Controls used within Studio (and HomeSite) Wizard pages are populated dynamically at runtime, unless the page is of TYPE="dynamic". This page type cannot contain any dynamically populated controls. (Applies to: ColdFusion Studio All)
Within ColdFusion Studio (and HomeSite) Wizards and Tag Editors, variables (also known as parameters) are enclosed within curly braces and preceded by $$. So, variable "name" is referred to as $${name}. (Applies to: ColdFusion Studio All)
If you are planning on writing your own Studio (or HomeSite) wizards, you'll know that every Wizard must have a definition file (a .vtw file). The basic contents of this file are: tags enclose the entire file, tags define the variables the Wizard will be creating or manipulating, tags specify the...
Want to create wizards in Studio (or HomeSite)? You can. The trick is to learn two markup languages, VTML (the same VTML used to create Tag Editors) and WIZML. Creating a Wizard involves creating a wizard definition file (with a .vtw extension) and one or more wizard output templates (each saved...
Written a great VTOM script and want one-click access to it on demand? Studio lets you do this. Simply right click on any toolbar, select Customize, Add Custom Button, select Execute an ActiveScript file, and then specify your VTOM script. That script will now be executed whenever the button is...
Within the Main() function in a Studio (or HomeSite) VTOM script the local application object is always made available. This is what must be used to access all other objects. It is advisable for every Main() function to define a reference to the Application object for future use (as opposed to...
When Studio (or HomeSite) executes a VTOM script it looks for a function named Main() as the script entry point. Main() need not be the first (or only) function in the script file, but it must always be present or an error message will be displayed. (Applies to: ColdFusion Studio All)
ColdFusion Studio (and HomeSite) VTOM scripts may be written in JScript or VBScript. JScript files should always be named with a .js extension, VBScript files should be named with an extension of either .vbs or .bas. (Applies to: ColdFusion Studio All)
The CFML REFind() and REReplace() functions (and related case-insensitive functions) provide access to Regular Expression processing within your CFML code. When writing Regular Expressions you may use the following escape sequences to refer to non-printable characters - n for new-line (ASCII 10), f...
Using cfstat on your Unix box to monitor ColdFusion performance and statistics? Execute cfstat -help to display definitions of the counters and other help. (Applies to: ColdFusion Unix versions)