, one of the oldest and most used CFML tags, forms the basis of much code reuse. This is a good thing, until you need to edit a CFM page and all included files - then you have to open each one manually. Studio 5 addresses this with a new feature - right click on any relative and you'll be given the...
Finding yourself accidentally dragging panes in the Resource Tab when you mean to select them? You can prevent this from happening. Simply go to the Settings dialog, select the General settings, and check the Lock Tabs checkbox. Of course, you'll need to uncheck this box if you ever actually do...
Working with local and remote files, or multiple file directories? Studio (and HomeSite) 5 features two file panes within the Resource Tab (identified with a 1 and 2 on them). To activate the second file pane (the Secondary Files pane) select Resource Windows from the View menu, and then check the...
The Studio (and HomeSite) Customize dialog can be used to assign keyboard shortcuts, snippet shortcuts, and VTOM script shortcuts to specified keystrokes. When assigning keystrokes pay attention to the very bottom of the dialog - as you select a key sequence the current assignment (if there is one)...
In addition to being associated with toolbar buttons, Studio (and HomeSite) VTOM scripts may be triggered in response to specified keystrokes. To assign a VTOM script to a keystroke select Customize from the Options menu, select the Script Shortcuts tab, click Add, and then specify the script and...
A little known function available in VTML can greatly simplify generating Studio Tag Editor output in the user preferred case. Instead of managing this manually (using conditional processing and lists of strings), simply use the DefaultCase() function which will convert the string to upper or lower...
Writing your own Studio (or HomeSite) Tag Editors? Don't arbitrarily generate content in either upper or lower case - instead, check the Lowercase All Inserted Tags option and generate lowercase content if it is checked, or uppercase content if it not. (Applies to: ColdFusion Studio All)
Writing Tag Editors? Make sure to provide help files too (so as to display integrated help within the Tag Editors themselves). To do this you'll need to make sure that every user using your Tag Editor has a copy of the help file - or just put it on a shared drive and add that path to the Help Files...
Need to create (or update) a simple Tag Editor but don't want to tinker with VTML? Open the Tag Inspector pane in the Studio (or HomeSite) Resource Tab and click on the Edit Tag Definitions button (the one with the picture of the gear) to display the Tag Definitions Library dialog which can be used...
As most ColdFusion developers know, CFML comments are designated with three hyphens (as opposed to two hyphens in HTML comments). When creating Studio (or HomeSite) wizards both two hyphen and three hyphen comments will be generated along with any output code. To embed comments in the Wizard itself...