Come on, brother computer, do us proud!

After getting home, I finished putting together the computer I use at school. The day before yesterday I was using it at home when the mouse suddenly died — the scroll wheel lost its scrolling function for no reason and turned into a free-spinning wheel… I swapped in the old mouse from home, and it worked. ^_^ Yesterday morning, the mouse pad was so dusty that the optical sensor couldn’t track properly, so I tossed the mouse pad off to the side to cool down. Yesterday evening, the replacement mouse died too — the wheel rolled, the left and right buttons clicked, but it wouldn’t move. Looked like it had been hit with a paralysis spell… No choice — I went out that night and bought a new mouse…

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Fixing the Fanfou AIR Client "Acting Up" Issue

Ever since I added the minimize-to-tray feature last time, I’ve been hearing about one “freak-out” paranormal event after another — you type in your own username and password, and the login info th...

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FLASH tutorial website completed

Today, the last day of June, I finally finished the Baobao task ^_^ Happy~ Even though it was ASP work, I still came away with some experience. For the next month I’m going all-in on developing the...

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Funny keyword search

Whoa — today I was looking at my site’s traffic analytics report, and one of the search keywords was “air FileStream, there’s an example of reading and writing Xml”. I was baffled: someone searchin...

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Diablo 3 demo video

Another even more exciting video has surfaced! The game looks a lot like . The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment. I hope it turns out far better than Titan Quest, though I do...

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I'm home

I plan to wrap up Baobao’s online testing system quickly, and hurry up to build out the e-magazine system backend and other features! Along the way, XFlvPlayer, and if I have time, rewrite the Fanf...

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Bill Gates officially retires

At 12:00 Beijing time on June 27, 2008 (00:00 US Eastern Time on June 27), Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates officially retired today. Related reports: Bill Gates officially retires For det...

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Sharing Practical Code for Minimizing an AIR App to the System Tray (Windows)

Fanfou 1.7 released, sharing part of the code for the newly added minimize-to-system-tray feature:

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AIR apps and the taskbar, system tray, Dock

Reflection: I was too lazy — too lazy to check the official docs for how to minimize to the tray. As it turns out, AIR had this designed in all along. See the official AIR document DEV_GUIDE_FLASH, <Chapter 13: Taskbar icons>. Let me study it now, and put together a Chinese doc along the way to atone. Overview: About taskbar iconsMany operating systems provide a taskbar where applications can display a small icon representing themselves. ADOBE AIR exposes an interface for interacting with an application’s taskbar icon through the NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon property. AIR creates the NativeApplication.nativeApplication.icon object automatically. The type of this object is either SystemTrayIcon or DockIcon, depending on the operating system.

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Fanfou AIR Client 1.7 Update Released

Supports minimizing to the system tray: clicking the minimize button no longer takes up space in the taskbar — it minimizes to the system tray instead. Thanks for your support. Online install URL C...

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Word is that Diablo 3 is about to see the light of day

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Building XFlvPlayer

It’s been a long time since I touched AIR. Baobao’s ASP project is finally nearing its end, and I’m getting ready to dive back into AIR development. Next, I’ll find some time to work on XFlvPlayer,...

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Rise of Nations screenshot

The final stretch of my school days in Changzhou. These past few nights I’ve been playing RN with Xiong and Niu. Here are the screenshots — our skills should be enough to take on the hard AI now. S...

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Yo, Chinese! AIR1.1 is out!

Yesterday morning, AIR auto-updated and installed itself in Chinese~ At the time I had no idea AIR 1.1 was released that very day. So exciting. Adobe AIR lets you keep your favorite web apps with y...

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Downloading and Installing PV3D Before Use

I got drawn in by PV3D and decided to give it a try from scratch. I’m recording the download and installation process here. A thought: there really isn’t much material on this out there. Install TortoiseSVN: Go to the page http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads Download the appropriate TortoiseSVN and install it (a reboot is required).

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