Viewing by month: May 2005
ActionScript Issue - gotoAndPlay() Behavior
Posted on May 27, 2005
Ok, let me preface this by saying that I am by no means a Flash or ActionScript expert...in fact I probably know enough to just get by, but I was encountering what appeared to be an odd behavior in my ActionScript for a game I was helping to develop. Basically, I had a movie clip functioning as a button inside another movie clip that when pressed called "_root.gotoAndPlay(6)". Yet, every time the button was pressed, it started the movie over. It did not matter what frame number I placed or if it called a gotoAndStop(6)...it always went to frame 1. Why?!?? The same behavior on a button in the root worked. Am I missing some nugget of ActionScript knowledge? Anyway, I got it to work in the end by adding a label to the frame and then calling it as "_root.gotoAndPlay('theFrameLabel')"...but if someone can share the reason the other fomat did not work, I would love to know.
Problems with Eclipse
Posted on May 25, 2005
Recently I upgraded my Eclipse installation to the Stable Build 3.1 M7 and ever since I have been getting errors when I work on certain folders on a mapped drive. The error occurs when I edit a file in the particular folder and save it. Afterwards, if I try to save it again, I get the following error:
Reason:
Has been changed on the file system
Shannon Hicks reported exactly the same issue to me, so I am not alone. I would rather not revert to the older installation (this install is much faster), but it making work difficult (I need to keep closing and reopening the file after every save).
Has anyone else encountered this? If so, have you found a solution?
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Boston CF Birthday Party
Posted on May 24, 2005
I saw Adam Howitt's blog post and noticed that somehow I had missed this prior, but there will be an event in Boston to celebrate ColdFusion's 10th birthday...and conveniently (for me anyway) close to where I live! Find the details here
Finally got DBEdit for Eclipse Working
Posted on May 18, 2005
Well, for mySQL anyway...which is a start. (As with many aspects of using Eclipse) I could not find a walk through on how you actually do that anywhere, I figure I will do that here (and anyone who may know better, please correct me).
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There has to be a better way!?
Posted on May 13, 2005
Sorry for the lack of posts recently. I am working on a number of items which I hope to post more about soon (g11n in particular)...but for the moment I want to share an interesting problem. I think maybe I am being blind here and ended up making this query more complex than it has to be (and I am hoping someone can straighten me out - or maybe tell me this is correct).
The problem is with a query that I am rebuilding (the original was not mine). For arguments sake let's say this, the pages that call this query send a list of brands for a product. Brands and products have a many to many relationship, and what we need to know is which products are in all of the brands on the list.