ColdFISH 3.0 Alpha Released

Posted At : December 30, 2009 7:09 PM | Posted By : Jason Delmore
Related Categories: ColdFusion

You may not know what ColdFISH is, but if you are running BlogCFC then you are using it, and chances are at the minimum that you've read a blog that does use it. Well, I've been doing some work on ColdFish due to several requests. This latest version includes:

  • XML based configuration - no need to get into the code to change a color or add a keyword
  • Keyword formatting for CFML, CFSCRIPT, ActionScript, and SQL!!!
  • The ability to tell the parser you are just looking for just SQL, CFScript, or ActionScript (it can't guess script based languages... it does figure out tag-based on its own)
  • Caching of formatted code blocks (once it's been parsed it will stay in memory until it hits the cache limit, cache size is configurable)
  • A toolbar that allows for viewing the code as plain text, copying it straight to the clipboard, or even sending just the block straight to a printer
  • A cleaner default look and feel

If you're interested in testing the alpha out you can check it out of the subversion repository at http://svn.riaforge.org/coldfish/. Feedback is very welcome!

If you just want to learn more about ColdFish, check out the project at http://coldfish.riaforge.org/

Have a great New Years! Jason

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Gary Funk's Gravatar In coldfishconfig.xml, changing the width in the style for the TOOLBAR to 99% helps the formatting. In IE 100% can cause scrollbars to come on.

Also, I'd like to see this validate under XHTML 1.1. I ahve made a few changs that reduce the number of errors, but there is still work to do.
# Posted By Gary Funk | 12/30/09 8:24 PM
Brad Wood's Gravatar Thanks for your work on this Jason. I look forward to playing with the new SQL formatting. Hopefully Ray will get this bundled with a new version of BlogCFC soon too.
# Posted By Brad Wood | 12/31/09 12:44 AM
Gary Funk's Gravatar @Brad: It is if you get the newest code from the svn. It has some great new features.

ColdFish is utterly fantistic. It's pure magic.
# Posted By Gary Funk | 12/31/09 9:16 PM
Jason Delmore's Gravatar I think it's in pretty good shape now, let's call it 3.0 RC1. :) I have checked in the latest with some really nice fixes. Thanks Gary for the feedback on the XHTML compliance! It's that kind of additional perspective and participation that helps make open source projects better. If anyone sees any other issues, please let me know. Otherwise I will update the documentation and update the zip on RIAForge tomorrow.

Cheers! Jason
# Posted By Jason Delmore | 1/6/10 12:45 AM
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