ColdFusion 7 Support

[Isaac Dealey]

Okay I'd like to apologize for the time it took to get this done.

After spending way too long trying to figure out how to get CF7 set up
the way I wanted on my notebook I finally gave up and got it set up in a
way that I don't like (built-in web server). It turns out the only way
to install it on Apache anymore requires that you download and use a
version of the JVM that's been end-of-lifed. Not that it's such a big
deal, but I'd already been trying to get it set up for many many hours
at that point. And I was so frustrated that I nearly posted a blog entry
declaring no more official support for CF7.

After taking a break and installing CF7 with the built in web server
however I was able to resolve the couple of remaining CF7 issues that
had been mentioned to me before. One was in the tree widgets and another
was in the tabset widget. Neither of them were particularly difficult to
fix, although I was surprised that the tabset worked on CF8. I don't
think it should have... Regardless the issue is resolved.

In the process of resolving issues with the tree widgets I also reworked
them in general so that they now use no img tags and instead rely solely
on CSS for background images. This should make them easier to skin or
style and has also improved their performance. I got about 10%
improvement on the navigation frame of the documentation, which has some
other things going on, so I'd say somewhere in the neighborhood of
15-20% improvement on just the trees by themselves. It did require
modification to just one of the files in the Members onTap plugin (a
function in the xhtml library for displaying an input tree for security
permissions).

And of course I've just uploaded a new build of both the framework core
and the Members onTap plugin for today.

And am now getting back to work on the FireLadder scaffolding tool.

I'm also still interested in more (or any) feedback on the notion of
adding an "anonymous usage statistics" feature to the framework core to
help us better manage its ongoing development.

You can read more about both of these on the Roadmap page of the
framework wiki here: http://ontap.wikispaces.com/Roadmap

Thanks!

--
[ ike ] founder - onTap framework

phone: 781.769.0723

http://on.tapogee.com

[Gerald Guido]

>> Okay I'd like to apologize for the time it took to get this done.

I was just going to say... "Ike has been so lazy lately". ;)

Have you looked at XAMPP? http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

I don't know that crazy ass requirements you have, but it might be worth a look.

~G~

--
"We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more."

—Ernest O. Lawrence

[Isaac Dealey]

> I was just going to say... "Ike has been so lazy lately". ;)
>
> Have you looked at XAMPP? http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
>
> I don't know that crazy ass requirements you have, but it might be worth a
> look.

Thanks Gerald. :)

Actually the issue with CF7 has to do specifically with the apache/JRun
connector, so I don't think XAMPP would help. Kinda silly if you think
about it, it's just one version incompatibility after another.
Macromedia released CF7 and all was well. Then the Apache foundation
released 2.2 and suddenly Macr's JRun connector was incompatible. So
they released a new connector with a technote, but the new connector is
a jar not an exe, so it needs Java to run... then Sun release the next
version of Java (1.5) and viola! the JRun connector is incompatible with
the latest version of Java. So you have to download Java 1.4.1 that was
available at the time the jar was released to run it... which has now
been "end-of-lifed". heh...

[Gerald Guido]

Ahhh... a good old fashioned dependency hell with a dead end to boot. Nice.

[Jeff]

OK, so SOMEONE has gotten this running in CFMX 7, right?
I'm back trying to migrate a project to onTap from FuseBox 5, but
can't get past the "unzip the files and browse to path\docs" stage.
I'm running CFMX 7.02, and get messages indicating that /inc, /cfc, /
lib, /plugins, etc. can't be found, must be mapped. So, at last I get
all that mapped.

Error Occurred While Processing Request
Element TAP.CORE_LIBRARIES is undefined in REQUEST.


The error occurred in libman.cfc: line 11
Called from libman.cfc: line 65
Called from C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\ontap\Application.cfc: line 96
Called from C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\ontap\Application.cfc: line 119
Called from C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\ontap\Application.cfc: line 151
Called from C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\ontap\Application.cfc: line 164
-1 : Unable to display error's location in a CFML template.

I've read installation notes, readme.txt and this forum.
Another clue, please!

[Isaac Dealey]

Hi Jeff, thanks for joining us. :)

Did you download the code from the riaforge site or did you grab the
copy off of the tapogee.com domain?

The one on the riaforge site is up to date - I don't think I've been
very diligent about keeping the copy on the tapogee domain updated
because I really was just putting it up for someone temporarily while
RIAForge was down a few weeks ago.

I was looking through the latest version of the framework and not
finding any reference to the core_libraries variable. I'm pretty certain
that variable has been subsequently factored out so it's no longer part
of the distribution.

Sorry for the confusion! :)

ike