flash cfgrid behavior

javasharp,
Thats not at all what Im after. I have the code written, its a web based email proggie... I just need the flash within it to behave a certain way.

-Rick

Sorry ,Just now upgraded to windows 2003, IIS is not working. I am trying to correct that. Thats why I gave you that link.

oh crap... just wrote this long answer and XP screwed me by opening a browser over it and I lost it... anywhoo... no there is not a way to do exactly what you want to do (you don't know how badly I wish there was) but there are some close possibilities:

First go here: http://www.cfform.com/flashforms/invoke.cfm?objectid=E2344892-4E22-1671-5496EEE941876E5E&method=full
(a great place for tips too if you haven't been to CFFORM before).

Next go here: http://www.asfusion.com/blog/category/cfform
(also a great place)

I wrote all this code, etc... in my last answer and I don't feel like doing it again unless you're still stumped.  Basically the solution I've used it to merely have a hidden section of the form (cfformgroup) which displays the message in your case (or detail info in mine).  It also has a set of buttons that are bound to links that pass the ID of the selected record from the grid (wont work if you have the grid set to edit) and in another case simply a dropdown menu and a button that is inactive until something is selected in the grid.  So the user in that case simply selects the row they wish to work with and then the action to perform from the cfselect at the bottom and then clicks the button... at which time they are taken to an action page which includes all code required for each of the menu functions (in a cfswitch).  So in an email app you could have either buttons that all submit but with different values like 'reply', 'forward', 'read', 'delete', etc... and then on the action page code which causes that page to process which ever action you wish.  you can even make the possibility of multiselect function as shown at the links above with checkboxes.  Unfortunately I can't figure out how you can have multiple links on a single row, and neither can any of the 'gurus' who are all infinitely smarter than I am.

Perhaps you will find the holy grail yourself, and if you happen to please let both myself and Macromedia/Adobe know because I've asked they repeatedly and no one can figure out how - they told me it can't at the moment.

onchange is not valid on a cfgrid.

Populate your cfgrid using the query attribute rather than the loop you currently have.  The reason for this is that the form will only have to compile once when using the query attribute, whereas the loop will cause the form to recompile everytime the form is accessed.

You can't get the popup to display as soon as someone clicks on the subject, but what you can do is add a "view" button to your form, which calls a function onClick that will display the message in a new window.  Its a pretty simple function.

function displayEmail(EmailID:Number):Void {
      getURL('displayEmail.cfm?EmailID='+EmailID,'EmailDisplayWindow');
}

To call it just use  onclick="displayEmail(Inbox.selectedItem.EmailID)" as a part of the "view" button on your form. eg.

<cfinput type = "button" name="ViewEmail" width="100" value = "View Email" onclick="displayEmail(Inbox.selectedItem.EmailID)">

You will need to do something similar with a delete button to go with your checkboxes.

OnChange is certainly totally valid on a CFGRID.  And you can read any of the values of the selected row when it's clicked too.
So when a user clicks a row this will trigger onChange, you then read any values (hidden or not) and use them to decide what to do next.

For example, I use onChange to activate an otherwise disabled button so that the user must click a row before they can click "continue".

                  <cfgrid name="myGrid" query="myData" sort="yes" appendkey="yes" selectmode="row" enabled="yes" visible="yes" format="flash" onchange="continueBtn.enabled=true">
                        <cfgridcolumn name="messageID" display="no">
                        <cfgridcolumn name="messageSubject" header="Name" display="yes" select="yes">
                        <cfgridcolumn name="recordTimeStamp" header="Time Stamp" display="yes" width="125" select="no">
                  </cfgrid>
                        <cfinput type="submit" name="continueBtn" value="Continue >>>" width="270" height="40" enabled="false">

For more complex usage, you can write a function earlier in the page and then trigger that function using the onChange event in the cfGrid.

So for your URL task, you can do this...

      <cfformitem type="script">
            getMessage = function(){
                  thisMessageID = myData.selectedItem.messageID;
                  getURL("index.cfm?layout=showMessage&messageID="+thisMessageID);
            }
      </cfformitem>
      
      <cfgrid name="myGrid" query="myData" sort="yes" appendkey="yes" selectmode="row" enabled="yes" visible="yes" format="flash" onchange="getMessage();">
            <cfgridcolumn name="messageID" display="no">
            <cfgridcolumn name="messageSubject" header="Name" display="yes" select="yes">
            <cfgridcolumn name="recordTimeStamp" header="Time Stamp" display="yes" width="125" select="no">
      </cfgrid>

btrevarthen,
ok so I totally understand what your saying, and knew that I could use an onChange event. But the question is how do I detect which cell of a grid has been clicked, and invoke a response (checking or unchecking a checkbox) or if the subject line field is clicked open the next url?

Thanks,
Rick

> OnChange is certainly totally valid on a CFGRID.  And you can read any of the values of the selected row when it's clicked too.
>
I do apologise... You are quite correct.  Some how I completely missed it when I was looking through the docs.