Customizing the Development Environment

If you have used HomeSite or ColdFusion Studio awhile, you have probably taken advantage of its flexible interface to position toolbars, set tag color-coding, define validation levels, and a host of other options.

You can take this open interface several steps further by creating your own tag editors. Many CFML custom tag developers build tag editors to distribute with their tags. These can be identified in Allaire's Tag Gallery (http://www.allaire.com/developer/taggallery/) by the <VTM> marker next to the tag name. You can also modify existing tag editors to suit your needs or create special-purpose ones.

Custom Wizards can be created to generate code, create documents, or create multi-document web-based applications based on user input in the development environment.

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