Archive for March, 2007

Hairline scale attribute - watch out!   no comments

Posted at 11:25 am in Flash/Flex

Recently I spent a long time trying to figure out why a V2 component I skinned wasn’t displaying correctly. The problem was my hairline strokes were getting scaled. Being old skool I alway thought hairline ment the stoke never scaled. However since Flash 8 That’s not the case. There is now a scale attribute for strokes which I hadn’t noticed before. Normally this has never been a problem as if you use the line tool and set the stroke thickness to ‘hairline’ it generally automatically sets the scale to ‘none’. However when importing graphics from an illustrator 9 (.swf export) the scale is set to ‘normal’. This is ‘cos illustrator 9 exports to flash v6 I presume. Read the rest of this entry »

Written by paddy on March 28th, 2007

Children of Latin America - The Walk For The Children   1 comment

Posted at 11:07 am in Uncategorized

On Sunday April 1st I’m going on a little stroll along the Thames from Hampton Court to Putney and in the process try to raise some cash for a small charity. The charity is called ‘Children of Latin America’ (Reg No:1111335) and every 3 months or so it raised about £2,000 for a designated Latin American charity.
It then identifies a kids charity in the country to which it gives the money for kids programmes. My goal is to raise a staggering £100. If anyone feels the urge to part with a few pounds to help out please do, pennys will do too ;) Also if anyone whats to join us on the walk feel free! Thanks for your time paddy ;)

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Written by paddy on March 23rd, 2007