Archive for April, 2008

Applying Alpha Transparency to the System Font in Flash 9

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

If you have tried applying an alpha transparency fade to the ‘_sans’ system font in Flash 9 you’ll know that it doesn’t work. The fix is to apply a filter to the textfield first:
myTextField.filters = [new BlurFilter(0,0,0)];
myTextField.alpha = 0.5;

Please Can I Have Permission to Delete My Own Fracking Files?

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

I’ve been using Vista for about a year now and overall I’m pretty happy. It’s essentially XP with nicer drop shadows. But there is one thing that drives me absolutely nuts and I’ve yet to find a solution for it.
Almost every time I try to delete a folder off my machine I get this message: [...]

PostcardViewer Update

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

I completed the viewer update trifecta – PostcardViewer has been updated to v1.2.
I actually re-wrote the code from scratch, since the previous code was starting to show it’s age. The main new feature is captions. Since the images are rotated slightly the text requires an embedded font to render. This means that non-english characters, italics [...]

SimpleViewer v1.8.5 Released

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

When I first created SimpleViewer back in 2003, it was mainly a reaction against the multitude of bad web photo galleries that were out there. The idea was to create a gallery that was simple, unobtrusive and usable. I did not expect 5 years later that it would be getting over 15,000 downloads a week!.
This [...]


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