Category Archives: Farcry

July 30, 2008
Latest Firefox breaks FarCry 3 context menu– also posted in ColdFusion

If the following describes your environment, this a reminder to upgrade and use the latest Farcry:

Using Mac (OS X Leopard)
Using FarCry v3
Using Firefox and have recently upgraded to version 3.0 or 3.0.1

The reason? Well the new upgrade of Firefox 3 has broken the webtop context menu. You can see the menu, but none of the [...]

July 21, 2008
InetAddressLocator problems with FarCry 3– also posted in ColdFusion

Took me a little bit to find the solution for this across several different board posts so I thought I’d quickly write it up.
For those of us still using FarCry 3 (remember that FarCry 5 is out!) you may come across the following error:
“java init failed: net.sf.javainetloca­tor.InetAddressLocat­or”
The docs tell us:
Geolocator is a plugin that determines [...]

June 23, 2008
New FarCry “core” site– also posted in ColdFusion

The guys at Daemon have been busy of late. With the conference just barely over I just noticed they’ve found the time to launch a new site at http://www.farcrycore.org/ for all your information needs on the FarCry framework.
Includes documentation, downloads (for the new version 5!) and more, go and take a look and try it [...]

June 19, 2008
FarCry – Finding a page by ‘typename’ somewhere above the current page– also posted in ColdFusion

Note: This is for FarCry v3 which is a bit old now but should work for v5
Sometimes when using FarCry I have a need to find an occurance of a page “type” which sits somewhere above where I currently am in the the navigation hierachy.
Say I want to find the “VehicleType” page (which [...]

September 27, 2007
Creating a custom FarCry login page– also posted in ColdFusion

The FarCry security model is really very cool. You can of course setup users within the ‘admin’ area and assign those users to groups (and those groups can have different permissions), but you can also authenticate via Active Directory or LDAP etc.
One thing you can also do with ease is secure particular navigation ‘nodes’ of [...]