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New theme!

Posted by James - 07/11/07 at 01:11:34 am

Well there we are, a new theme. It’s been needing an overhaul for a little while now, so this is phase one - Live implimentation. As usual, nothing is set in stone, and I imagine I’ll be spotting and squashing bugs or tweaking designs for a few more weeks to come.

Why the overhaul? #1 - I was never really happy with the construction of the first theme, being a little… ugly code wise. #2 - A chance to make the theme smarter, with more widgets support, and #3 Wordpress 2.3 broke a helluva lot of nasty hardcoded parts.

Good parts? I’ve cleaned the code up a bit and added smarter signposting. Some new custom pages are on their way, once I figure out all the php niggles I have left. Bad parts? Some of the older pages look nasty now.

So, anyone care to comment? I’m not exactly decided about the sidebar styles and a few other bits - but what do you think?

Syncronising ScrollPane Components in ActionScript 2.

Posted by James - 04/11/07 at 03:11:57 pm

This is perhaps an unusual one - and one I haven’t seen anyone else make much fuss over, so here goes.

Using the standard Version 2 components (Flash MX2004+) I’ve been trying to link the movement of three components together. “No biggie” you’d think. You can after all, set listeners on the .scroll property of the component instance, and then use that to set the .scroll properties of the other instances. Well yes, that’s true - but looking closely at the movement of the ScrollPanes, you can see a slight lag in their movement. A bit of frantic scrolling can throw the whole thing out of place.
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