Until recently, I used to be able to right click on the Flash movie in a browser and select About Flash Player… menu, which will open the Adobe website showing what player version is installed.  Yeah, I know it says 9 already in the menu, but that’s not good enough.  Sometimes we developers need to […]

In Flex, there’s a define directive, which is useful to enable/disable certain sections of your code.  The syntax is like this: -define=namespace::identifier,value It is similar to C’s #if #endif and #ifdef #endif feature. You can, for example, designate sections of code to be only compiled on Debug build.  Or to disable sections of code for […]

Where To Get The Debug Flash Player Installers This link at Adobe has a list of archived Flash Player versions from Flash 8. http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html Debug Players supports the “trace” command (while Release version does not) by writing to a log file. To see trace outputs, you can open the log directly (using a text editor), […]

Below is an example of the drop down menu.  Click the menu to see it in action. OVERVIEW The Common Libraries in Flash 5 has a feature that makes creating a drop-down (pull-down) menu very easy.  Using this library is a good way to learn how to create this type of user interface and to […]

INTRODUCTION This tutorial assumes some familiarity with Cascading Style Sheet and DHTML. Cascading Style Sheet-Level 2 (CSS2) allows for cursor alterations.  The appearance of the cursor can be altered by setting the cursor property of anelement‘s style-sheet.  (An element is an html object, such as a <table>, an <img>, or a <div> section on the html […]

Setting Icons for Your Web Site For Bookmarks and Favorites This tutorial is tested with Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, and Opera 9.2 on Windows XP. Setting Icons for Your Site Icons are used for Bookmarks (or Favorites in Internet Explorer) and appear in the browser’s address bar. The standard icons look like these: Firefox: […]

Definition Client-Pull refers to a technique that enables a browser/client to request (or “pull”) data from the server automatically without the user-intervention. The key property here is “without user-intervention.”  If not for  this attribute, then the term is meaningless because it will be no different than when an user enters an URL to request a […]

   What are these HTTP protocol status codes? Whenever a browser request data from a web server, the server must respond with a number.  The number indicates the status of the request (whether it has failed or successful, etc).  The number is taken from a set of codes called the HTTP protocol status codes.  HTTP […]

Tip 1: How to make some text links appear in different color from what is defined in BODY tag. The trick is to put the <FONT COLOR> tags inside the <A> tags like below: <A HREF=”link.html”><FONT COLOR=”#FF00FF”>Link</FONT></A> If you have the <FONT COLOR> tags outside the <A> tag (such as below), then it will not […]