I have had my 2 new Viewsonic VX2025wm monitors working nicely with my eVGA 7600GT video card. The 2 monitors where hocked up through the DVI connection, but little did I know about DVI connections and the problems with devices. It happened after I played some games over at my cousin’s house. While there I had to hook up my computer to an old samsung CRT. I had to go into Windows VGA mode that night to get that working. When I came...

The MenuBar and Menu components of the Flex2 framework are nice tools in creating standard business applications. As you look through the examples located in the documentation you might find some issues with the <menuitem/> model attributes. You can define the menuitem’s nodes with the ability to show a check mark or radio dot next to the menuitems. This is done through the attribute “type”. If you click on these...

I am posting about this old issue because of the number of times I have to fix this problem. Windows Server 2003 does not have a mime-type for the extension “.flv”. This causes a lot of headaches when you believe your Flash video application should work but doesn’t. There is a Adobe tech note located here. In the Adobe tech note it tells you to use “flv-application/octet-stream”. This will work but if for some...

(updated 2006.06.16 thanks to Mark) I just finally put all the recent codenames together. I have known of Zorn since Flex Builder 2 was first talked about. But I did not know that Flash Player 9 (and previously 8.5 betas) is called Zaphod. And the next version of Flex (Flex 2) is called Mistral. So we have: Zorn – Flex Builder 2 Mistral – Flex 2 Zaphod – Flash Player 9 Blaze – Flash 9 Check out what the wikipedia...

I have been working with a component that loads FLV video and SWF animations. The component is sometimes CPU intensive because of the FLV video and SWF animations used. The custom media controller is created in both Flex and Flash (MTASC and Eclipse). The flash version was used in many more custom integration situations. One such case was a floating iframe/div over a existing web site. We started testing the CPU usage using Windows...