate to the page thread to handle all the emails. I've not used this tag before and am

Re: CFFILE error:formfield File does not contain a file

2007-11-27 Thread marc --
Here's the solution: Use cffile action=upload destination=#dir# filefield=FORM.file1 nameconflict=makeunique NOT cffile action=upload destination=#dir# filefield=FORM['file1'] nameconflict=makeunique For some reason CF doesn't see an uploaded file if u use the string notation FORM['file1'] to

Fixed!

2007-11-27 Thread marc --
Here's the solution: Use cffile action=upload destination=#dir# filefield=FORM.file1 nameconflict=makeunique NOT cffile action=upload destination=#dir# filefield=FORM['file1'] nameconflict=makeunique For some reason CF doesn't see an uploaded file if u use the string notation FORM['file1'] to

Re: ColdFusion 7 MX - Oracle Stored Proc Calls

2007-11-27 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Monday 26 Nov 2007, Mike Garner wrote: we are seeing that ColdFusion is issuing the stored proc call twice for a single transaction and have verified it is not due to multiple clicks How ? Just curious if there are any known threading issues with CF and Oracle stored proc calls in Oracle

RE: CF8 and CFmail, sending duplicate emails

2007-11-27 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Will, We recently upgraded our server to CF8. We have a number of clients who use emailing tools to send out emails to opt in lists. One of these clients did a mailout last week to a couple of lists, and it would appear that the emails all went at least twice to every member of the list. The

RE: Updating to Eclipse 3.3...

2007-11-27 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
from 3.2 to 3.3; I think you have to simpy install 3.3. Unfortunately, I don't know how to preserve or import settings. File, Export, General, Settings. My personal experience is it's just easier to rebuild. I've tried the export settings, but it's caused me problems in the past. I think the

RE: Updating to Eclipse 3.3...

2007-11-27 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Dan G. Switzer, II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:50 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Updating to Eclipse 3.3... from 3.2 to 3.3; I think you have to simpy install 3.3. Unfortunately, I don't know how to preserve or import

Re: How good is cfreport?

2007-11-27 Thread Kris Jones
You should be able to do pretty much anything that Crystal Reports supports with the built-in cfreport and the (free) Report Builder. Talk to Dean Harmon at Adobe if you have specific questions (since he wrote most of the reporting subsystem). Sorry, but I'm not convinced of this. I've

RE: CF8 and CFmail, sending duplicate emails

2007-11-27 Thread Will Swain
Thanks for the reply Dan, I take your point on the code. It's just that the actual code is really rather simple: cfset unsent_list = cfinvoke component=#request.cfc_root#mailing method=getListEmails returnvariable=qry_getListEmails cfinvokeargument name=listID

RE: Updating to Eclipse 3.3...

2007-11-27 Thread Andy Matthews
Crow... What settings are you talking about? Is there a single file, or a folder? Do I have to reinstall all my plugins as well? andy -Original Message- From: Crow T. Robot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:25 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Updating to

Re: How good is cfreport?

2007-11-27 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
Not positive on this, but I believe the multiple query thing was handled with CF 8... Steve Cutter Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Kris Jones wrote: You should be able to do pretty

Coldfusion Consuming a .Net Control

2007-11-27 Thread Jose Diaz
Hello All, I have had the following request past onto me: Can we pass CF a .net 3.0 dll containing a control - say the calendar control, and then allow CF to consume this dll and display the calendar. I am using CF8 and I am aware that BlueDragon could be a possible answer to this, I was

RE: Updating to Eclipse 3.3...

2007-11-27 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Andy, What settings are you talking about? Is there a single file, or a folder? Do I have to reinstall all my plugins as well? I'd recommend just extracting Eclipse v3.3 into a new folder and then re-installing the plug-ins (as I stated in another thread.) I think in the long run it'll make

Re: Updating to Eclipse 3.3...

2007-11-27 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 27 Nov 2007, Jim Davis wrote: I agree... but Eclipse really needs to consolidate and streamline the upgrade process. It's ridiculous to do this for every point release. I *believe* that it's on the roadmap somewhere to support upgrading Eclipse itself, not just plugins, via the

Re: Updating to Eclipse 3.3...

2007-11-27 Thread Crow T. Robot
Yea, Dan beat me to it, but that is what I meant in my post. I've never had luck, like others who have responded, with exporting settings or plugins. easier to just install a clean new install in another folder. On Nov 27, 2007 9:26 AM, Dan G. Switzer, II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy, What

RE: Coldfusion Consuming a .Net Control

2007-11-27 Thread Scott Stewart
You should be able to with CF8. Call it as a cfobject -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer SSTWebworks 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC. 27616 (703) 220-2835 http://www.sstwebworks.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/sstwebworks Boycott Sys-Con

Re: error caused by cfqueryparam inside cfif

2007-11-27 Thread Nicholas Vacek
Get rid of the * in the SELECT * Ben, That did the trick. Thank you! Nicholas Vacek Vivid Image - Programmer 320-587-8974 ext. 111 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vimm.com Ben Nadel wrote: Get rid of the * in the SELECT *. Using CFQueryParam causes the structure to be cached. Then, if the

Re: CF8 and CFmail, sending duplicate emails

2007-11-27 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 27 Nov 2007, Will Swain wrote: will look at implementing something that prevents this from happening - I'm think CFTHREAD is perfect here. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Yes, CFTHREAD the sending assuming the mail server can handle it. A simple thing to do for the button is use

RE: Updating to Eclipse 3.3...

2007-11-27 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Yea, Dan beat me to it, but that is what I meant in my post. I've never had luck, like others who have responded, with exporting settings or plugins. easier to just install a clean new install in another folder. Just to further elaborate. The last time I tried to migrate my installation to a

Re: How good is cfreport?

2007-11-27 Thread Jim Pennington
I've been using Crystal Reports viewed via the web for sometime. As I am using an IIS server I've been using asp pages and it works great. I am using a program called recrystallize (www.recrystallize.com) which is a wizard that processes your rpt file and you need to provide the database

RDS with Eclipse

2007-11-27 Thread Asim Manzur
using latest eclipse v3.3.1.1 Build id: M20071023-1652 trying to use the debugging option. for Ref. I use the Ben's post here http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/30/CF8-Debugger-Getting-Started But every time it comes back with the error unable to contact the rds server. It is the

Re: Coldfusion Consuming a .Net Control

2007-11-27 Thread Vince Bonfanti
Yes, this is possible with BlueDragon.NET (I can send you an example if you need it). No, I don't think this is possible with CF8, because CF8 does not provide any integration with ASP.NET, and .NET controls require the ASP.NET runtime context. CF8 integration with .NET is done via a separate

RE: Coldfusion Consuming a .Net Control

2007-11-27 Thread Ben Forta
Actually, that won't work. CF8 can consume .NET classes etc. You have access to the .NET framework and any .NET code you write yourself. But CF cannot use ASP.NET controls. I see that Vince also responded, and he is correct. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Scott Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Coldfusion Consuming a .Net Control

2007-11-27 Thread Scott Stewart
So the .net code would then call whatever controls you wanted to use. Or is there a complete disconnect between ColdFusion and .Net controls? Sorry for putting out inaccurate information. :) -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer SSTWebworks 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC. 27616 (703) 220-2835

Indexing a single pdf/word document

2007-11-27 Thread Jeff Gladnick
I need to index a pdf document into plaintext, and insert that text into a database column - not put it into a collection. Anyone ever done anything like that before? My goal is to make pdf/word documents searchable but at the same time be able to tie them back to a database record.

RE: CF8 and CFmail, sending duplicate emails

2007-11-27 Thread Will Swain
Thanks for the reply Tom, Are you talking about one thread for all the cfmails (outside the loop), or one for each mail? I'm assuming the latter wouldn't be a good plan where there might be thousands of emails, particularly on CF8 Standard. Also, with the former option, if the thread was named

Re: RDS with Eclipse

2007-11-27 Thread Crow T. Robot
I had issues with my proxy server effing things up here at work. Have you ruled out that possibility? On Nov 27, 2007 11:07 AM, Asim Manzur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: using latest eclipse v3.3.1.1 Build id: M20071023-1652 trying to use the debugging option. for Ref. I use the Ben's post here

Conceptual Search against Database(s)

2007-11-27 Thread d l
Greetings to all, I know Verity and Google search etc. etc. Try the following if you're interested in the topic, but before you begin let me issue some warnings: a) I'm not implementing some of the stuff that a beginner programmer would have implemented such as telling peole, oh query does not

Re: same line number keeps showing with cftrace

2007-11-27 Thread Bryan S
Now that everyone is back from the Holiday I'd like to try again. When I use cftrace on my local IIS or Apache Cold Fusion server the line number and file that the function was called from is displayed. When I do the same thing on our UNIX development server it always displays

RE: Coldfusion Consuming a .Net Control

2007-11-27 Thread Ben Forta
Not really, ASP.NET is not part of the integration story. Another way to look at it, kinda, is that CF8 integrates with server side ..NET stuff, but not client side .NET stuff, like the ASP.NET UI controls. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Scott Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Using View Templates and Subtemplates

2007-11-27 Thread Richard Banister
Hello all, In the past, I applied a global template by creating header and footer includes. However, I am impressed with the implementation of templates and subtemplates by Model-Glue:Unity for the view. The problem is MG:U may be overkill for our small projects. Is there a simple solution to

CF8 Dynamic Dropdowns

2007-11-27 Thread Steve Sequenzia
Hi All, Can I get some help figuring out how to connect two dropdowns dynamically? I am working a shoe database and I need to allow the user to select a size from a dropdown and then from there I need to have another dropdown called quantity updated with the amount of quantity based on the

Re: Conceptual Search against Database(s)

2007-11-27 Thread James Wolfe
dl, I was the one who posted about Verity. Sadly, I didnt understand your email or find any more information on your website. What exactly is your approach? How would I implement it on my site? Is it proprietary? Does it build on verity? Does it cost money? Greetings to all, I know

Re: CF8 Dynamic Dropdowns

2007-11-27 Thread Charlie Griefer
just to throw another option out there... it could potentially all be done client side via javascript. create a 2d javascript array based on your query data. the onchange event from dropdown 1 would update the options in dropdown 2 based on that array. On Nov 27, 2007 11:35 AM, Steve Sequenzia

Re: Coldfusion Consuming a .Net Control

2007-11-27 Thread Vince Bonfanti
Another way to look at it, kinda, is that CF8 integrates with server side .NET stuff, but not client side .NET stuff, like the ASP.NET UI controls. I see the point you're trying to make, but this isn't really accurate. An ASP.NET control is equivalent to a CFML tag, and is rendered completely on

Re: Conceptual Search against Database(s)

2007-11-27 Thread d l
James, Yes, it would cost money but not expensive... It has nothing to do with Verity nor Google. What's your email address? We could discuss more offline. Don dl, I was the one who posted about Verity. Sadly, I didnt understand your email or find any more information on your

Re: CF8 Dynamic Dropdowns

2007-11-27 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
Ben Forta wrote a post back in May that covers the basics of how to do this with CF 8: http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/31/ColdFusion-Ajax-Tutorial-2-Related-Selects Steve Cutter Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer

Re: CF8 Dynamic Dropdowns

2007-11-27 Thread Will Tomlinson
Hi All, Can I get some help figuring out how to connect two dropdowns dynamically? I do it like charlie said, but I use mxajax. Works nicely, and I even have up to 8 related menus. Will ~| Download the latest

Re: CF8 Dynamic Dropdowns

2007-11-27 Thread Dana Kowalski
hi, jquery has some plugins to do dynamic dropdowns. The footprints for jquery and the plugins are fairly small, and the ramp up time to use it in production is insignificant. http://jquery.com ~| Check out the new features

Re: Updating to Eclipse 3.3...

2007-11-27 Thread Rebecca Younes
To copy existing projects along with local history, copy the folder .metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources from your workspace. You can also copy the snippets folder. The default location is .metadata\.plugins\org.cfeclipse.cfml\snippets, or you can check CFEclipse preferences if

RE: How good is cfreport?

2007-11-27 Thread Billy Cox
Thanks for the input. It is very helpful. -Original Message- From: Jim Pennington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:46 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: How good is cfreport? I've been using Crystal Reports viewed via the web for sometime. As I am using an IIS

Connecting to a mysql database

2007-11-27 Thread gkerby
I can't create a mysql datasource in CF Administrator. If I use the following datasource settings in CF Administrator: JDBC URL: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test Drive Class: MySQL Connector J AND (note the emphasis) I set my local and remote folders in my DW site local folder, remote folder

Checking that a file is to be uploaded

2007-11-27 Thread Toby King
Hi there I was just looking at your product Terraform and am interested in getting some more information on the product and possibly even purchasing it (for a future project). One piece of info I am after right now – is this. I have a site developed -

Re: Connecting to a mysql database

2007-11-27 Thread Toby King
What version of ColdFusion are you running. There is a special connector that you may ahve to install to enable you to connect to a MySQL database. It is the mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.21-win32 available form the MySQL website. Download it and instal and then you also have to place a copy in a

Re: Checking that a file is to be uploaded

2007-11-27 Thread Alan Rother
Try this: Change this line if (o.type=='text'||o.type=='password'||o.type=='hidden'){ to if (o.type=='text'||o.type=='password'||o.type=='hidden'||o.type=='file'){ And add this to your form tag ,'attachment_1','#q','0','Please upload an abstract' After 'email','S','2','Please enter a

Re: image effects

2007-11-27 Thread Dave l
lol Will's more like the family dog that gets beat. I forgot to mention the entertainment value of the family feud between you, Dave1, and Will. :o) Rick ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top

OT: SQL Data Type

2007-11-27 Thread ColdFusion
What are the benefits on using a CHAR field versus VARCHAR? I know with a CHAR(10) field that if the data is: START then the actual value is: START_ _ _ _ _ rather than a VARCHAR(10) of START. ~| Create robust

Re: SQL Data Type

2007-11-27 Thread Will Tomlinson
What are the benefits on using a CHAR field versus VARCHAR? Well, using char can be a bit speedier when querying, but takes up more disk space. You want to use char when all the data in that field will be close to the same length. the db will pad it, so it ends up taking up more space than if

RE: SQL Data Type

2007-11-27 Thread ColdFusion
But when using CHAR within a SQL Statement don't you need to use a REPEATSTRING or a TRIM statement for proper validation so ensure that the value in the database matches the same length of the variable itself? I mainly use VARCHAR set to a size of the largest value expected. I only use CHAR when

Re: Connecting to a mysql database

2007-11-27 Thread Adrian Moreno
You've almost got it: JDBC URL - jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test Driver Class - com.mysql.jdbc.Driver Driver Name - MySQL Connector/J HTH, Adrian I can't create a mysql datasource in CF Administrator. If I use the following datasource settings in CF Administrator: JDBC URL: