Marc-Antoine Ross February 25th, 2008 Add comment
In September, back at the Air Bus Tour in Toronto, I met Grant Skinner who presented his Spelling Plus Library. I recently found this new Spell Checker Component. While Bruce Deen doesn’t mention any performance data, there is a great feature I couldn’t find in SPL: a local dictionary. This component is a donation ware, don’t forget to help Bruce.
Marc-Antoine Ross February 20th, 2008 Add comment
It’s very hard to explain the subtilty of richness and usability sometimes, but life is good to me today as I stumbled upon a great example: Lovely Charts. Check how the application understands your actions to create new elements in the chart. Simple, effective, well done. Chapeau!
Marc-Antoine Ross December 18th, 2007 Add comment
Tonight, I went for the first time the monthly meeting of the Montreal Adobe User Group and must admit it was very interesting. Lee Anthony Sutton, LordAlex and Martin Arvisais managed to present different topics in a fresh and dynamic way; thumbs up.
Marc-Antoine Ross November 15th, 2007 Add comment
You’ll edit a system file, be careful.
If the file or folder doesn’t already exist, you need to create it. Here’s the easy way to do it in Terminal (easier, because Finder doesn’t let you see hidden files easily).
Open Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal) and type the following commands:
cd ~/LibraryIf the KeyBindings folder doesn’t exist in that folder, create it:
mkdir KeyBindingsMake or edit the DefaultKeyBinding.dict file:
vi KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dictPaste the following lines:
{
/* home */
"\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";
"$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:";
/* end */
"\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:";
"$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";
/* page up/down */
"\UF72C" = "pageUp:";
"\UF72D" = "pageDown:";
}Save the file. Now when you re-launch your applications, they should use the new Bindings.
Eclipse doesn’t follow anyone’s default key layout, it is standard based on the version you download… so basically to get this to work do this:
Eclipse -> Preferences -> General -> Keys
You will be able to remove the Binding for Text Start, Text End and respectively replace them for Line Start, Line End. I will let you understand that part by yourself, as you will find interesting shortcuts at the same time. Do the same with for the Shift-Home and Shift-End keys.
You should now have the home and end keys going to the beginning and end of the line.
Firefox still seems to have an issue…
Marc-Antoine Ross August 21st, 2007 Add comment
Here’s a good benchmark that compares several methods to load data into your RIA. It’s very interesting to see how Flex performs compared to Laszlo.
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