Vacheslav Starikov's

Archive for March, 2010

Some time ago, I needed to get Flash Movie sizes inside of my C# code. I googled and I found some great examples of how I can do it. It was Mike Swanson’s example project called FlashTools. I downloaded it and stated to use. While I was using this code I found a little bug that was occured depending of regional settings in the system. An error occured when FlashTools library tryed to convert String to Single. When I used English locale everything was going OK but when I changed the locale I got “Input string was not in a correct format”. A fix was very simple, I just passed the InvariantCulture as the second parameter of Convert.ToSingle method.
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Today I had a problem with IE8. Compatibility Mode for IE7 didn’t work when I was working with the Artisteer generated theme that I was improving by hands. The tag order does matter but I have never thought it would.

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Hi everybody! I’ve just had a discussion of how to test for an emtpy javascript object. As a result, I have several code snippets and I want to share them with You.

Problem

alert({}==null); // false
alert({}=={}); // false
alert({}=={}); // false
alert({}==0); // false
alert({}==""); // false
alert({}==[]); // false
// etc :)

So, none of the expressions above can check for an empty javascript object.

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