I have the Trac page with the File Explorer issue in CFEclipse automatically opening in one of the tabs when I open my browser. Until recently nothing was there except the bug report itself. But now it seems something is happening. Someone with the username burnsra has posted a fix, so now I guess we'll just have to wait for the fix to make it into a upgrade.

Have a look at the Trac page here.

It's been a while since I made the transition to CFEclipse as my full-time CF coding tool.

However, even after Mark's heroic efforts after me bugging him the FTP functionality in the File Explorer left a little to be desired. This I could live with though. But now that the File Explorer itself has stopped working, so I can no longer open any local files that are not part of a project, that is worse. We have a "zillion" clients in work and to create a project to fix or update small things is not something I want to do.

But I came up with a temporary work-around:

Created a project called "temp" and pointet it to wherever. For each location on your computer or (as in my case) the local network, right click on the project and choose "New > Folder". Name the folder something like "Our smaller clients" or whatever suits the location you are interested in. Then click the "Advanced" button on the bottom and check the "Link to folder in the file system" check box, and browse to the directory you need.

This way you can still have access to all the local files you need without opening a new project each time.

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ps - you can keep an eye at the situation with the File Explorer at http://trac.cfeclipse.org/cfeclipse/ticket/332

pss - Mark you're still my hero, and well deserve the break you've taken of from CFEclipse. However, when you get back to it, and wonder where to start of, you know where my vote is ;)

I started with ANT today. I see a huge potential in it. However I have now used the whole day trying to get two tings to work - and simply can't find the answer. I hope some ANT experts will take the time to answer the following questions:

1. Can I create a new Eclipse project with a ANT build? If so, how?

2. I get an error trying to create a database for my project with the following code:

The error: CREATE DATABASE statement not allowed within multi-statement transaction.

Is there a way to use CREATE DATABASE statements from within ANT?

As always when I ask for help - I would be really thankful to anybody who can shed light on these subjects.

I have no clue why, but all of a sudden browsing the Local Filesystem in the File Explorer View stopped working. I had hoped this would be corrected when I upgraded to Eclipse 3.3 today, but the problem is the same, even though I made a clean new install of Eclipse.

See bellow to see how it looks when I try to browse my c: directory. If someone has any idea on how I can fix this I would be most grateful.

I decided to upgrade to version 3.3 of Eclipse today. I went for a clean install, and then add the plugins I use. So after installing CFEclipse first (of course), I went on over to the Aptana website to get the Aptana plugin (which I mainly use for CSS), and there on the front page they announce that Aptana now supports AIR.

I've not checked it out my self yet. Actually I took the time to write this post even before downloading the Aptana plugin. So go check it out your self at: http://www.aptana.org/air/.

I'm not a very advanced user of SVN, and up until now I've used TortoiseSVN as the client of my choice. However being that I now have a mac at home I needed to find a SVN client for OSX. However I could not find anything that looked as easy to use as Tortoise.

I've been using (CF)Eclipse for quite a while, but for some reason I always thought that Subclipse is a advanced/difficult SVN client. However, realizing that I should probably learn it I decided to go ahead and (try to) use that on the mac.

To make it short: It's awesome. It's every bit as easy to use as Tortoise, and the fact that you create a new Eclipse project as part of setting up your local working copy is one of those things that really makes it worth while.

I've just scratched the surface of Subclipse yet, but it is the SVN client of choice for me from now on - yes, even on Windows machines.

Some of you might be thinking something along the lines of "Instead of just going on about how easy and great it is - why can't he tell us how to use it?". Well my friends, I see no reason to, because there is already a VERY GOOD explanation available, and which is the one I used to get started. It's written by Aaron West and can be found at his blog.

So Aaron, if you ever read this, Thanx a lot mate!

I hereby declare Mark Drew winner of the Man of the Month award. The work Mark does with CFEclipse is nothing short of amazing. I think his attention to the needs and wishes of the community by far exceeds what most commercial enterprises do.

So Mark, as you know I don't drink (alcohol that is), but never the less I raise my virtual glass of Jack Daniels in praise of you and the work you do with CFEclipse.

I encourage all that reads this and who are using CFEclipse to leave a comment raising your virtual glass as well!

Most of the websites I work on has Norwegian as the main or only language. To make sure Norwegian letters (æ,ø and å) looks good in web browsers we have to use UTF-8 as page encoding, and also insert a BOM mark.

In Dreamweaver this is really simple to do, and I've set it to automatically use UTF-8 and include BOM mark on every new page I create.

In Eclipse/CFEclipse however there seems to be no choice for adding BOM marks in your pages. After a while of desperate Googling (this would be crucial if I'm to use CFEclipse as my editor) I came upon a workaround that seems to be working. Not surprisingly the solution was proposed by Paul Hastings.

The solution was found here, where Paul says "each of our coldfusion pages starts with: <cfprocessingdirective pageencoding="utf-8">"

So now I added ...

... to one of the pages containing Norwegian letters and it seems to work.

Now I hate the idea of having to add this to all pages we create, but if Paul Hastings is doing it, then it is probably not a bad idea anyway....

Ok - once again I have decided to try and make the switch over to CFEclipse as my main coding editor, but it's not making it easy. I'll try and be tough and fight trough whatever obstacle I meet (at least until a certain level). I will however need to ask for some advice/assistance now and then, so here goes question number one:

I'm trying to create a new snip. I enter idlheader as both Snippet name, Trigger text and Snippet description, and then I put in a block of code as Snippet starting block.

And somehow the block of code gets erased and the Snippet description gets changed to "Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence."

If i change the code block with something like "hahaha" it works, but pasting in my code it gets weird on me again.

Anyone have any idea what can cause this problem?

Here's the code I try to enter:

(It's a replacement for the standard dmHeader that comes with FarCry, should you wonder).

UPDATE: When I copied and pasted the code from this blog post it worked. However it failed when I tried to copy it in from a open .cfm file in Eclipse, and the same from Dreamweaver and from Notepad.