I work quite a lot with JQueryUI 1.8 lately, so time has come to create a new CB plugin. The JQueryUI Plugin handles (core)JS dependencies and CSS links for you, so no CFHTMLHEADs in your views anymore to include the proper files. You can just write:

...or to enable multiple widgets at once: What about effects and adding different ones along your code? Well, you can keep adding them and the plugin handles the boring stuff for you. Adding interactions is rather simple as well. The following enables 'droppable and sortable' and includes the proper core JS files for you. What if you only need one specific core file only? If you want to know which effects/widgets are supported by the plugin, you could use CFDUMP e.g. Ok, we're almost done. What if you want to add your own CSS file which overrides style definitions from the core CSS? ...which is exactly the same as: As you noticed in the code above, we used an attribute 'renderPosition'. this attribute gives you control over the order how the CSS links are rendered. Having control over the rendering order is rather important for JS files (Thanks bro Tom de Man for notifying......or 'G. Ramsey' for the insiders). So let's say you have a couple of JS files which you're adding along your code and you want the last JS file being rendered as first. Ok, all features discussed. Still interested?...let's set everything up.

• Grab the JQueryUI plugin from RIAForge and place it into your plugin folder
• Download jqueryui 1.8.1, unzip it into your includes folder (See screenshot below)
  
  
• Add the following lines to your coldbox config file
  <!-- Path to jQueryUI library, e.g. includes/jqueryui -->
  <setting name="JQueryUIPlugin.baseRelativePath" value="includes/jQueryUI" />
  <!--
  <Setting name="JQueryUIPlugin.cssRelativePath" value="includes/jQueryUI/themes/ui-lightness" />
  <Setting name="JQueryUIPlugin.jsRelativePath" value="includes/jQueryUI/ui/minified" />
  <Setting name="JQueryUIPlugin.jsFileNameSuffix" value=".min" />
  -->
  
• Place this code somewhere in your layout file. This renders the output of the plugin.
  <cfoutput>#getPlugin("JQueryUI",true).render()#</cfoutput>
  

Enjoy!

THE ColdBox Book has been released and is available for purchase. And YES it will be in ALL online book retails in 4-8 weeks.

Thanks Luis for putting this masterpiece together!!

Check out the ColdBox blog post for details.

Tom de Manincor, my colleague and ColdBox Team Member, will give a 101+ ColdBox course in our office in Amsterdam.

If you want to know the ins,outs and best practices of ColdBox, you should definitely attend Europe's first official ColdBox Course.

....and you finally have a good excuse to visit Amsterdam :-)

 Please check out Tom's blog for the ColdBox Course details

UPDATE

Well, it's NOT the first CB course in Europe, Luis gave one at CFUG in Munich last year.

...thanks Chris for notifying!

 

I ran into 'another' strange IE-browser behavior yesterday. It took me an hour of two to solve this iframe-height-problem.

If you call this.document.body.scrollHeight in an iframe twice, the first value is wrong, but the second value is okay.

Look at the example below:

I just released version 1.0 of OFC-CFC on Google Code.

OFC-CFC is a Coldfusion CFC Library which produces JSON-data for Open Flash Chart version 2.0

The real power of Open Flash Chart is, you can update charts using JSON-data. Which means. update your charts using e.g. JQuery or Spry, without reloading a page.

So you can create charts like:

Please let me know if you have any questions or remarks.

In case you missed it, check out http://colddoc.riaforge.org/

Another piece of magic by Mark Mandel. It creates docs of your cfcs in JavaDoc-style and most important, it shows inherited methods too!

ColdBox Training Seminar will be held in Ontario, California on March 14-15th, 2009.

It is a 2-day hands on intense training on our flagship course: CBOX-101.

Check our press release

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Thanks!

I've created a ColdBox plugin which makes use of JS Calendar of Dynarch.

 

 

LIVE SAMPLE (requested by Sana):

JS Calendar Sample

Usage:

Downloads:

JS Calendar (unzip and place it in your includes directory. It should look like this: {YOURAPP}/includes/jscalendar/..)

ColdBox Plugin (without JS Calendar!)

I've updated the ColdBox Spry Plugin to version 2.0

New implementations due many user requests:

• TextField Validation
• TextArea Validation
• Radio Validation
• Checkbox Validation
• Select Validation
• Password Validation
• Confirm Validation

I also added effect examples to the Spry live sample application.

Download Spry Plugin + Sample App