Solving technology problems, one at a time
We all know the common CSS selectors that most of us use every day: Select by Classname: .classname {color:#000} Select by Element ID: #id {color:#000} Select by tagname: tagname {color:#000} And combinations of these: Select
Continue readingAnother item I need to keep looking up: how to get the attributes of an XML item. Here, per the ever-helpful Senocular, is the definitive note on the subject. E4X (XML used in ActionScript 3)
Continue readingIt’s very easy to wipe out your default Actionscript classpath from the Publish Settings “Flash” tab, so I’ve had to look it up several times. Here it is for your convenience: $(AppConfig)/ActionScript 3.0/Classes It’s a
Continue readingIf you get an error like this in an actionscript 3 Flash file: TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::SimpleButton@61422481 to [symbolname]. at flash.display::Sprite/constructChildren() at flash.display::Sprite() at flash.display::MovieClip() at classname()[/path_to/as/classname.as:34] Check the symbol
Continue reading
One of the things that I always wondered about Amazon Associates reports was that it the reports display what has been ordered but not the items that were clicked on but not ordered.
Recently I stumbled on that information by accident, so here it is:
Go to your Amazon Associates Orders Report.
Select a date range and scroll down to the report. Items with orders will be shown. But Items with no orders will be hidden, and if there were no orders during the period you select, there will be a very final-looking and misleading message “There was no activity in this period”.
Continue readingAdobe Presenter is an add-on to Powerpoint that produces Articulate-like Flash presentations from your Powerpoint slides. At around $500.00 list price it’s out of reach for a lot of content developers, but with an academic discount the price drops considerably, to about $150, and it starts to be a viable option for SME’s to purchase for Rapid Elearning development.
But even with the lower price, it may not be convenient for everyone involved in producing a course to have Presenter installed, so it is useful to know how to import and sync narration created outside Presenter. This way, a narrator can take their own laptop and a USB microphone off into a completely quiet room, which often makes more difference in the quality of the audio than almost anything else.
Continue readingI just lost 20 minutes trying to line up a list of numbers inside a table cell in Word. The problem was that clicking “tab” only caused the cursor to jump, usually outside the table
Continue reading