Yep. I dropped my Macbook Pro on Friday.
It was in my notebook computer protecting backpack, so the major damage was averted...but it fell right off the stage at the church where I had set the backpack while helping one of the boys get their coat on.
It did sustain an injury to the right front corner...right above the DVD drive. It bent the metal pretty bad in that one spot. I took a hammer to it and you can barely even tell it was damaged now. Amy was pretty surprised when she heard me hammering and said, "What's that noise?" ...to which I replied, "it's just me hammering on my Mac." "You're what!?!" The DVD drive still works...just now tested it.
I'll post a picture first chance I get. You'd think I'd be pretty upset as much as I love this computer, but surprisingly, I'm over it. It's just a computer. Only a tool to accomplish a goal...not the goal itself. I think I'm growing out of some of my old materialistic ways. Yay me! (Still working on the humilty struggles, hehe)
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Adobe Spry Replaces Pop-up Menu
Ok...so this post isn't for my typical reader, but I've been going crazy the past couple of days so I thought I would post here in case anyone else is having the same problems.
In Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 (and MX), to make a pop-up menu from an image on a web page was very easy, using the behaviors pallet. In my opinion it worked well and, well, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. In Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, they fixed it. They changed technology to something called a Spry that works with Ajax. And with that, they depreciated the pop up menu tool. The only problem is, the way the Spry technology works, it won't put the pop up in the right spot (at least I'm not smart enough to get it to work). So, if you want to do what I'm trying to do, you have to send your image out to Fireworks...and even then it doesn't work very well.
Having said all of that, I went back to my version 8 and created a pop up. Below is the script for anyone who needs it:
[blogger is messing with the code. Click here to download it in a text file format.]
Here's a sample of how it works (note: menu links don't go anywhere).
Disclaimer: I make no warranties and provide no support should this not work. I can tell you that the code is copy/pasted directly from Dreamweaver 8 and has no bugs that I'm aware of.
The funny thing is once you drop all of this into your document, CS3 will allow you to edit it using the depreciated menu item under the behaviors pallet. I'm usually Adobe's biggest fan (I live in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, & Dreamweaver), but when I ran across this problem, I have to say I was very disappointed. I'm fine if they want to move to a new technology...but leave the old tricks in there for us old dogs.
In Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 (and MX), to make a pop-up menu from an image on a web page was very easy, using the behaviors pallet. In my opinion it worked well and, well, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. In Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, they fixed it. They changed technology to something called a Spry that works with Ajax. And with that, they depreciated the pop up menu tool. The only problem is, the way the Spry technology works, it won't put the pop up in the right spot (at least I'm not smart enough to get it to work). So, if you want to do what I'm trying to do, you have to send your image out to Fireworks...and even then it doesn't work very well.
Having said all of that, I went back to my version 8 and created a pop up. Below is the script for anyone who needs it:
[blogger is messing with the code. Click here to download it in a text file format.]
Here's a sample of how it works (note: menu links don't go anywhere).
Disclaimer: I make no warranties and provide no support should this not work. I can tell you that the code is copy/pasted directly from Dreamweaver 8 and has no bugs that I'm aware of.
The funny thing is once you drop all of this into your document, CS3 will allow you to edit it using the depreciated menu item under the behaviors pallet. I'm usually Adobe's biggest fan (I live in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, & Dreamweaver), but when I ran across this problem, I have to say I was very disappointed. I'm fine if they want to move to a new technology...but leave the old tricks in there for us old dogs.
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