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Drupal Aggregator

Alexis Wilke — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:25:46 +0000

The default Aggregator Drupal module does not work very well. There are several problems with the Drupal Core module, one of which we have not fixed in our version (i.e. the flatness of the item table.)

There is a list of the known issues and our comments and whether we fixed the problem:

Problem	Solution in m2osw's version of Aggregator
Missing XML marker	The <?xml ... ?> marker is missing from some RSS feeds, add it as required
Spurious ...

Snap! Form Country Component

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:28:10 +0000

Creating a Country Component

The Snap! Form feature is useful to create a form that your visitors fill up with information that you can then access in your website submissions and receive in an email.

When you want to ask the user to enter the name of their country, you can offer a freestyle text field. The problem with those is that people can enter anything they want...

Only add identifiers and optionally numbers to my headers

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:02:29 +0000

Proposition

The Table of Contents module uses the headers to get generated. Each header gets a unique identifier when none were assigned manually. The Table of Contents module uses the text between the start and end tags as the title to show in the table of contents.

Very good!

Now, you may not want the Table of Contents itself, but you like the idea to have identifiers in all your headers. This can be useful to create in-page links (a link with an anchor, i.e. #some-name at the end of your URL.) It is generally annoying to have to enter the identifiers by hand for each header and you may

Discuss This! module Known Issues

Alexis Wilke — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:02:29 +0000

The module works and is secure, however, there are problems difficult to circumvent. The following lists them. If you can help fixing some them, you'll be more than welcome!

Reordering the Comments on your Node

It is possible to reorder the node fields using the CCK module. If the Discuss This! comments do not appear exactly where you'd expect them to be, try using the the CCK module:

Download the CCK module
Install the CCK module
Go to Administer » Content management » Content types
Click on Manage content fields next to the node type you are trying to ...

Insert Node Known Issues

Alexis Wilke — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:47:34 +0000

The following are problems that have not been resolved and will probably not be.

Tag not transformed

At times, you enter the tag as in [node:123 cck=title] and it is not converted by the filter.

There are 3 common reasons for this to append:

You did not select the filter in your Input formats;
You did not select the format that uses the filter in that node; or
There is a syntax error in the tag.

The 3^rd one is certainly the most likely explanation once you made sure that the filter was effectively selected for that node. In many cases, it will be the missing semi-colon

Cell Phones now open to telemarketers!

Alexis Wilke — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:57:14 +0000

That's it! The phone commissioners have finally decided that it's OK for telemarketers to call cell phones and try to sell you their products and services.

Try

Alexis Wilke — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:55:22 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Control

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

143

Action Structure:

unsigned char     f_try_reserved : 5;
unsigned char     f_catch_in_register : 1;
unsigned char     f_finally : 1;
unsigned char     f_catch : 1;
unsigned short    f_try_size;
unsigned short    f_catch_size;
unsigned short    f_finally_size;
if(f_catch_in_register == 0) {
string                   f_catch_name;
}
else {
unsigned char    f_catch_register;

}

Action Length:

-1 byte(s)

Action Stack:

n.a.

Action Operation:

try { ... }
catch(name) { ... }
finally { ... }

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Throw

Declare a try/catch/finally block.

This has the behavior of the action script:

	try { ... }
	catch(name) { ... }
	finally { ... }

In version 7, there are no definition of exceptions in the ActionScript interpreter. However, you can write functions that Throw.

The semantic of the try/catch/finally block is very well defined in ECMA 262 version 3 (see pages 87/88).

Set Property

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:57:58 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Movie

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

Action Structure:

<n.a.>

Action Length:

0 byte(s)

Action Stack:

pop 2 (a), pop 1 (s)

Action Operation:

a₁ := pop();
a₂ := pop();
s₃ := pop();
s₃[a₂] = a₁;

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Get Member

Get Property

Set Member

Pop a value from the stack representing the new property value.

Pop the name of the property to be changed. Note that the property scheme is from version 4 and as such the property name can be represented by a number. Older version actually only accepted floating point numbers.

Finally, pop the name of the object where the specified field property is modified.

The following is the list of currently accepted properties or fields for the Get Property and the Set Property actions. Note that the properties can be specified with either an integer (type 7, requires V5.0+) or a single precision floating point (type 1, V4.0 compatible). And since strings are automatically transformed in a value when required, one can use a string to represent the property number (type 0). It works with a double value, I even tested a Boolean and null and it works. Obviously it isn't a good idea to use these. The default should be a single precision float. Please, see the Push Data action for more information about data types.

WARNING:

Adobe is trying to phase out this functionality. It is very likely not working in ABC code and it is not necessary since objects have member functions that can be used for the exact same purpose and it is a lot cleaner to use those instead.

Float	Decimal	Name	Comments	Version
`0x00000000`	0	x	x position in pixels (not TWIPs!)	4
`0x3F800000`	1	y	y position in pixels (not TWIPs!)	4
`0x40000000`	2	x scale	horizontal scaling factor in percent (50 — NOT 0.5 — represents half the normal size!!!)	4
`0x40400000`	3	y scale	vertical scaling factor in percent (50 — NOT 0.5 — represents half the normal size!!!)	4
`0x40800000`	4	current frame	the very frame being played; one can query the root current frame using an empty string ("") as the name of the object; note that the first current frame is number 1 and the last is equal to the total number of frames; on the other hand, the Goto instruction expects a frame number from 0 to the number of frames - 1	4
`0x40A00000`	5	number of frames	total number of frames in movie/sprite/thread	4
`0x40C00000`	6	alpha	alpha value in percent (50 — NOT 0.5 — means half transparent)	4
`0x40E00000`	7	visibility	whether the object is visible	4
`0x41000000`	8	width	maximum width of the object (scales the object to that width)	4
`0x41100000`	9	height	maximum height of the object (scales the object to that height)	4
`0x41200000`	10	rotation	rotation angle in degrees	4
`0x41300000`	11	target	return the name (full path) of an object; this can be viewed as a reference to that object	4
`0x41400000`	12	frames loaded	number of frames already loaded	4
`0x41500000`	13	name	name of the object	4
`0x41600000`	14	drop target	object over which this object was last dropped	4
`0x41700000`	15	url	URL linked to that object	4
`0x41800000`	16	high quality	whether we are in high quality mode	4
`0x41880000`	17	show focus rectangle	whether the focus rectangle is visible	4
`0x41900000`	18	sound buffer time	position (or pointer) in the sound buffer; useful to synchronize the graphics to the music	4
`0x41980000`	19	quality	what the quality is (0 - Low, 1 - Medium or 2 - High)	5
`0x41A00000`	20	x mouse	current horizontal position of the mouse pointer within the Flash window	5
`0x41A80000`	21	y mouse	current vertical position of the mouse pointer within the Flash window	5
`0x46800000`	16384	clone	this flag has to do with the depth of sprites being duplicated	4

Set Member

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:49:42 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Objects

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

Action Structure:

<n.a.>

Action Length:

0 byte(s)

Action Stack:

pop 2 (a), pop 1 (o)

Action Operation:

a₁ := pop();
a₂ := pop();
o₃ := pop();
o₃[a₂] = a₁;

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Get Member

Get Property

Set Property

Call Method

Pop a value a₁ representing the new member value.

Pop one string or integer a₂ representing the name of the member to modified or create.

Finally, pop an object reference o₃.

If the member a₂ doesn't exists yet, create it.

Finally, sets the object member a₂ to the value a₁.

Declare Dictionary

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:42:32 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Objects

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

136

Action Structure:

unsigned short		f_count;
string		f_dictionary[f_count];

Action Length:

-1 byte(s)

Action Stack:

n.a.

Action Operation:

<n.a.>

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Push Data

Declare an array of strings that will later be retrieved using the Push Data action with a dictionary lookup. There can be a maximum of 65534 strings. The visibility of a dictionary is within its DoAction or other similar block of actions. Note that you should have only one Declare Dictionary. The dictionary is visible from everywhere in the DoAction.