manewcActionscript Snippets

Actionscript 3.0

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So, on my flight to Las Vegas I decided I would finally take the time to learn more about Actionscript 3. I chose Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! by Keith Peters to fill the void. Only 3/4 of the way through this book, so far it has been a great learning experience. Concise tutorials [...]

.PNG Hacks for Internet Explorer (IE 5.5)

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Project: Display .png images among modern browsers
Resources: http://www.alistapart.com/
Summary: This can go in your .css file for the proper browsers:

#mypngimage {
background: transparent url(”/path/to/image.png”) repeat-y left top;
padding: 8px 0;
}
.. and for IE 5.5 - IE 6.0 you will append this:

#mypngimage {
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src=’/path/to/image.png’,sizingMethod=’scale’);
/* NOTE: YOU WILL ALSO HAVE TO DEFINE THE BLOCK */
display: block;
height: 50%;
width: 199px;
/* I HAVE FOUND [...]

Keyboard ~ Number Pad Disabled

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On my Mac G5 with OS X 10.4.10 my keyboard’s number pad stopped working in most applications, like Firefox for one. As annoying as it is to lose your number pad, I finally found the solution.
In short I pulled up spotlight and searched for the following 2 files:
Both are located: /Users/Library/Preferences/

com.apple.systempreferences.plist
com.apple.universalaccess.plist

.. then I renamed them, [...]