advcomputer
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| Posted: 09/15/2002, 7:43 PM |
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Hello all,
Before I plunk down my hard earned money of on CodeCharge or CodeCharge Studio, I have several questions that I hope can be answered. Before I ask my questions, just a litle background. I'm very proficient in ColdFusion and Tango and to some extent .ASP.
My daily developement tools are Dreamweaver Ultradev and Coldfusion Studio. My database back-ends are Access, SQL 7 or Oracle 8i. Now that that is out of the way my questions are as follows;
1: I see in CSS you can generate Coldfusion with or without templates. Could somebody please explain the diffeence between these options
2: What happens after a generic site is created and I now max look and feel changes via Dreamweaver (outside of css). Will any future changes in CSS cause me to lose my modification that I did in dreamwaever
3: Are their any "templates" to handle related database tables. As an example can I have the following: A customers information and on the same page a table pulling data (such as all of the customers orders) on the same page?
4: I don't see any way of modifying their builders. as an example what happens if I would to have the "search function" in the upper right instead of the upper left as normal, can I change that functionality in the code that that the builder or wizard uses?
Any help or advice would be appreciated,
--Jeff
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Nicole
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| Posted: 09/17/2002, 1:58 AM |
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Hello,
I’ll try to shed a light.
1. in brief the difference between templateless and template version is that in latter busyness logic(script) and presentation layer(html) are separated.
All html code is moved out to html files, that can be freely edited in FrontPage, DreamWeaver and so on, the only limitation is not to change {variables_in_braces} (later they will be substituted with values from database by scripts) and <!--html comments-->, these are used by script to distinguish between forms.
This let's designers do their own job with html files while developers do theirs.
This disadvantage of this is that template version works a slower than templateless one. If you don't need any special design and want speedy site you may use templateless version.
2. well, as was mentioned above you can edit .html files in external html editors or in built in CCS one. I’m not sure will the changes in future CCS versions affect on custom modifications made. The most probably the answer is no, because the projects built with older versions are compatible with newer ones. Just keep in mind the limitation from #1.
3. CCS builders let you create independent forms, i.e. if you need to establish relationship between forms you should do it by yourself. Please refer to the following thread that describes how to create master-detail forms: http://www.gotocode.com/disc_viewt.asp?mid=12644
4. CCS builders are the batch of .xml and .js files located at Components folder. You can try to edit them directly. CCS doesn’t provide the dialogs for editing wizards.
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