From http://www.flashguru.co.uk, via Chris Langreiter, the FlashMX event model.
Ok, the article should have been a few pages shorter. Someone should teach the author about the point of a metaphor. You can use a metaphor to introduce an unfamiliar topic in familiar terms, but then you drop the metaphor. 
I had run into this same bug. Glad it's been fixed.
Sysinternals looks like they have a ton of cool amazing utilities for Windows. Probably worth checking out.
I don't know what surprises me more. That we still have huge discussions on how to comment code, that Slashdot still posts things regarding commenting code, or that I'm sitting here reading it.
Oh, no. Stephen Joy Gould just died today. Thanks to Justin for the heads up.
And Slashdot reports this too.
I know there's a way to pass a parameter to flash using the <param> tags in HTML. I need to know what param tags Flash will understand, and then how to retrieve the parameter in Flash. Any assistence will be appreciated. 
Ok, the only way I found was to pass parameters in general was to pass them on the URL-line. So you'd have something like:
<param name="movie" value="movie.swf?key=value">
and
<embed src="movie.swf?key=value">
Then you can just access it through JavaScript (caugh, caugh... ActionScript), like so:
url = this._url;
pos = url.indexOf("?");
params = url.substr(pos+1);
param = params.split("=");
key = param[0]
value = param[1];
//This code only works for one parameter, of course.
I thought there was a way to pass parameters to flash in a general way through <param> tags, but I couldn't find anything showing that I could do that. If there is a way, someone please tell me.
Finally, the only thing I don't know about the parameter passing scheme above is what URL decoding needs to be done
Update: if you really wanted to be cheap, you can do it in 3 lines instead of 5 or 6 and just do:
url = this._url;
pos = url.indexOf("=");
value = url.substr(pos+1);
This is way less general than the first, but will give you exactly the same result for one parameter, if you just need the value
Updated 6-Jun-02: I don't know why I didn't link to the place I found this, but I didn't. I found the link again in an e-mail I had sent, so here it is at Flash Kit.com.
Via BlogSnob, Blogicon. Basically, a blogger's dictionary. Very neat. Only comment: "LOL" is much older than blogging.
This might be just what I need. Via LtU, Continuations Made Simple and Illustrated.
Here's Ehud's description:
An introduction to continuations using Python.
Starts by showing code in CPS, and only then talks about capturing the current continuation. Since call/cc is quite confusing, this seems like a good approach.
Glad he thinks call/cc is confusing too. I don't feel quite so bad for not understanding it yet. I get basically what continuations are supposed to be, but I wouldn't know how to use them, or really know what's going on when someone else uses them, let alone how they're implemented, which is almost as important.
Hopefully this article will give me the "aha".
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