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Anonymous
January 10, 2011
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From CF Studio to CF Builder...

  • January 10, 2011
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I've developed using CF Studio for the last 11 years. Yes, 11 years. I started in January 2000 and learned on it and even when I've tried other editors I've come back to CF Studio every time.

I just downloaded Builder and so far, it looks like a new version of Studio. Great! However, as I'm poking around with it, I can't find some stuff that I used to use all the time in Studio.

For example, Builder has a little tag reference list up at the top of my cfm file, with a few basic elements that it will stick in the document on their own, or around the text you have highlighted. However, I'm not finding the extensive "QuickBars" that were in Studio - including common, tables, CFML Basic, CFML advanced, CFForm, CFML flow and others.

Are they out there somewhere and I haven't found them yet? Can I download them from someplace? Are they just gone?

Yes, I understand there will be differences, I'm just trying to find some of my "old favorites"

Thanks!

Michelle

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henkemike
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January 10, 2011

First off, Congrats on the switch to Eclipse and CFBuilder. First you should learn some Eclipse basics. Eclipse documentation is great. This tutorial, I actually read this weekend. http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/gettingStarted/qs-02a.htm

Now with that disclaimer out of the way :-)

For "QuickBars", you can customize your menu and toolbars as shown in the tutorial I mentioned above but as for all the items you mentioned I don't think they are available. But Eclipse/CFBuilder has a great set of key assists (shortcuts) and snippets that will be even better then using the mouse.

Key Assists (Shortcuts)

To see the shortcuts available, in the editor panel shift-ctrl-l should show you all the ones available. If that doesn't work go to Windows > Preferences > ColdFusion > Profiles > Keys and then remove the binding associated with ctrl-shift-l.

While you are in the keys you can sort by category and look at the CFML Editor shortcuts.

Snippets

CFBuilder also has customizable snippets which you can access with key shortcuts. I am not too familiar with them but if you google snippets, coldfusion, and eclipse I am sure you'll find alot of resources.

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Anonymous
January 10, 2011

Snippets are great, I use them all the time with Studio.

Thanks for the Eclipse info, I'll check that out!

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Anonymous
January 17, 2011

Another thing I'm not "getting..."

Is there drag and drop ability in the interface? In other words, I have a number of files in a project, and I want to add one to the page I'm working on. If I drag it to the window from the side bar (the "file panel") it opens instead of creating an ancor tag. The same thing happens when I drag an image file, it opens the .jpg file (which is very weird to me!) instead of creating an img tag.

Along those lines, are there properties panels that self populate anywhere? For example, once I have an image tag I'm not finding a place to have the height and width of the image added/calculated for me.

Yes, I know this isn't Studio, but it's not functionality that I expected to be missing!

Thanks,

Michelle

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