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We had a need at work this week to create an interface that allows users to change the sort order of items using a drag-n-drop interface. Drag-n-Drop is one thing that Adobe’s Spry library is missing. But with the help of the Scriptaculous JavaScript library, this is a pretty easy task.

Scriptaculous is an add-on to the Prototype JavaScript framework. Start by downloading Scriptaculous and linking to it on your page. You don’t need to download Prototype separately, its included.

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Last night I gave a presentation to our local ColdFusion Users Group on Adobe Spry. There is a lot to cover, so we didn’t get too deep, but everyone seemed to be pretty impressed with what they did see of it.

Attached are my slides and code examples. To reduce file size, only the necessary Spry files are included, so if you are going to play around with Spry you really should download the complete release. Also note that if you are trying to run these examples on a Linux box, the two related selects example won’t run. You can blame the Spry team for their sample XML data – the states.xml file references states in mixed case, but the statename.xml files are in lower case.

Here my resource links from the end of the presentation:
Offical Site – http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/
● Ray Camden has written several blog posts about using
Spry – http://ray.camdenfamily.com
● QueryToXml UDF – http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=648
● toXML is a ColdFusion component that translates various ColdFusion datatypes into XML strings -
http://ray.camdenfamily.com/projects/toxml/

Download the presentation slides and code examples