Helmut Granda
learning through interaction
Delete enhanced fill problem
Jan 29th
Thats it! I am tired of getting the “Enhanced fill not supported in current player version” problem when I import fills from AI/FH/FW and you need to export to V7 or under, so once and for all I am putting a stop to it.
Here are 3 simple steps to get rid of this problem (of [...]
Trace selected text with TextMate
Jan 24th
That is right, thanks to the guys from TextMate and their help I was able to get a small Macro that will trace the selected word in Flash.
What I mean is this:
1. Select a word
2. Run the Macro
3. the word you selected will appear in the next line as follows:
trace(”the Word You Selected = ” [...]
Complex Array combo
Jan 23rd
I haven’t tested this kind of array usage against the processor so I am not sure how intensive it is but it definitely helps in case you want to keep your arrays very descriptive and you don’t want to do a search on the array every-time you need a certain node.
So the regular way of [...]
Password protected flash site Class
Jan 22nd
After seeing so many people requesting help with the easy Username and Password method for Flash I decided to write a small class.
Granted UserName and Password verification shouldn’t be taken slightly, but many times you just want to make a section of your site “Pass Protected with flash”, and in reality this is a very [...]
Dealing with TextMate
Jan 11th
So I have been doing a lot of ActionScript lately and I should say that is nice to have to use the Flash IDE only 10% of the time, and I am looking for ways to reduce that from 5% to 0% of the time, it is tricky since at work I have to use [...]
My first take at ROR
Jan 7th
I took for a spin ROR (Ruby on Rails) tonight since I had some free time, I started installing it along with a XAMPP installation that I already have running. At first they didn’t want to talk to each other but in the end they both end up working just fine. I would like to [...]
RubyOnRails Controllers
Jan 7th
when creating a new controller the file name of the controller has to be the same as the controller itself and it can be either xxxxx_controller or just xxxxxx
For example
mytest_controller.rb – ok
mytest.rb – ok
mytest_co.rb – not ok
also make sure you add ::BASE after the class name definition or you will get a horrifying error… well [...]