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March 2003 - Posts

Editing of datagrid with Images

Marcie replied to me on the post about Editing of datagrid with Images

"Cool. I just added it to my articles page. Let me know if you see any other neat Datagrid articles that I'm missing."

Thanks Marcie.

You see folks, how blogging is quite cool. You can find yourself in the situation to help anybody, gurus or not, and you feel happy after that.

I am so pride to be read by Datagrid Girl ;-)
Posted: Mar 28 2003, 06:43 PM by help.net | with no comments
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Why are music companies shooting themselves in the foot?

As soon as it has been released, I went to my local CD reseller to buy Sleeping with ghosts, Placebo's latest album. I was ready to enjoy this great music, but...

When I put the CD in my PC, I quickly realized that I would not be able to play it! My PC, and all PCs I tried the CD with, do not recognize this CD as an audio CD.
Oh, I must confess that I am a bit to negative. The CD would actually play in PCs equiped with a soundcard as there is a custom software player included on the CD.
But, you know what, I was at work, and the PC I use there has no soundcard, so I wasn't able to properly play the CD. Had I have a soundcard, the sound would not have been great as the included player does not play the music directly from the CD but using the soundcard, and a with a lower quality...

From Fabrice

Fabrice, that's remind me the so infamous dongles that we have to plug in the first PCs to make software working.

So it was impossible to have two machines running with the same software, unless you have 2 copies.

And the mess when you have to install two dongles on the same machine, with sometine the Centronics printer refusing to work.
History repeat by itself, and stupidity too.
When music companies will understand that the solution is to make CDs cheaper, like software, to fight piracy, and not to put the blame on the consumer ? 
Posted: Mar 28 2003, 06:32 PM by help.net | with 1 comment(s)
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Grand Slam Sunday !


I am a huge rugby fan, but a very small guy ;-)

And a supporter of the Irish team, so Sunday is the big day for the green jersey against the English.

I wish that we can win this time. Please mister we never have the grand slam since ... 1948.

Go on Brian O'Driscoll, you're one of the best captain Ireland had never have !



So Sunday will be also a good celebration day, because whatever the result of the match, as usual everything will finish in a pub.
Posted: Mar 28 2003, 06:23 PM by help.net | with 1 comment(s)
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Dropdown menu
Tim Marman replied to my issue on Dropdown controls:

As Pascal discovered the hard way, Internet Explorer always stacks something like a SELECT drop-down list on top of a normal HTML element, regardless of what z-index you use for each of them.

That is because SELECT (and a handful of other elements) are windowed controls, and, basically, all windowed controls will always paint themselves on top of a windowless control. Even the highest windowless element is always going to be under the lowest windowed control.

So why with Netscape and IE for Macintosh, I don't have the problem ?

One solution you mentioned - though perhaps not the most elegant - is trying to detect any such windowed controls and hide them. This may be a reasonable solution if you're only having these in one place and you know exactly what windowed controls might be there. It becomes a bit more complicated if you have to try to detect that.

That's probably the solution I am going to implement, my dropdown lists controls are always at the same spot. The thing I have to test is that the menus are client-side and the controls obviously server side, so surely some headache with Javascript.

You have a few other options though. If you are targeting IE5.5+, you can use the popup object. The only caveat here is that you can't have form elements in there, because the popup (and thus anything inside it) cannot gain focus.

Tim do you know some links on that. I received one or two but just to be sure I cover everything ;-)

Another solution is to use an IFRAME to house your popup. Apparently, in IE5.01+, the IFRAME is a unique control that can be both windowed and windowless, and will render as expected. 

Same than before, some links on that will be appreciated.

Hope this helps.

Yes Tim it give me some leads !

Posted: Mar 28 2003, 03:17 PM by help.net | with 1 comment(s)
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Macromedia Flash Player 6 for Pocket PC 2002


Macromedia Flash Player 6 for Pocket PC 2002 enables developers and publishers to quickly and easily deploy Macromedia Flash MX content and Rich Internet Applications for Pocket PC 2002 devices. Developers can deploy standalone Macromedia Flash applications using the Macromedia Flash Player 6 for Pocket PC.

This release includes the Pocket PC 2002 Content Developers Guide, Interface Design Policy Kit, as well as a set of optimized Macromedia Flash MX UI components for Pocket PC. Macromedia Flash Player 6 for Pocket PC 2002 is part of the Macromedia Mobile and Devices initiative to make PDA's, phones, televisions, and other consumer electronics accessible to Macromedia Flash developers and publishers.

Macromedia

Posted: Mar 28 2003, 11:15 AM by help.net | with no comments
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In-Place Editing of datagrid wih Images

I found this code on Sagas.Net very useful, since I have to include a graphics library in my project.

Posted: Mar 28 2003, 10:41 AM by help.net | with 2 comment(s)
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A thing that puzzles me...

I know it's probably easy but I can't figure out the solution.

I have a dropdown menu that running smoothly. the problem I have is that below the dropdown menu, done with a bunch of <DIV>, I also have a dropdown list.

As everybody know, there is an issue with IE 4+ where the dropdownlist is always sitting on top of a DIV , whatever the z-index you choose.

Obviously that's not the effect I want to achieve !.

Coalesys apparently seems to have solved the problem, I tried it works, but for some other reasons, I don't want use their solution. I rather prefer to build mine.

I know that I can use a simple trick: hide the dropdownlist when I activate the menu, but Coalesys control don't do that and I wonder how they achieve that.


Posted: Mar 28 2003, 10:38 AM by help.net | with 5 comment(s)
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SQL Query - update
I am still fighting, since two days now with this bloody stats that I suppose to give next monday.

Any help on that ?

The only I found for the moment is to use a link that Marcie send on a mailing list recently, SQLDudes.

Apparently a dead site, because they're talking about SQL 7 but with an interesting way of doing a pivot table.

The other idea I work on is to follow Marcie thoughts (what can we do without our Datagrid girl ;-)) and write some datatable, like master-details kind of stuff.

Whatever the solution, I swear I will give the solution to the whole world !
Posted: Mar 28 2003, 08:34 AM by help.net | with 1 comment(s)
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Portable Pioneer Adam Osborne dead at 64

 

Read on Yahoo News:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Adam Osborne, whose successes and failures pioneering the first portable computer became one of Silicon Valley's great cautionary tales, is dead at 64 after a long illness.

Sad news. Well I used to have of his fantastic portable at the time early 80's.

Posted: Mar 27 2003, 01:01 PM by help.net | with no comments
Portable Pioneer Adam Osborne dead at 64

 

Read on Yahoo News:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Adam Osborne, whose successes and failures pioneering the first portable computer became one of Silicon Valley's great cautionary tales, is dead at 64 after a long illness.

Sad news. Well I used to have of his fantastic portable at the time early 80's.

Posted: Mar 27 2003, 12:44 PM by help.net | with no comments
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