One of the problems using the flash date function is that if you need to manually test a time period and ’start’ from a certain time there really is no ‘built in’ function to force the date function not to use your system clock. I was getting frustrated that I could set the starting clock.  That would still work for me to see how either the sky was being set or how many stars would appear at night time, but I needed to keep the internal clock synced as I had a lot of time checks for star removal towards the early morning period. So I cam up with a solution which I will show you how.

As I really don’t care. Woopra does. But my flash header now cares as well! As I mentioned in the last flash post, I was striving for real time time sync with your current locations sunrise and sunset.  I really being trying to do this since the first incarnation of the flash header. Now it is a reality!

As you might have noticed by now, the butterfly in my flash header moves all over the stage without a clear “defining” path, which was the case here when I gave you an update on the season code. That has been scraped for a much better code.

As the lyrics to Twinkle Twinkle Littler Star go:

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.

This is now true for my flash header. After three days of looking for the perfect star animation and designing the very complex code that will add stars in intervals (or all at once if it has gotten to that point) or to remove the stars in intervals (or all of the stars if it has gotten to that point).

Time to give you another update on the flash header project for this time.

As you know for a while it’s been working where the time of day happens and updates every second. That’s one goal. The other was the sun/moon phases. That so far is unattainable at this point. I did however add another goal in the mix: Seasons.

So… in this is part of the new Woopra plugin for WordPress I am going to show you some new flash charts look. As I explained in my earlier post that the entire plugin has been converted into a PHP class format. This time after getting access to the wonderful new API (documentation is coming soon… I promise!) from Jad, I was able to re-do the flash charts and even fix up the code to use this new API so when it does go live, you can use the Woopra Analytics section.

The very first draft of the flash header for this site is now online! If you do not have Flash 10 installed, it will ask you to download Flash 10 and install it.

If you don’t have flash at all, you will get the basic image version. I have yet to convert the static image to the same height. So you are wondering how I got this done? Well read on to find out!