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Explanation of ColdFusion Studio features. Also refer to toolbars, data entry wizard, editing, debugging, resources, Ron Kurtus, School for Champions. Copyright © Restrictions
ColdFusion Studio Features
by Ron Kurtus (revised 15 March 2001)
ColdFusion Studio has a number of special features that are worth while knowing about. They can be classified as the Main Toolbar, Quick Bar, and Data Entry Wizard.
Questions you may have on this process are:
- What does the Main Toolbar consist of?
- What is the Quick Bar?
- How is the Data Entry Wizard used?
This lesson will answer those questions. There is a mini-quiz near the end of the lesson.
Main toolbar
The main toolbar consists of the standard, view, edit, and tools sub-toolbars. There is also a debug toolbar.
Standard
The standard toolbar includes the most basic types of actions you can take on a file, such as opening and saving. An interesting feature is extended find and replace, which allows you to search all files in a folder and subfolders for strings of HTML and CFML text.
View
The view toolbar enables you to turn on or off different panes on the screen, such as resource pane, result pane, and quick bar.
Edit
The edit toolbar contains editing icons, as well as the repeat last tag and code sweeper icons. The code sweeper allows you to select how you want to clean up the formatting of your HTML and CFML.
Tools
The tools toolbar allows you to change colors, verify links, check spelling and edit cascading style sheets.
Debugging
Finally, there is a debug toolbar, allowing you to walk through your code, one line at a time.
Quick bar
The quick bar allows quick coding in HTML or CFML. The HTML toolbars provide quick access to various HTML tags. There are three CFML toolbars: basic, advanced and forms.
Panes
There are two panes or sub-windows that act as work spaces.
Editor
The editor pane allows you to enter HTML and CFML code. You can also view tag attributes, complete and validate tags. The editor pane has an edit, browse and design view.
Resource
The resource pane includes special tabs to access what you want. You can access your files, data, projects, or site through the tabs. There is also a snippets tag, where you can create and use snippets of code that are often used. There is also help tag and a tag inspector and editor.
Data entry wizard
The Studio Data Entry Wizard will guide you through the creation of a data-entry form and action page. From File > New, select the CFML tab and select Data Entry Wizard. You can select the data source, table, and fields, and the Wizard will create an entry form, along with the processing and confirmation page.
Summary
Studio has toolbars, panes and a data entry wizard to help the development process.
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Resources
The following resources provide information on this subject.
Websites
Books
Mini-quiz to check your understanding
1. What does the Debugging Toolbar do?
2. What does the Quick Bar do?
3. What must you do if you don't use the Data Entry Wizard?
If you got all three correct, you are on your way to becoming a Champion in ColdFusion Development. If you had problems, you had better look over the material again.
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