Building Windows Apps with HTML and CFML

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Building Windows Appswith HTML and CFML

• By Steve Nelson
• SecretAgents.com

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Overview

• Sash Overview
• SashScript Overview
• Building a Sash Application

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Browser vs. Windows

• Browsers Universal
• Windows Flexibility Control

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Sash Weblications

• Integrate with the Windows Desktop
• Use HTML for the user interface
• Use SashScript to make them dynamic

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Sash Locations

• Standard Windows Application
• Screen Saver
• Desktop Toolbar
• Desktop Bands
• Windows Explorer Bars
• Windows Find

• Internet Explorer Applications
• Shell Namespace
• Control Panel Components
• Property Sheets

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Standard Windows Application

• Build SDI or MDI Applications
• Easily control menus
• Use HTML for display

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Screen Saver

• Create interactive screen savers
• Connect your screen saver to a ColdFusion server!

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Desktop Toolbar

• Just like the Start Menu
• Can be docked in different areas

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Desktop Bands

• Useful for applications that do not require a lot
  of screen real estate

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Windows Explorer Bars

• Interact with the Windows Explorer or IE
• Can be made visible or hidden
• Similar to the Favorites bar

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Windows Find

• Use the Search button in the Start menu to open
  a Sash application

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Sash Weblication Manager

• Allows for easy install/unistall
• Automatic updates
• Adjust security settings for each Weblication

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Sash WDE

• Sash Development Environment
• Project Based
• Manages both development and publishing

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Setting up a Sash Project

• Sash is Project Based
• Similar to a project in CF Studio
• Manages Actions and Files

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Sash Actions

• Implement the behavior of a Weblication
• Weblications have one or more Actions
• Each Action is assigned a Location

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Sash Location

• Where the Weblication runs
• Determines what code is available
• Examples Desktop Toolbar, Explorer Extension,
  Screen Saver

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Introduction to SashScript

• Superset of Javascript
• Hundreds of additional methods, properties and
  events
• Called with the Tag

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Connecting to a CF Server

• Connecting Sash to a CF server is fairly simple.

• var categorylistnew Sash.Core.Net.URLConnection()
  
• categorylist.Url"http//www.secretagents.com/inde
  x.cfm
• categorylist.Execute()

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Displaying the Output

• Display the output in HTML
• Or.
• Download a WDDX packet and work with the data in
  Sash!

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The Disconnected App

• Sash allows you to build sophisticated
  applications, disconnected from the internet
• See what you can build!

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Other Resources

• http//sash.alphaworks.ibm.com/
• http//Learn.SecretAgents.com/

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Questions?

• Steve Nelson
• m_at_secretagents.com