Instant Method Finder : My first Coldfusion Builder extension!

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I was in the process of evaluating CFbuilder to make it more effective among the team. what I was looking for was tips and tricks , Faster coding with shortcuts and snippets, make complete use of RDS and make use of Service Browser.

Then I got stuck with the same old problem all most all CF developers face “Finding the right function”. It is easy in technologies like .net with a ful fledged IDE to find methods or variables through out the project. But somewhere we had to wait centuries for Adobe to come up with CFB. Now we can look for the methods and variables in the page or instantiated component by doing a CTRL + SPACE. But that was’nt enough for me !. most of the time , I even dont know where I could find the right method. I have to scan through the service browser to find the function.

But then came the idea , why not create one for myself and team. 3 days later I created my first Coldfusion Builder extension called “Instant Method Finder”. This is a small extension which does the search for functions in all the components in the root and shows you the matching onces along with its parent component. Now I dont have to scan through the complete list in the Service Browser.

Later I added one more feature to type the function name what you know , and then try “am feeling lucky search” which search for the selected text and applied the most closely matching result directly to the code.

Yupppeeee. it works

ScreenShots

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Features

• Search for Functions in components.
• Search for Functions based on selected code (single line offcourse )
• Search and apply the closest resemblance based on selection

Todo

• Directly apply the function from the search window.

You can find the code at http://instantmethodfinder.riaforge.org/

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