Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / November 2007

I'm trying to use Barbecue Barcode and I have placed the library file in
"{ColdFusionRoot}\runtime\lib" and I have restarted the service, but it still
gives me this error " Class not found: net.sourceforge.barbecue.BarcodeFactory"
when I try and view an example.  I was wondering ...

I would like to integrate the following in a CF-page:
http://code.google.com/p/google-api-translate-java/
The google-api-translate-java.jar file is already integrated in the CF-Server
library. What's next?

Script worked fine in CFMX 7, but non-functional in CF 8 -- Base64 data is
returned from toBinary() in same format as received...  but verified as
correct. When accessed from CFMX 7, it decodes properly.
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="inline;

I have a form in flash format. On the page load, I need to disabled a datefield
input but at the same to get it populated. The problem is that the datefield
input is always empty.
When I delete the "disabled" property..it is working.

I've found a lot of pages dealing with serverside validation oder clientside
validation in cfinput fields,
but Im looking for a clientside validation in a grid.
Any hints oder links for me?

I have the following code where I let users upload a picture and I create a
thumbnail and if the picture they upload is too big, I resize a second larger
picture to fit in the desired dimensions.  In the following code, for some
reason, the thumbnail gets created, but the second ...

I need to write a SP for a search query from this ColdFusion code.  I am not
sure how to transform the coldfusion if statements in TSQL to where it can
work.  Any help would be appeciated.
select f.*, l.*, m.*

I have a textarea in my form and I'm trying to stop users from entering long
lines of text with no spaces. If they do, it expands my table off the page. I
havent found away to make the line break within the table. I need some server
side technique for assuring that a user uses ...

I need to be able to have users leave the Time_Spent and Notes forms empty or
with info.  With the following code, it will populate the DB only if those two
fields are filled out.  I need them to also be able to pass empty text but it
will not.  Please help.

Guys , its simple but i dont know why its not working
<cfset d = "/CTEPMS/calendar.cfm">
i want to get the lenght of "/CTEPMS/"
I tried doing

When trying to connect to an RMI Service from within a Java Servlet running on
a Cold Fusion 8 server, our application is throwing an exception.  The code is
unchanged from what ran successfully on Cold Fusion 7.  The interface that
defines the RMI Service is:

OK, so I don't even know if what I am trying to do is possible, but here goes...
I have one table, practiceArea, that is basically a lookup table, with the
fields id, areaName, and anchor.
That table is relational to a larger table, mentors, which pulls the id number

I'm working with the new cf8 cflayout tag to create a tab-based system. I also
use <cfinput type="datefield" to get the nice ajax date selector.  My problem
is whenever I click on the date image it will open up the mini calendar and my
tabs (that contain the cfinput) will ...

We recently went with an upgrade from  Version: 7,0,0,91690 to Version:
8,0,0,176276 on our dev box!
We use a proprietary Java CFX solution which uses JCLASS API's to provide
CHarting to all our applications. However, after we did our upgrade, accessing

I would like to create an error handling system in our application. but I just
cant get a simple prototype to work as it should.
lets say, I want to handle two kinds of errors by throwing exceptions. in case
of the sendToDev exception I want an email to be sent to the developers. ...