Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

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  • Atlanta Macromedia User Group May Meeting

    WHAT: The Atlanta Macromedia User Group May Meeting
    WHEN: 6:30 PM, Wednesday, May 19, 2004 (presentation at 7:00 PM)
    WHERE: The Georgia Tech Student Center
    DIRECTIONS: http://www.visits.gatech.edu/directions.shtml
    WHO: Macromedia via Breeze Live
    TOPIC: Macromedia World Wide User Group Meeting
    RSVP: leifHOWYALIVINNOSPAMIHOPEwells@mac.com

    The details are a bit cryptic right now, but Macromedia is going to be
    giving us a presentation on Wednesday, May 19 at the Georgia Tech
    Student Center. What they have said is that Product Managers will be
    giving us sneak peeks at unreleased products and product updates.

    Get ahead of the curve by attending this meeting!

    Contact Leif (leifHOWYALIVINNOSPAMIHOPEwells@mac.com) if there are any questions

  • Taxes Hurt

    Got my first direct deposit paycheck today at my new job. I was a little unnerved as it appeared lower than what I originally thought I was going to get. I repeatedly punched the numbers and hours into the Calculator again and again to confirm and re-affirm my estimates were correct. I just prayed it was a 1 week paycheck vs. a 2 week.

    Upon arriving home, I received the receipt in the mail, a hard copy of the direct deposit, merely paper documentation the direct deposit is official. It broke down what was deducted from my gross pay. I was flabbergasted at the amount uncle Sam is taking as per his cut. I am not sure if it is my tax bracket, my inputs on my W2 or what, but dear God… state was a little less harsh, but still it hurt. I additionally have 10% taken out for savings. Yearly, I end up netting about half of what I gross in total. Am I paying for the internet or something?

    I sure hope this hizz-ouse helps me out in taxes at the end of the year.

  • createLabel Part Deux

    Dude, figured out why createLabel makes your text field invisible. Check this comment in the mx.controls.SimpleButton class for the createChildren method (called by extendee’s of UIObject):

    create children objects. Components implement this method to create the subobjects in the component. Recommended way is to make text objects invisible and make them visible when the draw() method is called to avoid flicker on the screen.

    Well blow me down… is that even possible? Anyway, makes sense now. I like how ever time I learn something, all of my current components are now wrong, hehe. Maybe I should just remain ignorant, then my code would R0cK!!!

  • createLabel & HTML Text Format Bustin’

    If your component inherits from UIObject/UIComponent (one of the 2), and you utilize the createLabel command, the text field can then respond to style changes (CSS based).

    Since I use createTextField all over the place in my components, createLabel is nice. Basically, it’s the same as createTextField, but adds all the style info and power it needs to respond to setStyle changes (globally, class, or instance based). It’s kind of weird in that it immediately turns your text field’s _visible property to false, but other than that, it does all the CSS integration for you.

    One problem I just found, though, is if you stuff it full of HTML text after you create it (I believe a frame after), the HTML will overwrite the formatting since with html textfields you can format with HTML formatting (whoa…).

    Not sure the “correct” way to be formatting my HTML, I guess via getStyle, and dupe a stylesheet, and then apply it, but in the interim, I just immediately call setStyle after I set it’s htmlText property, and the formatting (font) is good again.