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doncx
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January 30, 2010
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Builder internal browser questions/issues

  • January 30, 2010
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Dang -

This thing is complicated!  When it comes to config, I'm hanging by a thread.  The docs seem to explain things in the same terms as they are labeled on the screens, not really explaining what those terms mean.

I have been using Eclipse/CFEclipse for several years and am now trying the builder beta3.  Builder is on computer A and ColdFusion, IIS, DB, and code is on computer B.  They are right next to each other and directories are mapped in Windows, but Builder is set up for 'remote' server.  Generally, its working and I'm very happy with many of its features.

Three questions:

1.  Is there a way to have the internal browser visible AND the source code visible, as it is in CFEclipse?

2.  I am accustomed to having a location bar on the internal browser.  This can be very helpful when I want to send URL parameters to a script for testing.  But CFB doesn't seem to have a location bar.  Is there a way to expose it?

3.  Some of my scripts create popups i.e. window.open(...), but these appear in the base internal browser window and then don't properly close and return to/refresh the parent (because they replaced it in the base window).  Why is this?  Is there a way to get child windows to open as child windows?

My thanks for your replies.

- Don

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Adam Cameron.
Inspiring
January 30, 2010

I can't answer your question, as I don't use the internal browser in CFB, but noticed you said this:

The docs seem to explain things in the same terms as they are labeled on the screens, not really explaining what those terms mean.

I could not agree more.  It's as if the CFB documentation team don't understand what the point of documentation is.  There's no point in simply parrotting what's already on the screen in front of the person.  This is not helpful: it's just frustrating.  The docs should be explaining a given feature.  Not just describing what one can already see.  I can only hope that almost all of the docs available so far is just placeholder material, not the actual documentation.  CFB is still beta, after all.

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Adam

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doncxAuthor
Known Participant
January 30, 2010

Hey Adam!

If you are using an external browser, can you tell me (high level) how you set that up? Does it worth with the debugger?

Thanks,

Don

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Adam Cameron.
Inspiring
January 30, 2010

I open Firefox and browse to the URL I want to see.  There's no trick to it ;-)

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Adam

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