Flash Scrollpain.

This could be MM's greatest invention or the worst. Whichever it is, it is a pain to use, as i've heard from many of my peers.

There are a couple of key points you have to do before scrollpane will do what's supposed to do:

1. Create an empty movie clip, create linkage of course, say "Empty"
2. If loading a big image inside, you have to call invalidate() at the END of the loading. (say onLoadInit())
3. Point the contenpath of the pane to Empty: s.contentPath = "Empty";
3. to load the image (or anything) in, you have to create an empty movieclip (container) by s.content.createMovieClip("cont", 1);

NOTE: it have to be s.content. Otherwise it'll ignore you.

4. NOW, it's time to load in your stuff.

Well... i've invested many hours into it before, now once again, when i come back to it, it's still not a smooth process.... *sigh*... MM got some great minds in flash.

Raptors on raid 0

A little break from all the flashy material here. Just got 2 raptors 160Gig from dell. Didn't believe it at first, for only $165 i can get a raptor, while they are normally over $300 a piece. And the dell is giving me for $165 CAD! Amazing... anyway, after 2 weeks of waiting, they are here. But having them on raid 0 is great but the path of installing xp on them is not only troublesome but also filled with pitfalls. First... you HAVE to use F6 to get slipstream the raid driver in. Second, the driver have to come from the legacy directory under the sataide directory of the nforce driver package. If you use the regular one, xp will install, but right after it finishes installing, it'll stuck in a reboot loop. Have tried installing on a partition created by xp, on a partition built by PM 8 first. Still stuck. And then finally read a post that the drivers have to be from the legacy directory.

But man... although i had to go through all kinds of iteration trying to install, but each installation just confirms further how fast raptors can make the installation. Start to finish < 15mins. It's that fast.