cfajaxproxy woes

now more issues...

i had a script running to populate a city and state field on a blur event from the zip code field pointing back to a cfc to do the processing. it was running fine inside a cfwindow until i was frustrated with the woes of cfwindow and had to cut it out. by just taking it out of that window and adding header/footer includes it suddenly stopped seeing my callback handler and the whole deal just quit. i backed out the header/footer includes for kicks and giggles to see if it would help and NOPE!

my deal with cfwindow is i couldn't figure out a good way of handling the expiration of session variables if you open a window. basically if the session expired and then you come back and try to open the window you get an ajax error, say ok to the error and then the login screen appears inside the cfwindow. no good in my app.

ugh...

cfajax is....junk

ok, haven't been in here a while but this is worth throwing out there.

cfajax is junk. i was excited to see how simple it was at cfunited but now i'm majorly disappointed. these are the two major shortcomings i've found plus other annoyances.

1) You can't do more than 1 cflocation with in a container. The second will push the destination page out to the parent. So no path of pages such as a checkout process. Using the SubmitForm() to try and get around the problem also first pushed the page out to the parent and then on the second click it worked. Well that doesn't help!

2) No input type=file within a container. It can't pass the multipart attrib through and you just get an error stating you need it every time.

3) Maybe this is just an ajax thing in general, but a script doesn't run from the parent to a child container. Bumma.

Now i need to learn how to use a real javascript library. ugh.