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News.com.au - Vista Ad (in Flash)

If you head to news.com.au you will see they are showing the news with a Microsoft Windows Vista widget. This widget is done with Flash!

Clicking on find out more, takes you to the windows vista homepage.

Here is a screen-shot of the flash application on the news homepage:

1 comment January 30th, 2007

GetURL and javascript

This is kind of an old problem, but just in case anyone runs into it. If you are trying to call getURL and javascript commands from an html on your local computer, then it won’t work unless you add the parameter=allowscriptaccess and value=always.

Testing in the browser gives you no feedback at all, and it just doesn’t work. But if you use the Firefox extension: Flash Tracer, then you get this message:

*** Security Sandbox Violation ***

Here are the livedocs with all the parameters you can use.

6 comments January 30th, 2007

Delete CVS files

When you copy files from a CVS Repository you always get those CVS folders and files.
If you want to delete them and you don’t have access to the CVS Server than you can use this command line:
(updated, as code. If you copied it before 2007-01-16 the quotes weren’t correctly outputed)

for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('dir /b/a/s CVS*') do @rmdir /q /s "%%i"

I’ve used Aral Balkan’s command from this link though it wasn’t working for me, because my CVS folders were read only and hidden. If your CVS folders aren’t hidden then I recommend you use Aral’s approach which is much faster.

Have fun and batch safely. I will not be held responsible if you delete any unwanted files.
If you feel uncomfortable executing this command, try replacing @rmdir with echo this will give you a glimpse of what you’ll be deleting.
If you find yourself running the script quite often, then you can add the command to your windows explorer right-click context menu by creating a batch file.

Here’s the code for the batch file:

@echo off
echo Deleting CVS folders and files under: %1
REM Open Folder specified by parameter.
cd %1
REM Recursive delete command
for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('dir /b/a/s CVS*') do @rmdir /q /s "%%i"
echo Done!

Open regedit and goto: My Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\
Create a new entry: “Delete CVS Files” and under that one, create a new key called: command
In Value add the path to the batch file created with %D %L at the end.
Here are some screen shots:

Right button click Context Menu.

Regedit. Adding the folder right button click:

*UPDATE*: Comments are closed for this post. I was getting too many spam.

11 comments January 13th, 2007

This is me “South Parked”

You can use the online flash tool to create your own South Park characters.
Found through this weblog: http://evolutionar-e.com/blog/?p=36

Have fun.

Add comment January 11th, 2007