Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog: Sneak preview of CFLib via Bolt

Sneak preview of CFLib via Bolt

I uploaded this to RIAForge this weekend, but for folks who are not yet on the pre-release, I thought I'd share a few screens from my CFLib Bolt Extension. I've given it the cool name of: CFLibExtension. Yes, my imagination was at an all time low. You can download the bits from the RIAForge project, and if you did have Bolt installed, here is how it would work.

First, right click on a file, and click into the CFLib menu:

This brings up a list of categories. This list is cached to help improve performance.

Now you can browse UDFs in the category, in pages of 10 UDFs each. This is also cached. The first hit will be a bit slow, but after that it will scream.

I should point out - the design here is pure HTML, and was written very quickly. The ugliness is all Ray, not Bolt.

After you select the UDF, you can either copy the code from the textarea, or click Download.

If you choose to download, it will automatically be placed within the file you right clicked on.

Seem cool?

This entry was posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 8:57 PM. It was filed in the following categories: Development, ColdFusion. It has been viewed 1,929 times and has 14 comments.

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Comment 1 written by Michael Santoroski on 15 June 2009, at 9:41 PM

Looks cool. When did you say that Bolt is going into public beta?
Comment 2 written by Raymond Camden on 15 June 2009, at 9:42 PM

It already is - but you have to have a Golden Ticket.
Comment 3 written by Jason on 15 June 2009, at 9:44 PM

Craps. How about a quick bolt rundown, first impressions, etc.
Comment 4 written by Michael Santoroski on 15 June 2009, at 9:44 PM

I'll start buying lots of Adobe Chocolate Bars!
Comment 5 written by Raymond Camden on 15 June 2009, at 9:49 PM

The first rule of NDA is that you don't speak about NDA. ;)

Seriously - I can't say anything yet. But um, I wouldn't bash it. Not at all. I'd do the opposite. I'll stop now.
Comment 6 written by Torgo on 15 June 2009, at 10:18 PM

Do you know if they're going to be adding more people to the pre-release? I've been in the Centaur one for months, but haven't heard anything about Bolt yet.
Comment 7 written by Raymond Camden on 15 June 2009, at 10:20 PM

Repeat after me. "Ray can't say squat."

Sorry - I should have been clear on that. I have no idea what Adobe plans.
Comment 8 written by Sean Coyne on 16 June 2009, at 5:48 AM

@ray can you add a search feature? maybe w/ a little ajax autocomplete?
Comment 9 written by Raymond Camden on 16 June 2009, at 8:05 AM

I haven't yet tested Ajax w/n the confines of Bolt. Of course, it need not be Ajax (search doesn't, autocomplete would). It's on my list.
Comment 10 written by Lola LB on 16 June 2009, at 8:44 AM

Wow . . . looks great! This will make developing so much more easier.
Comment 11 written by inj on 16 June 2009, at 3:44 PM

Hi, Ray!
I just installed this extension, but was unable to use it - got an error message: "Error occurred while parsing response from handler "/handlers/selectcategory.cfm".
What am I doing wrong?
Comment 12 written by Raymond Camden on 16 June 2009, at 3:47 PM

Please try the version I just posted. I had forgotten to disable CF debugging, and it was using the same app space as the RIAForge extension.
Comment 13 written by inj on 16 June 2009, at 3:53 PM

Ok, now it works fine!
Thank you.
Comment 14 written by Raymond Camden on 16 June 2009, at 3:55 PM

Yeah, once we can speak a bit more openly about Bolt and extensions, I'm sure myself (and others) will be posting tips,guides,etc to working with them.

If you get my RIAForge extension, it does NOT have this fix. So be sure to copy the line from onRequestStart.