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Slider 0.94b Coming Along
18/11/08 23:39
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I’ve solved one of the IE7 problems - the mysterious disappearing arrows.
I solved it by giving both the left and the right arrows’![]()
tags width and height values. These are just set to the width and height of the image used.
I still have the “overflow:hidden” problem to solve. I’m a bit confused over this one. I’ve Googled my fingers raw, but haven’t found much mention of similar problems.
IE7 just won’t apply overflow:hidden to the element’s children. Very irritating.
Timed transitions, however, turned out to be a breeze to implement.
Here is a snapshot of the controls that will be available for this new feature:
I hope to fix the overflow:hidden problem and have a release ready buy the end of the week.
Fingers crossed.
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I’ve solved one of the IE7 problems - the mysterious disappearing arrows.
I solved it by giving both the left and the right arrows’
I still have the “overflow:hidden” problem to solve. I’m a bit confused over this one. I’ve Googled my fingers raw, but haven’t found much mention of similar problems.
IE7 just won’t apply overflow:hidden to the element’s children. Very irritating.
Timed transitions, however, turned out to be a breeze to implement.
Here is a snapshot of the controls that will be available for this new feature:
I hope to fix the overflow:hidden problem and have a release ready buy the end of the week.
Fingers crossed.
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Slider Progress is Slow
08/11/08 18:14
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I am still working on making Slider 100% IE friendly.
It’s been extremely frustrating, as a lot of the time I have no idea why effect x won’t work in IE. I really dislike IE.
Just letting you all know that I am still working on it, though it is taking far longer than I expected.
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I am still working on making Slider 100% IE friendly.
It’s been extremely frustrating, as a lot of the time I have no idea why effect x won’t work in IE. I really dislike IE.
Just letting you all know that I am still working on it, though it is taking far longer than I expected.
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Slider Finally Released!
29/09/08 01:44
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I'm feeling pretty happy right now - I just released the beta version of my new plugin!
You can check it out here:
Code of Interest
As I expected, the release brought a few problems to light:
My license file processing code couldn't handle non-ASCII characters, which stopped my first customer from being able to unlock his Slider. I solved this by using:
$first_name = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9-]", "", $_POST['first_name']);
$last_name = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9-]", "", $_POST['last_name']);
To strip the non-ASCII characters from the customer's name before the name is entered into the license file. It seems to have solved the problem.
Another customer raised an important issue with the main content positioning controls - what he thought was padding was actually just shifting the whole cell to the left, which meant text wasn't wrapping properly.
I solved this by changing the CSS from altering the position to altering the padding, and added right and bottom padding controls.
The same customer raised an excellent point regarding the arrow position sliders. When one chooses "outside" positioning for the arrows, the "synchronize" check box is no longer useful, and one often has to position the right arrow much further right than the left, often more than the 400px limit imposed by the slider. There are text fields into which one may input more precise (and higher numbers) numbers, and I intended that they be used instead of the sliders when positioning arrows outside.
I think I'll make it so the sliders and synchronize checkbox are disabled when the user selects outside arrows.
Fun!
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I'm feeling pretty happy right now - I just released the beta version of my new plugin!
You can check it out here:
Code of Interest
As I expected, the release brought a few problems to light:
My license file processing code couldn't handle non-ASCII characters, which stopped my first customer from being able to unlock his Slider. I solved this by using:
$first_name = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9-]", "", $_POST['first_name']);
$last_name = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9-]", "", $_POST['last_name']);
To strip the non-ASCII characters from the customer's name before the name is entered into the license file. It seems to have solved the problem.
Another customer raised an important issue with the main content positioning controls - what he thought was padding was actually just shifting the whole cell to the left, which meant text wasn't wrapping properly.
I solved this by changing the CSS from altering the position to altering the padding, and added right and bottom padding controls.
The same customer raised an excellent point regarding the arrow position sliders. When one chooses "outside" positioning for the arrows, the "synchronize" check box is no longer useful, and one often has to position the right arrow much further right than the left, often more than the 400px limit imposed by the slider. There are text fields into which one may input more precise (and higher numbers) numbers, and I intended that they be used instead of the sliders when positioning arrows outside.
I think I'll make it so the sliders and synchronize checkbox are disabled when the user selects outside arrows.
Fun!
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Hint
03/09/08 01:10
After realising that my dream of a "Fantastic stand-alone RW helper program" was a fantasy, doomed from its inception, I hid in the wardrobe and sulked.
While I was there, I had an epiphany. My epiphany was constructed of two small epiphanies, neither more important than the other:
1) My wardrobe is not bad. Honestly, I'd rather live there than a lot of places I've stayed in the past.
2) Developing an application using Java that will be run solely on Macs is silly - sooner or later I'll have to learn Cocoa, might as well be sooner.
Sulk over, I promptly forgot about my journey of self-discovery and the wisdom it had bestowed upon me. University got busy for awhile - heaps of Chickens and Chinese. I spent a lot of time each day writing Chinese characters, as part of my continued efforts aimed at one day enabling me to read a Chinese Science Fiction novel, if they exist. Two and a half years after starting, I can almost almost read the blurb of a novel. Almost.
One weekend I spent such a long time writing characters, and could see so little progress from my effort that I decided I'd write a program that tracked the characters I write each day (or didn't write, as is so often the case), and display the numbers to me along with a daily average. I hadn't learned any Cocoa at that stage, so it was to be in Java. The app works pretty well - it took a little fiddling to get it to enter the days I hadn't written characters into the save file when the program starts, but now it all works.
Here's a screenshot of the program (note the abysmal daily average):
It works. My favourite aspect is the icon.
One and a half weeks ago, my average was 3000 per day. It's dropped, because I've been spending every waking moment on a new project: Slider.
It's a plugin for our beloved Rapid Weaver. I'm sure you'll all like it, but I'm afraid I can't say much more than that now. It should be out within a week, I'll release more details closer to the time.
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While I was there, I had an epiphany. My epiphany was constructed of two small epiphanies, neither more important than the other:
1) My wardrobe is not bad. Honestly, I'd rather live there than a lot of places I've stayed in the past.
2) Developing an application using Java that will be run solely on Macs is silly - sooner or later I'll have to learn Cocoa, might as well be sooner.
Sulk over, I promptly forgot about my journey of self-discovery and the wisdom it had bestowed upon me. University got busy for awhile - heaps of Chickens and Chinese. I spent a lot of time each day writing Chinese characters, as part of my continued efforts aimed at one day enabling me to read a Chinese Science Fiction novel, if they exist. Two and a half years after starting, I can almost almost read the blurb of a novel. Almost.
One weekend I spent such a long time writing characters, and could see so little progress from my effort that I decided I'd write a program that tracked the characters I write each day (or didn't write, as is so often the case), and display the numbers to me along with a daily average. I hadn't learned any Cocoa at that stage, so it was to be in Java. The app works pretty well - it took a little fiddling to get it to enter the days I hadn't written characters into the save file when the program starts, but now it all works.
Here's a screenshot of the program (note the abysmal daily average):
It works. My favourite aspect is the icon.
One and a half weeks ago, my average was 3000 per day. It's dropped, because I've been spending every waking moment on a new project: Slider.
It's a plugin for our beloved Rapid Weaver. I'm sure you'll all like it, but I'm afraid I can't say much more than that now. It should be out within a week, I'll release more details closer to the time.
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Rounded Corner Smart Blocks
25/06/08 16:38
Late last night I finally finished my first Smart Block Package!
30 user-configurable Smart Blocks, each with attractive rounded corners - each simple and easy to use.
Fully customizable Smart Blocks - No need to touch the code!
• Block width
• Title
• Title alignment - left, center, right
• Title font size
• Title font e.g Arial
• Title colour - #FF0000 or RED
• Main text - HTML is OK too!
• Main text alignment - left, center, right
• Main text font size
• Main text font
• Main text colour
• Block ID
I would have released them sooner, but you know ... Internet Explorer got in the way.
If you’d like to see how they look, head over to the Blocks Smorgasboard! After that, if you’d like to learn more about them, head over to Code of Interest.
Also, I had my last exam today, which is a real relief. Now I can spend some time working on my next idea, which is a secret! It should be released soon (within 3 days), so you won’t have to wait too long :).
30 user-configurable Smart Blocks, each with attractive rounded corners - each simple and easy to use.
• Block width
• Title
• Title alignment - left, center, right
• Title font size
• Title font e.g Arial
• Title colour - #FF0000 or RED
• Main text - HTML is OK too!
• Main text alignment - left, center, right
• Main text font size
• Main text font
• Main text colour
• Block ID
I would have released them sooner, but you know ... Internet Explorer got in the way.
If you’d like to see how they look, head over to the Blocks Smorgasboard! After that, if you’d like to learn more about them, head over to Code of Interest.
Also, I had my last exam today, which is a real relief. Now I can spend some time working on my next idea, which is a secret! It should be released soon (within 3 days), so you won’t have to wait too long :).