Adobe ColdFusion Builder by default treats CFML file content as UTF-8 encoded. So when you look at properties of cfm file and it will show encoding as default UTF-8 (determined by content).
This post tells you how to configure Adobe ColdFusion builder to support different file encoding. This is useful when you have CFML files which have encoding other than UTF-8.
So here are the steps -
1) Navigate to preferences->General->Content types page
2) On this page expand Text node and select CFML source file.
3) Once selected, default encoding text field will show “UTF-8″ as default encoding for CFML content.
4) Change this to any desired encoding type and click update button next to this field.
5) Click OK.
6) Reopen file in editor.
Following is screen shot of how to change this preference setting-
Now file properties will show files encoding as set by user, and file content will be shown properly in editor based on set encoding.
Here are few useful editor shortcuts when using ColdFusion Builder
- Toggle between source and preview tabs
Press Ctrl+Page Down to navigate to next tab
(eg. from source to preview)
Press Ctrl+Page up to navigate to previous tab
(eg. from preview to source)
- To navigate between all open documents in editor
Press Ctrl+F6. Keep Keys pressed and select any open file with
arrow keys or using mouse.
Or alternatively Press Ctrl+E to get drop down list of open files
to select from. If this list is too big, you can just type first
few letters of file name and the list will get filtered automatically.
- To quick select any currently open View
Press Ctrl + F7. Keep keys pressed and select available views through
arrow keys or using mouse.
Press Ctrl+O to get quick outline view for cuttently open document.
At any time you want to change these default keys, you can do this via Preferences->General->Keys preference page.
Display of whtiespace characters in ColdFusion Builder can be easily switched on/off by hitting “Ctrl+.”(Control and dot).Below screenshow shows cfm file opend in editors with whitespace characters being displayed.
Also which characters are displayed in place of whitespace characters can be customized via Preferences->HTML->Editors page. Assign any desired characters in corresponding fields inside whitespace markers group.
Check below screenshot
Editor Profiles (Found under Preferences->ColdFusion->Editor Profiles) are meant to group all editor preferences under one set and save them all for future use.This allows users to create different profiles for different editor preferences and allows one click applying of all your favorite editor preference settings.
So what you can do is set individual editor preferences like colorization, keyboard shortcuts and code assist preferences etc. for a particular style of coding/editor use. Now once done, navigate to “Editor Profiles” preferences page and save them all as a set by creating a new profile. This newly created profile will save current values of all editor preferences. Following editor preferences are saved as profiles
1) ColdFusion->Editor Profiles-> Editor
2) Code Assist
3) Colors
4) Keys
5) Outline
6) Syntax checking
7) Typing
You can make any changes to editor preferences and whenever you want all your favorite settings back, all you have to do is, open editor profiles, select your previously saved profile and hit apply. This will set all editor preferences to values they had when you created this new profile. This can be very useful when you want to have different editor preferences for different kind of development needs.
ColdFusion Builder has three profiles created by default. They are
a) Default - sets all editor preferences to ColdFusion Builder defaults
b) Dreamweaver - sets all editor preferences similar to Dreamweaver (as applicable)
c) CFEclipse- sets all editor preferences similar to CFEclipse (as applicable)
An easy way to access editor preferences is through editor’s context menu, i.e. just right click on editor while editing any CFM CFC files, and select “preferences” menu option it will take you to CFML Editor’s preferences.
This also works for any editor in general, so for eg. if you are editing HTML files, “preferences” option in editor’s context menu will take you to HTMl Editor Preferences.
So if you change preferences quite often, this might be useful to you, especially if you are new to eclipse platform and find it difficult to access editor preferences through windows menu (Windows->Preferences-> …).
