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Yeah, a biggy and vague topic. Those of you who wondered into my site probably read a lot of forums and technical blogs each stating their own style of installing Microsoft Windows Vista.

About a few months ago, I was trying to upgrade my Pentium 4 to Windows Vista SP1, but encounter tonnes of blue screen problem to system hangs on boot up. IT WAS A NIGHTMARE!

Then, I reformatted and stopped the SP1 from auto updating until I resolved this issue. Later, this month – I decided to get a new set with better hardware and hopefully having less trouble in installing to Vista. Prior to that I’ve done some research here and there.

I listed out some of the important pointers one should take before considering about installing Vista on your test machine.

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EventListener EVENT.ENTER_FRAME as we all know is useful to trigger function you want to check up on conditions for a indefinite period of time. e.g. A check for game over state in a flash game. However, to control the flow of the your flash projects, usually we build only one of these and employ it to the stage trigger various function to have a better control over the code.

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Over the weekend, I was rushing for some project of mine coding some AS3 package and I kept getting errors that goes like … “Error 5000 : The Class “xxx” must subclass “flash.display.MovieClip” since it is linked to a library symbol of that type” ; as much as I love AS3.0, it is frustrating sometimes to encounter error which didn’t help users to locate or fix the bug. I hope things will be better in the upcoming CS4.

 

Two possible situation as listed below.

 

1. Forget to import flash.display.* which is necessary for all display objects on stage.

Flash Actionscript IDE does not debug or trace for errors on real time coding so, most of the time the programmers will forget what’s happening.

 

2. Do not add function Brackets for Class

This is very common but surprisingly this is the most common mistake I do every time I script a package document class. Note: This error is hard to spot as the class is very near to the method functions. Just remember the syntax no function like brackets for class. e.g. like samples below :-

 

package{
//REMEMBER : Add import associated with the display.
import flash.display.*        
 
//REMEMBER : class does not have () like method functions.
      public class docClass extends MovieClip{
	      public function docClass(){
		     trace("Class Loaded Successfully");
	      }
      }
}

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Just last month, I was rushing to compile my favourite 80′s song and later I noticed all the albums does not have an album art for it. How do I create a generic album art? Simple – there’s actually a lot of sample album art inside your iTunes installation folder. All you need to do is to browse the folder called X:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.Resources (Where X is the drive you installed your iTunes into) and take a look at the sample of graphical generic album art you get.

To fit the album art into your compilation, first start iTunes and open up your playlist. Shift click and select all the songs you wanted to compiled as one album under one album art for e.g. My Classical Collection 2008. Simply edit one of the selected album in the playlist (while songs are selected, rename just one and all the selected file album will be renamed accordingly). Next you may want to assign an album art for it by dragging images from the folder which I’ve mentioned to the album artwork section in ITunes located at the left hand corner.

 

 

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Hmmm, interesting. I was playing around with Adobe tweening classes just last week. These tweening classes are the default ones found in CS3 (Note this is not the open source ones, as listed in this post here)

Here are the sample tweener class of motion tween-y and fade effect in action. (we are going to move the movieClip up and down and with the fade effect altogether).

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