Vista’s centenium bug

What do you think of this bug of Vista (ultimate)? The calendar fails to show years higher than 2099 (it doesn’t allow you to set one either, although the clock can go to that date easily [see the comments on the picture])

OleView

To examine typelibraries (say included in an ActiveX control / .ocx file), you can use the classic OleView tool:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5233b70d-d9b2-4cb5-aeb6-45664be858b6&DisplayLang=en

 

OleView hanging on Vista? Solution is simple, see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/176938 (note, that according to another blog post the solution is other: to run it from a non-elevated command prompt – usually with Vista you’d expect to need to run something older with an elevated command prompt, strange, but do try it if nothing else works [or also try running from a non-admin account])

 

 

Delphi (6+): File not found: ‘DesignIntf.dcu’

A mental note about something of the past that I might be faced against in the future:

 

If you get the message

File not found: ‘DesignIntf.dcu’

at Delphi 6+, make sure you split your code in a runtime and a designtime-only package and put all component/property editors and anything Delphi IDE related into the designtime-only package, as explained at:

http://dn.codegear.com/article/27717 

 

for an example see JEDI-QuickTime (QuickTime API port to Delphi), the packages QuickTimeComponents and QuickTimeComponents_Design (it was a single package that had to be split to two to compile at Delphi6+). Luckily I had noted there the solution cause I needed it for my QT4All project (VCL and ActiveX controls for QuickTime) that builds on my JEDI-QuickTime opensource core.

tweening using ActionScript, Animation using CSS and JavaScript

Some interesting stuff:

http://www.robertpenner.com/easing/

 

see the “Equations visualizer” link, you select a function there and then click somewhere away from the ball for the ball to move there using the selected function

 

he also has a free book chapter about it online there, plus can download the code as actionscript

 

found the link at

http://ajaxian.com/archives/animatorjs-animations-using-css

(mentioning there that this code is also ported to MooTools/javascript)

which discusses

http://berniecode.com/writing/animator.html

a very cool and easy to use javascript+CSS animation library (see the CSS-transition examples near the end of the page)

 

Windows Live Writer

Here’s a very interesting tool to author blog entries: Windows Live Writer

Still in beta, but works with various blogging services, not only MS ones and can detect the style of your blog to allow editing your blog entry as it will appear at your blog (WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get)

Fix: To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this webpage from running scripts …

While creating an scripted html page locally and previewing it, if using IE7 you’ll get the annoying “”To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this webpage from running scripts …” message all the time, needing to right click it every time and select to allow scripts (without option to remember it for that specific local page/file).

An easy solution is to add the following line (as is) to the first line (or the second one if you have a <!DOCTYPE …> at the 1st line) of your HTML page:

<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->

for more information see:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537628.aspxWarning: if you put the same HTML page online on the web you must first remove this special HTML comment, else any Javascript code the page uses won’t work when someone visits the page from their web browser.