Favorite HS+/CFS Tools

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I'm temporarily putting HS+ aside as I test DWMX2004, but I thought I'd share a few of my favorite tools for HS+/CFS:

SyncDir - This is a wonderful little script. Let's say you have a file open. By using this script, you can make the folder dialog quickly change to the location of the file. Written by Nick Bradbury.

Convert Special Characters - Allows you to convert < to &lt;. The page also describes writing your own scripts.

UDF Browse - This tool lets you browse CFLib, and even insert UDF code, without having to open your browser.

Finally, a small script I wrote myself that just inserts the date. This is a bit less useful now that HS+ 5.5 supports meta values in snippets, but I still use it to manually mark the Last Updated field of a file.

For a list of additional scripts, check out http://scripts.hsguide.com/.

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Archived Comments

Comment 1 by Mark W. Breneman posted on 9/25/2003 at 6:17 PM

Holy cow!

Why didn’t someone tell me this was possible before? ? I don’t know how I missed that my beloved Cold fusion Studio was able to be extended this way. I took Raymond Camden's “now” script and made it into the super comment maker I have always wanted CFS to do.

It now outputs:
<!--- Comment by your name here on 9/25/2003: --->

The one question I have is why do I have to add 1 to the month to get it to be correct? Is it my PC?

function Main() {
var date;
var str;
var app;
var doc;

date = new Date();
str = "<!--- Comment by Me on " + (date.getMonth()+1) + "/" + date.getDate() + "/" + date.getYear() + ": --->";
app = Application;
// app.MessageBox(str,'Current Date',0);
doc = app.ActiveDocument;
doc.InsertText(str, true);
}

Comment 2 by Raymond Camden posted on 9/25/2003 at 7:56 PM

Arrays start with 0, so if the month is 0, it's the same as the 1st month, which is January.

Comment 3 by ErikG posted on 9/27/2003 at 9:55 AM

DWMX is *really* a bad code editor. I know a lot of people complain about it's speed, and I have some issues with that, but mainly its just the lack of general features that you take for granted. I posted <a href="http://mx.blogs.com/blog/20...">my beef</a> already. I still open DWMX2004 every so often (I have a week or so left in my trial) just to get the CFMX tag support.

I wish Macromedia would let you trial HS+. Does it support CFMX 6.1 tags the same as DWMX2004?

And thanks for CFS tools, I was clueless about these as well. I want to try and get something to remove the characters that MS Word adds for ... and -- and begining and end "; I get text sent to me all the time with these items.

Completely off topic: Looking forward to taking your class at MAX this year, I also attended your Security session last year in FL.

Comment 4 by Raymond Camden posted on 10/7/2003 at 3:44 PM

Sorry for the delay in responding. I'm finding DW to be an ok editor. I'm kinda liking it. Not sure if I'll make the switch though. HS+ does support the 6.1 tags/functions.

Glad you enjoyed my security session. At MAX, be sure to come up and say (and remind me who you are, I'm horrible with names. ;)

Comment 5 by Jeff Wilkinson posted on 12/2/2003 at 11:52 PM

ErikG, macromedia does have trial downloads of HomeSite, and it does support CFMX tags, though it may be a separate download to add them... (don't recall at the moment)

Comment 6 by Jeff Wilkinson posted on 1/16/2004 at 9:05 PM

BTW, there are more HS/CFS scripts and extensions at:
http://www.wilk4.com/asp4hs/