Ever wanted to see the flex behind your flash forms (say that 10 times fast!) ? I inadvertently learned of a great little trick over at Paul Robertson’s Blog to do just that. It’s actually quite simple. After building your flash form, simply dump the form variable to the page. Example:
I saw a function today that I had actually never seen before, and it would have helped me save a few lines of code in many CF projects. The function is ValueList. ValueList takes a Query column as it’s first parameter, and a delimiter as an optional second parameter, and returns a list of the values from the query.
I learned something great today and I thought I’d share it with everyone. It turns out that you can use “BIND=” for more than just including the bind when you’re binding a CFFORM flash item to something else. In the past, I’ve used BIND like so:
The following code will create an array of scheduled tasks by using cf.ServiceFactory:
1 2 3 4 | <cfobject name="cfFactory" type="java" action="create" class="coldfusion.server.ServiceFactory"> <cfset arrServices = cfFactory.cronService.listall()> <cfdump var="#arrServices#"> </cfdump></cfset></cfobject> |
I’ve been using this code to force uppercase letters in a ColdFusion Flash input box:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | <cfsavecontent variable="CheckText"> if (frmSample.txtSample != frmSample.txtSample.toUpperCase()) { txtSample.text = frmSample.txtSample.toUpperCase(); } </cfsavecontent> <a href="http://www.technicallychris.com/2006/07/06/flash-form-force-upper-case-text/#more-72" class="more-link">Read more...</a> |
Although I’m writing this to apply to your submit buton, you can use it with just about any controls in a CFFORMGROUP. I use it on my Flash Forms to move the submit button to the right side of the screen, which often looks nice when under a PANEL or TABNAVIGATOR. The code is quite simple: