June 2005 Archive

Splitting Flash Form item labels over multiple lines

Splitting long item labels in Flash Forms in ColdFusion MX 7 couldn’t be easier. All you need to do is use:

[code lang=“cf”]
#chr(10)#
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Or even:

[code lang=“cf”]
#chr(13)#
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They both work.

Here’s a screenshot:

Here’s the code snippet:

[code lang=“cf”]

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Posted by Niklas Richardson on 01 Jun 2005

CFDUMP that Flash Form!!

Ever wanted to see what is created under the hood when you use Flash Forms? Well, don’t worry you can.

Andi Hindle from Macromedia showed a neat trick at Scotch on the Rocks last week. If you name your Flash Form and then after the form use CFDUMP, it will in fact dump the MXML. Put the CFDUMP inbetween PRE tags and then it will format the output nicely.

[code lang=“cf”]

…

<cfdump var="#frmDumpThis#">

[/code]

Posted by Niklas Richardson on 01 Jun 2005

Ben Forta to present at UK ColdFusion User Group on 22nd June

We are extremely lucky this month to have Ben Forta visiting us in London. We have rescheduled this month’s user group meeting to allow him to present at the UK ColdFusion User Group. He will be presenting on Event Gateways in CFMX 7.

The meeting will take place on 22nd June at City University in London from 6:30pm onwards.

Here is the presentation synopsis:

“Event Gateways, introduced in ColdFusion MX 7, open ColdFusion to integration with all sorts of back-ends and technologies. From asynchronous processing, to JMS, to SMS and IM … event gateways radically change what ColdFusion is capable of and what your applications can accomplish.”

Register for the meeting.

Posted by Niklas Richardson on 09 Jun 2005