I was just looking at the new Ghostwire components, the Sliding Panel and the Tree component and was delighted to see that the tree component implements an automatic horizontal scrollbar. It weighs in at 18kb and performs beautifully in the online sample application.

It is interesting to note, regarding the automatic horizontal scrollbar, that in response to my criticism in my Ultrashock tutorial on the lack of automatic horizontal scrolling in the Macromedia tree component, the issue was labeled a "fact of life", with the suggestion that an acceptable workaround was to hard-code a horizontal scrollbar of a given ratio.

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I was recently trying to download the Flash player for Pocket PC (for an Ipaq 5550 running Windows Mobile 2003) and had a terribly hard time finding the link to download it.

Here, for the restless (or frustrated) among you, is a direct link to the correct download page for the Flash 6 Player for Pocket PC.

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I am very happy to announce that we are now accepting proposal submissions for the MX Europe conference to be held in September.

Currently confirmed speakers, apart from myself, include, among others, Allen Manning from Prismix and Ben Forta, Nigel Pegg, Tim Buntel and Waldo Smeets from Macromedia.

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Tim held a wonderful session at the joint London MMUG and UK CFUG meeting last night on the Open Source Paradigm Shift.

It was a great honor to get to meet and talk with one of the great minds in our field and, based on audience comments following the event, everyone loved the event. Some very interesting issues were raised in the Q&A session at the end, on topics ranging from the future of Central to his thoughts on emerging Socialware applications.

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We have a very interesting joint London MMUG and UK CFUG meeting planned for this Thursday (February 19th). The champion of Open Source Software and publishing legend Tim O'Reilly is going to be coming down to talk to us about The Open Source Paradigm Shift.

Here's a brief introduction to the session he will be presenting:

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