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Posts Tagged ‘Bugs’

Fix for buggy Flash TextField selection (on mouse leave)

In Weblog on 24 September 2008 tagged as3, Bugs, Code, Flash with no comments

Today's post is about tiny details.

I've noticed a frustrating problem with text in Flash that I've finally managed to find a workaround for. I'm testing in Mac OS X using Firefox 3 and Flash 9, but I've seen it on other systems too, and recently had help reproducing this bug from our client at MSNBC, so I'm pretty sure it's widespread.

Since this is a fairly esoteric issue that will only bother Flash programmers, I'll continue only in the full version of this post.

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In Imported, Uncategorized, Weblog on 9 August 2005 tagged Bugs, Hardware, Language, Nokia, SMS, Software with 1 comment

I can reliably crash my new Nokia 6230i, with overuse of ellipsis in the SMS editor. If I end a message with a trailing off thought (like I never do, right...) and press down in order to jump to the top of the message to re-read it, the UI freezes and the phone resets itself about 10 seconds later. That shouldn't happen, should it?

In other news, the 6230i is an improvement on the 8310 because its T9 predictive text dictionary can spell "custard". This pleases me greatly, as does the fact that efficiency and deficiency are T9 twins. Simple pleasures...*

* See?!? I can't help it... This is a problem.