Peter Velichkov's Blog

First of all let me apologize for not blogging in a while but I’ve been working on couple of interesting projects after which it was time for deserved vacation on the BlackSea’s beaches.

Anyway I needed a better looking horizontal slider for one of the projects and all of my googling got me nothing reasonable (most of the tutorials were for changing the Thumb and leaving the default TrackHighlight) so I had to figure out something. Here is my horizontal slider, it is pretty basic but you can use it as a base for your needs. Corner Radius and Background Gradients are set via CSS, width and height are flexible too. Check the example and get the source code.

After bumping my head against the monitor for couple of minutes i have successfully installed Adobe Flex Builder Linux Public Alpha on my Debian Unstable Linux. Here is the procedure:

1. wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flex/\
flexbuilder_linux/flexbuilder_linux_install_a1_100207.bin

2. apt-get install eclipse sun-java5-bin

3. update-alternatives –config java
(set /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/java to be used)

4. run the installer

Enjoy