Slick Adobe AIR application, Pixus.
Can be used for measuring screen UI.
Category / Software
Field level help — or hindrance?
I found the technique intriguing, but troubling in implementation. The problem I had in particular the way it completely obscured the content underneath each field (there was help for every field). I would have liked if it had only covered up the fields below the active field with a mostly opaque help box. But, as it was it would cover a field I just entered.
Then, there was the auto tabbing. Stop that. I accidentally tabbed through the month field, and then couldn’t tab BACK into the month field because of broken logic in the “day” field.
Is web that easy …?
Don’t bother with the tinyurl link, unless you’re into yet another blog post/article about the future of twitter.
How to set Internet Explorer 8 View Source Tool/Editor
IE8 includes a new syntax highlighting View Source tool similar to what is available in other web browsers. However, you may not want to use the built-in, view-only tool. It’s easy to change.
1)
Start Internet Explorer 8 if it isn’t already started. Within IE8, click the Tools menu, then select Developer Tools (or just press [F12]).
2) Then, from the developer tools, select File, Customize Internet Explorer View Source, and then Other….
A file open dialog is displayed. Navigate to the application you want to use … for example Visual Studio 2008:
That’s it!
Note (how to completely reset Internet Explorer 8 View Source option):
When I first installed IE8, after having installed earlier builds of IE8 (beta and RC), I wasn’t able to reset the view source option back to the Default Viewer. (I’ve later noticed that even after selecting Default Viewer, it never actually leaves the Default Viewer option selected, even if that is the current option). After some registry hunting, you may need to clear out a registry setting that is incorrectly set.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\View Source Editor\Editor Name
The Key’s (Default) value was set to Notepad on my machine, which would cause IE8 to always use Notepad to view source, even though I wanted to use the built-in view source option. I cleared the value (but did not remove the key) and everything began working as normal again. Using the menu option within the developer tool’s in IE8 does not appear to set this value correctly, even though it is used as a potential supplying key/value.
Hope this helps someone!
Holy Intimidation Editor-Man!
I’ve been looking into some programmer editor choices again, this time downloading some that have been recommended (and a few that weren’t). I’ve tired of the clunky feeling and most recently the crashing of Notepad++, and decided I was willing to pay for an editor if it was reasonable overall (and of all things, STABLE!).
Tonight, I’ve downloaded Ultra Edit 14.20.
The first impressions – scared:
I’ve counted 107 top level places / functions / buttons visible on this screen. I believe during setup I selected the “Web Programmer” mode as the default.
I know, I shouldn’t let the little things bother me – but I’m not impressed with their concept of “tabs”:
The tabs don’t contain the content. They’re just an illusion (just good old SysTabControl32 from the common controls library). (Plus, they take up more space vertically because of this odd implementation choice). When that toolbar is undocked:
First impressions – not so good. I’m so overwhelmed by the UI that I don’t feel like trying to even explore the multitude of options presented. Uninstalled UltraEdit. Moving on to next option.