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Flex 3 DateChooser UTC issue

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What I intend to do

The task can be described as it is. There’s a Flex 3 DateChooser component integrated with a custom timeline component. The problem occurs when exporting the data from the flash to the browser. Than I write the unix timestamp to the url of the browser. Of course I’m using date.getTime() in Flex.

getTime()

Applying getTime() to any object of type Date in Flex results in a unix timestamp with included milliseconds. Of course the server side technology which in our case is PHP should devide by 1000 to remove the milliseconds. Continue reading Flex 3 DateChooser UTC issue →

Zend_Date with dates before 1901

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Zend_Date

Zend_Date is the Zend Framework module for manipulation of dates. It gives several advantages. Everybody how has dealed with dates knows that built in PHP date function cannot manage dates before 1901. With that kind of problems Zend_Date is pretty fine.

How to do that

If you have only

Zend_Date::set($timestamp);

is not enough. The timestamp is an int representation and the framework cannot get the timezone from that and trows an error.

The simple way to solve the problem

Replace the line above with these: Continue reading Zend_Date with dates before 1901 →

Flex 3 HSlider thumb gap issue

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Introduction to the problem

When the HSlider is set up with two or more thumbs there’s a gap between them always. The problem is that you may want to put them on one single value of the slider, but it’s not possible.

First: hide your thumbs

The quick solution is to make custom skin for the thumbs, setup the height and width of the thumb to be 1px and make a transparent background image for skinning them. That of course does not solve the problem. There’s still gap of 1 value between the thumbs, and still you cannot select one single value with both of them. Continue reading Flex 3 HSlider thumb gap issue →

You should not insert an “a” tag in another “a” tag! …

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The Problem

Well it may look strange to want to do that exaclty. Who wants to have a <a> tag in another. It really looks semanticaly incorrect, but however, every normal A grade browser’s displaing it correctly, except .. IE6.

The Case

The Microsoft team may be too much semanticaly involved in that problem, I should guess, but that’s really impossible.

The Workaround

The workaround is trivial. You just put the <a> tags one after another and adjust them with relative position and margin with negative values.

… and The Example

<a href=”#”>link here</a>

<a href=”#” style=”margin:-10px 0 0; position : relative;”>link there</a>

Flash doesn’t load in div with display:none style

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Where’s the problem?

As it appears if you have flash embed / object tags in a div which is initaly hidden (style=”display:none”) cannot be loaded. It means the .swf file is loaded via HTTP but when the div become visible then starts the loading process and the flash starts from the begining.

Is there a workaround?

I’m looking for a workaround which I’ll share as soon as I find it. If you have a solution please share it with us.