Solving technology problems, one at a time
I use a Wacom Intuos 2 tablet on my right hand for fine control, and a Kensington trackball on the left for big scrolling movements. The combination has helped preserve my wrists so far, since
Continue readingWith some microphones, particularly Plantronics USB headset mic’s, you may get an error when you try to set the Microphone Level in Powerpoint. “Powerpoint is not receiving sound from the microphone. Try one of the
Continue readingWhen trying to replace some old files in my local workspace, then commit the new ones to CVS, I got this error:
It turned out that the files had been previously stored in another CVS repository, with a different directory structure. Some of the directories still had CVS folders with pointers to the old repository directories and hostname.
Continue readingI had a particularly sticky flash problem where a MovieClip worked perfectly when run on its own, but when loaded into a container clip using a loader, would give:
Error #1056: Cannot create property someProperty on loaded clip myLoadedClip
At first I thought it was some kind of timing problem or failure to declare the items in the clip, but it turned out, simply adding the word dynamic to the class definition fixed the problem. Dynamic classes can have properties added at runtime. The MovieClip class is already dynamic, but apparently, the dynamic property is removed in some other part of my code.