Testing an embedded video podcast

Yes, it's yours truly.

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Off to Grandvalira!! Oh Yeah!

Off skiing for a week in Andorra with my new ski boots. I can't bloody wait!!!

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Swf Object Javascript not displaying correctly in some browsers

After having issues with some browsers incorrectly displaying the height of an embedded swf object I came across this fix to add to the html before the embed code.

/* hide from ie on mac \*/
html
{
height: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}

#flashcontent
{
height: 100%;
}
/* end hide */

body
{
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: #ffffff;
}

Flex fun never stops - Image loading and resizing

It doesn't seem that any particular aspect of what I'm working on is simple. Or easy.

The post I was pretty much about to recreate is summed up nicely by Alastair’s Axioms blog.

Here’s the brief load an external image into Flex, resize it to fit in a container (but don’t make it bigger than the original), center it in the container, and smooth the image to get rid of any aliasing. Sounds like a simple job, slap down a VBox, set vertical and horizontal alignment, add an Image component and set it’s width and height to 100%, grab some handy image smoothing code, you’re done no? No. There’s a issue with every one of those steps.

Web Services - Basic Authentication in Flex

I need to expand on this - but critically when using webservices and basic authentication in Flex, go to the import WSDL option in the File menu. From there you can set your authentication credentials as follows:

var encoder:Base64Encoder = new Base64Encoder();
encoder.encode(_username + ":" + _password);
var encodedCredentials:String = encoder.flush ();

if (message.httpHeaders == null)
message.httpHeaders = {};
message.httpHeaders["Authorization"] = "Basic " + encodedCredentials;

More here on the Flex Live site.

Podium Podcasting - Test Embedding

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Mine

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HSliders and VSliders in Flex

Another infuriatingly well documented feature from Flex. Having spent an considerable amount of time trying to skin a VSlider using the trackHighlightSkin with an embedded clip - it was somewhat of a surprise to discover you need to create your skin's for an HSlider; Flex then rotates these into the vertical - so all your height and width settings are flipped around.

Another well documented feature from Flex. [Grumble].