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I was looking for a way to convert pixels to ems for a website project I was working on, and came across this conversion table which, I’m sure, will be a useful reference to you if you ever need to convert pixels to points or ems (or percentage).

In case you don’t know, using pixel units to set font sizes is of bad practice; use ems or % units instead to display fonts on the monitor, and points for printing.

HTH

Well, kinda late, but I wish you all a Happy New Year!

This year, I want to blog more. And to accomplish this, I’ll be managing my time better. It won’t be easy but I’ll do it.

Okay, now on to today’s tip.

Because I’m kinda rusty in ActionScript, one of my goals is to develop more Flash applications.

Anyway, here I’ll give you a very simple example on how you can retrieve the value of a Flash DataGrid cell. I had to do something like this at my job, and I had to spend quite some time doing some research to figure this out. This tip, hopefully, will save you some time.

Ah! I’m assuming you already have some flash/actionscript experience, so I’ll keep this as short as possible. Read the rest of this entry »