CFEclipse 1.3.1 Released

Posted At : March 5, 2007 7:13 AM | Posted By : Mark Drew
Related Categories: coldfusion, cfeclipse

About three days late, from my milestones, but I finally released CFEclipse 1.3.1, you can get this from the usual update site (instructions available here). I have put loads of effort into this and there is more to come, so if your bug hasn't been covered in this release, don't worry, I shall get to it soon!

One of the major bits of work has been replacing the FTP library we were using and converting all the functionality to use Apache VFS, which should hopefully stop many errors that we had before.

Also, as part of this "release" I have put previous versions on the update site (all the way back to CFEclipse 1.2.1) for those people suffering from some issues (hey, I hoped that I had fixed them, but you never know!)

When I released 1.3.0, many people bemoaned the fact that there were no release notes, well, now thanks to Trac, and the fact that I have been diligently managing the bugs with it, I can provide you with release notes! Hurrah!

Enjoy!

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CFEclipse 1.3.1 Release Notes

The CFEclipse Project is proud to present the latest release of the CFEclipse IDE.

A lot of effort has gone into the project over the last few months and more releases will be happening over the next few months.

We hope you find the following enhancements an fixes useful.

Mark Drew
CFEclipse Project

You can view more detail on each of these tickets on the CFEclipse Trac site

Fatal crash for CFSCRIPT has now been fixed, also installation on Vista should not throw a security error

  • 172 Typing makes CFEclipse 1.3 Beta to crash - defect
  • 190 Preprocess.bat annoys Vista users - defect
Completely re-built File Explorer, now supports Local, FTP and SFTP connections. This has been a massive undertaking as we have changed the core libraries to make use of Apache's Virtual File System, which means in the future we can add other file systems.
  • 110 FTP plugin doesn't handle errors well - defect
  • 168 File Explorer - FTP doesn't work - defect
  • 166 File Explorer has no functionality - enhancement
  • 230 Remote File Sorting in the File Explorer - enhancement
  • 236 Add SFTP support - enhancement

The Dictionary view now handles multiple CF Versions and provides more information about tags. It changes the version to suit the currently focused file.

  • 191 Dictionary view doesn't reflect the project's set dictionary - enhancement
  • 238 Dictionary View add information about the tag and the attribute - enhancement

Interface improvements

  • 122 Absolute File Locations Inconsistent in Status Bar - defect
  • 64 Add file path to the status line - enhancement
  • 206 Tag insight output for createObject incorrect - defect
  • 66 CFC Methods View - Non Case Sensitive - enhancement
  • 201 Lose "cffunction name:" from cfcomponent in the outline - enhancement
  • 235 Different icons for cftags and cffunctions compared to html - enhancement

Changes to shortcuts: the CFSCRIPT shortcut occluded a very useful "Find Resource" feature of Eclipse and the find matching tag occluded the maximize and minimize functions. These changes are as follows:

  • 205 Change the cfscript shortcut as it occludes the find resource shortcut - defect [Changed to Ctrl + Alt + R]
  • 229 Conflicting CTRL+M Keyboard shortcut - defect [Changed to Ctrl + Shift + N ]

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Big Mad Kev's Gravatar Well Done pal!
# Posted By Big Mad Kev | 3/5/07 10:18 AM
Matt's Gravatar Mark I just switched from a PC to a MacBook Pro and i am having some issues with cfeclipse and eclipse crashing for no reason I am using 3.2. My question is what version of eclipse should I be using?
# Posted By Matt | 3/5/07 2:53 PM
Derek P.'s Gravatar Fantastic mate! Great work as usual!
# Posted By Derek P. | 3/5/07 2:58 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar I just upgraded to Eclipse 3.2.2 after using Eclipse 3.2.1 since June (well Eclipse 3.2 at any rate)

I dont know what could be causing it, but look in your error log (type this in Terminal: open <insert workspace locaion here>/.metadata/.log)

And see if you get anything blatant.
# Posted By Mark Drew | 3/5/07 3:03 PM
Matt's Gravatar Sorry I am very new to the Mac world I get this message Permission denied is the a way to change the file permissions
# Posted By Matt | 3/5/07 3:22 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar yes! click Apple + i on the file in question and look at the permissions below.

MD
# Posted By Mark Drew | 3/5/07 3:31 PM
kenton's Gravatar Ohh cfscript bug fixed, AND a pretty new workspace icon! This has made my day.

Thanks Mark!
# Posted By kenton | 3/5/07 6:54 PM
david sirr's Gravatar Mark, you are a god amongst cfmen :) thank goodness that cfscript bug is fixed!!
# Posted By david sirr | 3/5/07 10:20 PM
darius's Gravatar Thank you Mark for all the work.

I just upgraded to the new 1.3.1 from 1.3 on top of eclipse 3.1.1

Restarted eclipse and when I click on the file explorer view it nothing happens, the view does not open and stays on the previews view in that area of the screen. I opened the default cfeclipse profile, added file explorer view and it does not add at all. It acts as if I clicked cancel in the show view window. Closed eclipse opened with -clean and no change. Tried then 1.3.1.1 still does not work.

Any ideas?

Thank you
Darius
# Posted By darius | 3/6/07 12:02 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar Yep, you are using 3.1.1 a version of eclipse that smells of fish... :)

I havent done the backwards compatability tests yet... not sure if I will... since its very easy to upgrade!
# Posted By Mark Drew | 3/6/07 12:07 PM
darius's Gravatar update, just used the configuration manager to switch back to 1.3 and file explorer works fine, switch back to 1.3.1.1 and it does not.
# Posted By darius | 3/6/07 12:08 PM
darius's Gravatar Thank you for the reply, I needed to use the older version of eclipse do to compatibility issue with MyEclipse plugin. I will need to check if there is an update that will run on the newer eclipse.
# Posted By darius | 3/6/07 12:11 PM
Mark Drew's Gravatar I run myEclipse on 3.2 so that shouldn't be a problem

MD
# Posted By Mark Drew | 3/6/07 12:11 PM
darius's Gravatar its upgrade time then :) thanks!
# Posted By darius | 3/6/07 3:05 PM