Monthly Archives: December 2009

Flash Event.COMPLETE sometimes doesn’t fire in Firefox

I have run into some strange behaviour in Flash and Firefox recently. We had a Flash movie (AS3) that loads up, in its document classes constructor it sets a few event handlers on loaderInfo: this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadComplete); this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, progress); this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler); this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS, httpStatusHandler); The problem taht seemed to be happening (most of the time, ie not… Read more »

By: Ryan

iPhone development: Setting dimensions on View elements in Interface Builder

A minor point – but if you can’t set the dimensions or x,y of an element in the Size inspector (the boxes appear to be disabled) check the Attributes inspector and make sure that all the ‘Simulated Interface Elements’ (e.g. status bar, toolbar etc) are set to none. That should fix it!

By: Clare Lindley

CSS alphaimageloader png fix for IE6: Images not showing up?

Don’t forget, this method actually embeds an <img> tag in the document, so the path to the image in your CSS file needs to be relative to the actual webpage, and not the CSS file. So if you’re copying and pasting the CSS for a background image from your main CSS file, don’t forget to… Read more »

By: Clare Lindley

Notes on iPhone CoreLocation framework

If you tell the Location Manager to start updating, it will keep returning updates indefinitely until it’s told to stop. It returns the new location to its delegate method: didUpdateToLocation (Like a callback). It will keep trying to get you the most accurate location it can – when you create the Location Manager you can… Read more »

By: Clare Lindley

Monthly Archives: December 2009

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