AsFusion

Why should a ColdFusion Developer care about Flex 2.0

In my previous post, I made the comment that we'll be doing more Flex 2.0 stuff and less cfforms. It seems that it was a shock for some people. I was going to respond in a comment there, but I realized that it was better to make a new post on that.

Ok, don't panic, guys :) we will be making a smooth transition from cfform to Flex. Flex will ship next summer so we have a lot of time. Also, we are thinking about opening a cfform and Flex forum here at asfusion because we can not handle the amount of email that we get everyday and I believe that the forum will help making the communication better (Quick poll here: what do you think about that?)

Using global CSS in your cfform

The other day someone asked in the comments about a way to use CSS classes instead of adding inline styles in each control. One of the problems is that using inline code consume a lot of Kb and it's good to save size as much as possible because a form only allows the use of 32Kb (or 64Kb depending on who you ask :)). Right now, it is not possible to include an external CSS file with all our styles. I wish ( and it's on top of my list) that the next update will allow it :)

For now, and because we have the onLoad event in the CF Updater 7.01 we can set up some global styles when the form loads and save some Kb to spend in other places.

More quick bindings

Or "Why I love functions".

In my previous post, Quick grid bindings, I showed how to use a custom function, applyFilter, that I had described earlier.

Some readers asked how to change the first grid to a tree, then to a dropdown. Just because I like to be ahead of things, and to show how easy is to reuse a function once you have created it, I threw in a repeater with radio buttons as well.