cf_window (extJS) and css

Posted At : January 9, 2008 7:16 AM | Posted By : Trond Ulseth
Related Categories: DHTML / Javascript, CSS, ColdFusion
In my work I'm working on a site where many companies will be presented, and each company should be able to go in and edit their own details.

I wanted to avoid a solution where each company would have to log into the FarCry administrator (as most sites we do this one is also made using FarCry CMS). So I decided to have a login link on each company presentation site. As I came upon this blog post I decided to try cf_window and have the login form come up in a window instead of the login link leading to a separate login page.

Within minutes I had a nice looking login window on the site. However I noticed that some other elements in the page did not look as (good as) before. A quick check with Firebug showed that a css file /cfext/ext/resources/css/ext-all.css now was linked to and that this file setting some general css styles (like the size of all header elements to be font-size:100%

I don't know if this is standard extJS behavior, but this is BAD (leave my CSS alone!).

So I just went ahead an commented out line 9 - 15 in this css file and all is now good :)

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Some (unfinished) thougts on IDE's for ColdFusion

Posted At : January 9, 2008 3:34 AM | Posted By : Trond Ulseth
Related Categories: ColdFusion, Eclipse
I guess everybody now have heard about and taken the ColdFusion IDE survey which hopefully will be used by Adobe to create a official editor.

Some time ago I forced myself to change from DreamWeaver over to CFEclipse - and for the most part I don't look back. But I do have very mixed feelings on the whole Eclipse deal. It feels kind of bloated. And also I'm not to happy to deal with different plugins for different purposes, that still sometimes step on each others toes. And then there is the different versions of plugins not playing with the same versions of Eclipse. At the same time I really like to have SVN, debugging etc. right there in my editor.

Today I accidentally found out about CFTextmate, and the screen cast impressed me. Very nice.

I then found out that due to lack of further development of CFTextmate, that Neil Middleton has created a "new version" called Coldfusion for Textmate, which will have support for CF8, BlueDragon as well as many of the ColdFusion frameworks out there.

So I'm not sure what I'll end up with in the end, but I'm kinda hoping that Adobe will take all the best aspects from DreamWeaver (without all the design bloat), Eclipse/CFEclipse, and the TextMate based ones, and have it feature rich enough (SVN etc.) and at the same time "simple" enough. Not an easy task indeed, as every developer will have their own view on what features needs to be in there and how it should or should not work. But if there should be any point in Adobe releasing a CF IDE it needs to be better than what's available now.

So I'm crossing my fingers and wait impatiently.

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