Introducing cfExt

I received a lot of positive feedback from my cf_window custom tag so I decided to take it one step further. First off here are the details on the project.

cfExt is a ColdFusion wrapper class to the Ext JavaScript Library. The release of ColdFusion 8 brought many new exciting Ajax features to the language. These features were implementations of the ExtJS 1.1 library. While many of these features are wonderful they are limited to those running ColdFusion 8 and unfortunately we are just not all there yet. This project takes advantage of the new features in the Ext 2.0 library and therefore is not limited to users running previous versions of ColdFusion. I believe that users of 8 and below will find these tags very useful.

If you are very good with JavaScript and have a working knowledge of the Ext library you may not find this project useful but I believe the rest of us will! The project was created with a purpose of allowing ColdFusion developers an easy way to leverage the Ext JavaScript framework. While the framework has some amazing features I found that many developers have a tough time getting started with ext. It was this problem that created the cfext project and so far it has been a lot of fun working on it.

The library will include the Window stuff that I have already worked on as well as adding support for the message box and Accordion layouts. The message box and accordion still needs documentation but the examples should give you an idea. There are other items in the download but just ignore them for now. This is still very much alpha so bear with me until I can get this project on the right course. Here is more information from the documentation page.

Download

To download the latest cfExt source code you can visit the project page on RIAForge using the link below. I try and keep the zip file updated as much as possible but if you need the latest and greatest code I have subversion enabled for the project and usually make commits every night that I work on it.

Download cfExt

The project page on RIAForge has a place for tracking issues as well as a forums feature. If you need any help please submit an issue there or you can always email using the contact project feature or checking out the contact page of my website.

If you want to reward me for my hard work you could do 1 of two things. If you have recently won the lottery please hand over half of it to me. For the rest a visit to my wishlist would be great! Outside of that a quick email telling me you enjoy the project and any other comments help. A pat on the back usually keeps me motivated!

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