Good morning. This entry is brought to you slightly earlier than usual thanks to the wonders of 'Tamper'.
I was woken up at 6.40 by a very loud alarm. I dozed, waiting for the owner to turn it off - as you do - only it didn't get turned off, because it turns out that the owner is me.
My burglar alarm had decided that it wanted to ring, and no matter what I did, I couldn't get it to shut the hell up. The little 'tamper' light is on, so I'm guessing a connection somewhere has gone ...
Well, the Flash work is nearly finished. I thought I'd escaped any screwy bugs this time round, but in the past 48 hours I've hit two new ones. I thought I'd write them up here in case it helps anyone else.
A curious arrangement of text fields, movieclips and buttons caused a text field to magically regain the input focus just after it lost it. In my case I was hiding the text field straight after, and this resulted in button clicks failing.
The only solution I could find was to use Selection.setFocus to manually set ...
There's an electrician here to fix my burglar alarm. It's been going off for about 5 minutes now. I'm standing right next to it in case he wants me to turn it off again. My ears hurt.
Update: Turns out that whoever originally installed it snapped a couple of centimeters off the end of the plastic anti-tamper button, and stuck a bit of cable flex on the end to extend it. First cold night after the summer must have made it contract - when the sun came up that morning, it flopped off the end and triggered the ...
PlusNet just e-mailed me to let me know they forgot to take my money this month. They apologised profusely.
No, no, that's quite alright. Any time.
Andrew just pointed me at www.ie7.com...