CSS – part 3

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Apr 272004
 

I’m still trying to figure out Christian Nordbakk‘s skin, so I can convert it from .Text to b2e. Beginning from scratch with just a single HTML file and the CSS style is the way to go. I have the header right, the shadow/glow effect works, and what’s left is the leftmenu (that I want on the right) and the main content area.

Because I stripped all the table elements, things didn’t look good at first. Why did I strip table? Somewhere, someday, perhaps when I was drunk, I read on the internet that table is not a valid CSS 2.0 or XHTML 1.0 tag. However, now looking for some documentation again, I see that table is implemented in CSS 2.0 and in XHTML 1.0. What was I thinking? Tables make life a lot easier. Trying to position text with div and span is difficult, whereas the table tag seems to be made for weblog-pages 😉

This is the result sofar:

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ShellExecute problem found

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Apr 262004
 

I think I found the problem of my “hanging” ShellExecute. In my application I have a TRichViewEdit in which the user can do basic editing. If the user needs more, he presses the Word button, that will start Word with the appropriate document.

If I don’t edit in the TRichView first, and go straight to Word, any attempt to close Word normally fails. Taskmanager etc will work, but that will cancel all editing.
If I edit in the TRichViewEdit first, save it, and then open Word, things run smooth like a baby’s ass.

The difficult part is this: the TRichViewEdit REMOVES a graphic that is in the Header of the Word document. So I have 2 things to solve:

1: The removal of the picture
2: Word behaving strangely when the picture is still in the document

Sometimes, life is not so sweet….

 Posted by at 23:41

Y’Z Dock

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Apr 262004
 

If you’ve ever looked at a Mac or worked with it, you’ll know you miss the great application launcher (dock) it has when you work with Windows. There is one piece of software that mimics Mac’s dock and that’s Y’Z Dock. There is no current website anymore, since Apple seems to dislike the fact that this piece of software exists. But with the excellent help of Google, I found a link where you can download it. No need to install anything. Just unzip to a directory, and start the executable.

 Posted by at 13:32

Bee

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Apr 262004
 

The windows are closed here, but still there is a bee in my office! It makes a whole lotta noise, but I like it. It’s like working with the laptop in the garden 😀

 Posted by at 12:23

Delphi works great with MaxiVista

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Apr 262004
 

Today I finally downloaded and tested MaxiVista, the extend-your-desktop-with-networked-PC-screens tool. What I need to find out, is how to let the secondary display have no background, to speed things up. Although it is fast in its default configuration anyway.

Delphi works great with it. See the screenshot below.

See how windows automatically extends the PrintScreen-capture to include the extra desktop? Neat!

Update: the screenshot is garbled in FireFox, it looks good in IE. WTF?

 Posted by at 00:14

The Garden

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Apr 252004
 

Today we spend some time in the garden. W cleaning the windows and I made a little platform of stones so you can take of your shoes before entering the house. The garden is still one big pile of sand, you must know. We are trying to get a decent design from an architect, and if that fails, we will have to decorate the garden ourselves. But in the meantime, the wheather is getting better and better. The trees in the backyard (well, there’s only one in our backyard, the other 10 trees are officially not ours) are doing their utmost creating a green crown. Great, because that means we don’t have to buy sunshades or screens.

 Posted by at 21:35

b2evolution

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Apr 252004
 

As you can see in the post below, I modified b2e‘s configuration to be able to give the DIV tag the ALIGN attribute, which is disabled by default.

 Posted by at 21:04

Katja

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Apr 252004
 

Katja is hot, everybody on the net knows that. She appears in the Dutch Playboy again. You can preview the scans at SuperPimp (link removed due to referrer spam)!

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