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Xcode Duplicate line

patrick — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:28:01 +0000

So I have started working in xcode, and the first thing I was missing was some key bindings for duplicating a line up or down like eclipse does.
I took a while to figure out how to do it. So here’s an explanation. (I’m using xcode 3.2)
Make a duplicate of the xcode keybindings set in the xcode preferences: (i named mine patrick

Close xcode

You should be able to find the file xode created in
/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/Application Support/Xcode/Key Bindings
for me it is called Patrick.pbxkeys

Edit this file with the property editor.
From the view menu select :
Show Strings as Non-lossy ASCII

Add 2 children as follows

Save, and open up xcode

ctrl+shift+uparrow should now duplicate the current line upwards
ctrl+shift+downarrow should now duplicate the current line downwards

happy coding

Microphone bug in as3?

patrick — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:05:10 +0000

[UPDATE]

Ok, so it really is a bug, Thnx Matt for the comment with the link:

“you need to pass a value of “-1″ to the getMicrophone() call to get the one you’ve chosen”

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Seems like there’s a bug in the As3 (or flash player 9) in the Microphone class.

I’m not able to switch between Audio-input devices using the Settings panel.
And Microphone.getMicrophone() always seems to get the First Audio-device,
and not the device the user has selected in the settings panel.

Try this:
do a Microphone.getMicrophone();
bring up the settings panel (through rightclick or code: Security.showSettings(SecurityPanel.MICROPHONE); )
switch audio-device.
Now, for me it’s still using the firts audio device, and NOT the one I just selected.

Can anyone confirm?

I’m using the latest Player. 9,0,64,0

Black Screen Visualizer for WMP

patrick — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:37:49 +0000

Last year I assembled my Media Center machine. Although I think the interface design is not optimal, I’ll never go back to having a separate TV, DVD an Audio System. One thing that bugged was not being able to turn off the monitor with the remote. When I’m playing music I don’t really need to see the mce interface. So this weekend I decided to figure out how to make a Visualizer plugin. I wanted to build a visualizer that visualizes… uhm .. NOTHING… Just a black screen so I won’t have to turn of my monitor.

So I downloaded the Windows Media SDK, read the help files and found a code sample. Unfortunately it didn’t work right away, because I’m using visual studio 2005. Searching msdn, I did find a way to convert the windowsmediaplugin wizard to VS 2005.

In the sample I just commented out the lines that did the visualizing, and changed the presets that came with it.
After building the solution, I got a dll that I could register on my MCE machine.

Sweet, now all it needs is some testing.