Embed pound symbol (£) in flash textfield
If you use a dynamic textbox in Flash and you want to embed the British Pound symbol (£) then you will want to also embed the “Latin I” …
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Enable / Disable Cursor Hand in Actionscript 2
If you have a movieclip that by default has the hand cursor showing on RollOver and you don’t really want this, you can disable it by doing the …
Read Article →USB Device Not Recognized! in Windows
Believe it or not, this one is super easy to fix!
It’s actually a temporary problem with your motherboard, all you need to do is:
- turn off your …
Calling event functions from movieclips in actionscript 2
In a flash movie I usually have a frame of actionscript that controls all elements in the file to keep everything in one place.
Sometimes I have an …
Read Article →Sudo install OpenGL & SDL on Ubuntu
A quick and easy way would be to type the following in one line with single spaces in the Terminal.
This way of installing OpenGL and SDL libraries …
How To Modify Hosts File On Windows
The hosts file is located at the following address:
C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc</span>
or
%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc</span>
But …
Get all directories in PHP
I think this may be the fastest way to get a list of all the directories in a given folder/directory using PHP.
I needed this when building a plugin …
Read Article →Security error: securitySandboxError with Flash
You have a flash uploader and you get this error:
security error: securitySandboxError
This means that the flash is not trusted by the domain and you …
Read Article →Component Inspector in Flash has ISSUES!
I discovered a very annoying bug in the Flash IDE a little while ago, and it has happened to me quite a few times.
Today it happened again and so I …
Read Article →Close/Delete Google Checkout Account
I have used Google Checkout to receive payments in the past and have had problems with some clients not paying and blaming it on Google Checkout that …
Read Article →Warning: mysql_affected_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource
Warning: mysql_affected_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource
You have just gotten a warning when trying to check if an …
Read Article →Capitalize First Letter in Word – Actionscript 2
You have a string and you want to capitalize the first character but have the rest of the word in lowercase.
DO THIS!
myStringVar = …HP Pavilion Laptop Madness
I have got an HP laptop and have started experiencing problems with it starting up for the past few months, it is only about 1.5years old and is …
Read Article →Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX
Below is a very interesting article I found that proves all the myths about DirectX being better than OpenGL, a very well written paper describing it …
Read Article →What does __FILE__ in php mean?
In php there are a few magic constants and I find FILE to be a very useful one.
It returns the full path and filename of the file in question.
Take a …
Read Article →Woopra Failed to Connect?
I have used Woopra for a few months now and have started seeing this warning/error almost everyday now:
Could not enable live functionality at this …
Read Article →Change PHP Session Time
The default time for a PHP session is 1440 seconds (24 minutes). After that, the session data is eligible for garbage collection and the user may need …
Read Article →Stop mouse click in browsers
There have been multiple ways to stop your user/s from right clicking on your site, but many of them now fail due to the way firefox’s …
Read Article →Microsoft apps never care!
I often seem to have this issue when dealing with Microsoft software.
You click “Cancel” and it just carrys on going, so you click it …
Place HTML Div on top of Flash
If you have ever tried to place a div or similar HTML element on top of a swf flash object you will know that it always tries to take precedence.
You …
Read Article →Get current working directory of php script/application
Sometimes you need to know the full filesystem path of your PHP script — for example, when building file paths for includes or writing to a log file. …
Read Article →Stage align and Stage scale in actionscript 3
If you want to position the flash top/left and not have it scale when you resize it’s bounding box window, you can set the following code. …
Read Article →Error 406?
So you received an error 406 while trying to upload a file and you have no idea to fix it!
This usually happens when mod_security on your Apache …
Firefox error in FeedProcessor.js
[Exception… “Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [nsIChannel.contentType]” nsresult: “0x80040111 …
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