squirrel_factory » Uncategorized http://www.flamingsquirrel.co.uk/blog Creative development Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:06:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Flex 3 default background colour http://www.flamingsquirrel.co.uk/blog/flex-3-default-background-colour/ http://www.flamingsquirrel.co.uk/blog/flex-3-default-background-colour/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:06:42 +0000 andy http://www.flamingsquirrel.co.uk/blog/?p=107 If you would like to change the default ‘blue’ of your Flex movie as it preloads:

Select Project > Properties > Flex Compiler and under the Additional compiler arguments add ‘-default-background-color #yourcolour’. So if you want a plain white background it would look like:

-locale en_US -default-background-color #FFFFFF

]]> http://www.flamingsquirrel.co.uk/blog/flex-3-default-background-colour/feed/ 0 Positioning a background image at the foot of the page http://www.flamingsquirrel.co.uk/blog/40/ http://www.flamingsquirrel.co.uk/blog/40/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:48:40 +0000 andy http://www.flamingsquirrel.co.uk/blog/?p=40 If you need to position a background image at the foot of a page you will realise its pretty tricky to align it right at the bottom.

Add the following to your stylesheet and hey presto!

html {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto;
}

]]> http://www.flamingsquirrel.co.uk/blog/40/feed/ 0 Missing image problem http://www.flamingsquirrel.co.uk/blog/missing-image-problem/ http://www.flamingsquirrel.co.uk/blog/missing-image-problem/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:42:31 +0000 andy http://www.flamingsquirrel.co.uk/blog/?p=39 I have often come across the problem of a missing image when developing a site.

The solution is simple.

<img src=”image.gif” width=”100″ height=”100″ onerror=”this.src=’error.gif’;”>

If the correct image doesn’t exist the image named error.gif will be used instead.

Credit goes to Rob Gonda for this tip.

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Result Description Entity Name Entity Number
" quotation mark &quot; &#34;
‘ apostrophe  &apos; (does not work in IE) &#39;
& ampersand &amp; &#38;
< less-than &lt; &#60;
> greater-than &gt; &#62;

ISO 8859-1 Symbol Entities

Result Description Entity Name Entity Number
  non-breaking space &nbsp; &#160;
¡ inverted exclamation mark &iexcl; &#161;
¢ cent &cent; &#162;
£ pound &pound; &#163;
¤ currency &curren; &#164;
¥ yen &yen; &#165;
¦ broken vertical bar &brvbar; &#166;
§ section &sect; &#167;
¨ spacing diaeresis &uml; &#168;
© copyright &copy; &#169;
ª feminine ordinal indicator &ordf; &#170;
« angle quotation mark (left) &laquo; &#171;
¬ negation &not; &#172;
­ soft hyphen &shy; &#173;
® registered trademark &reg; &#174;
¯ spacing macron &macr; &#175;
° degree &deg; &#176;
± plus-or-minus  &plusmn; &#177;
² superscript 2 &sup2; &#178;
³ superscript 3 &sup3; &#179;
´ spacing acute &acute; &#180;
µ micro &micro; &#181;
paragraph &para; &#182;
· middle dot &middot; &#183;
¸ spacing cedilla &cedil; &#184;
¹ superscript 1 &sup1; &#185;
º masculine ordinal indicator &ordm; &#186;
» angle quotation mark (right) &raquo; &#187;
¼ fraction 1/4 &frac14; &#188;
½ fraction 1/2 &frac12; &#189;
¾ fraction 3/4 &frac34; &#190;
¿ inverted question mark &iquest; &#191;
× multiplication &times; &#215;
÷ division &divide; &#247;

ISO 8859-1 Character Entities

Result Description Entity Name Entity Number
À capital a, grave accent &Agrave; &#192;
Á capital a, acute accent &Aacute; &#193;
 capital a, circumflex accent &Acirc; &#194;
à capital a, tilde &Atilde; &#195;
Ä capital a, umlaut mark &Auml; &#196;
Å capital a, ring &Aring; &#197;
Æ capital ae &AElig; &#198;
Ç capital c, cedilla &Ccedil; &#199;
È capital e, grave accent &Egrave; &#200;
É capital e, acute accent &Eacute; &#201;
Ê capital e, circumflex accent &Ecirc; &#202;
Ë capital e, umlaut mark &Euml; &#203;
Ì capital i, grave accent &Igrave; &#204;
Í capital i, acute accent &Iacute; &#205;
Î capital i, circumflex accent &Icirc; &#206;
Ï capital i, umlaut mark &Iuml; &#207;
Ð capital eth, Icelandic &ETH; &#208;
Ñ capital n, tilde &Ntilde; &#209;
Ò capital o, grave accent &Ograve; &#210;
Ó capital o, acute accent &Oacute; &#211;
Ô capital o, circumflex accent &Ocirc; &#212;
Õ capital o, tilde &Otilde; &#213;
Ö capital o, umlaut mark &Ouml; &#214;
Ø capital o, slash &Oslash; &#216;
Ù capital u, grave accent &Ugrave; &#217;
Ú capital u, acute accent &Uacute; &#218;
Û capital u, circumflex accent &Ucirc; &#219;
Ü capital u, umlaut mark &Uuml; &#220;
Ý capital y, acute accent &Yacute; &#221;
Þ capital THORN, Icelandic &THORN; &#222;
ß small sharp s, German &szlig; &#223;
à small a, grave accent &agrave; &#224;
á small a, acute accent &aacute; &#225;
â small a, circumflex accent &acirc; &#226;
ã small a, tilde &atilde; &#227;
ä small a, umlaut mark &auml; &#228;
å small a, ring &aring; &#229;
æ small ae &aelig; &#230;
ç small c, cedilla &ccedil; &#231;
è small e, grave accent &egrave; &#232;
é small e, acute accent &eacute; &#233;
ê small e, circumflex accent &ecirc; &#234;
ë small e, umlaut mark &euml; &#235;
ì small i, grave accent &igrave; &#236;
í small i, acute accent &iacute; &#237;
î small i, circumflex accent &icirc; &#238;
ï small i, umlaut mark &iuml; &#239;
ð small eth, Icelandic &eth; &#240;
ñ small n, tilde &ntilde; &#241;
ò small o, grave accent &ograve; &#242;
ó small o, acute accent &oacute; &#243;
ô small o, circumflex accent &ocirc; &#244;
õ small o, tilde &otilde; &#245;
ö small o, umlaut mark &ouml; &#246;
ø small o, slash &oslash; &#248;
ù small u, grave accent &ugrave; &#249;
ú small u, acute accent &uacute; &#250;
û small u, circumflex accent &ucirc; &#251;
ü small u, umlaut mark &uuml; &#252;
ý small y, acute accent &yacute; &#253;
þ small thorn, Icelandic &thorn; &#254;
ÿ small y, umlaut mark &yuml; &#255;
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