Animation Plan of Attack

I'm looking to do an effect where I use a company's logo (with a black center) as a transition. I'd like to have the logo enlarge until it looks as though individual pixels appear, but those pixels will turn out to be video clips. I was thinking of duplicating 25 clips or so to make it look like more since they would quickly be moved off-screen as the shot zoomed in on a single clip to start the next session.
Right now, I'm planning on an animation in photoshop with each frame enlarging, then fading in a layer with a patchwork over the original logo.
However, it occurred to me that with all the experience on this board, someone might have a better way of doing this.
Any suggestions for this effect? I have FCS2 as well as Shake and any advice would be appreciated.
Lawrence

It worked out great!
That was what I needed. Although I haven't finished the whole thing, it's definitely the answer I needed.
And, as I zoom in on the logo, I can use rendered clips of the replicated 16 because they will be even smaller.
So I will have the 16 which will be enlarged until they fill the screen. Then, the camera will turn and see all the clips laid out as a wall. But instead of sliding the camera forward, I will have the screens keyframed to start sliding across the screen, giving the viewer the feeling he is moving forward beside a wall of screens moving past him on his left.
From there, the camera can turn back to the screen and I will have already keyframed a full-res screen to be enlarged. This is going to allow me to get this animation done. Sorry if the question seemed remarkably silly, but I'm really pretty new to motion.
Thanks again for the help!
Lawrence

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4. update to 10.5.1
Sound OK? Feel free to give suggestions to help my slow Leopard OS.

I'm glad it worked out well.
The idea of starting in Safe Mode is that it runs a directory check and eliminates everything but Apple installed startup items, fonts other than System/Library and other items. It often helps to isolate an issue. (But not his time).
The re-install you did was probably best and easiest way to handle it. When you update use the 10.5.1 Combo Update This is a fuller install, as opposed to an incremental "delta" update (the one from software update) so it should overwrite any files may still be damaged or missing.
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HP Pavilion TX1000 Tablet PC - Replacing the fan (Qs and my plan of attack)

Alright, so I finally got my HP Pavilion TX1000 tablet PC that I mentioned about when I asked a week or two ago about the 3G module. It works quite well, even if it does show it's age, I'm happy with it. One thing I noticed about it was that it heats up quite a lot when sitting idle.
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Now, my question is, is it possible that laptop fans can be seize up in rare events? Don't shun me away and say "Oh no, it would never happen", because fans are moving parts and could seize up if subjected to a lot of heat. I know the TX1000 series are known for overheating woes, so I'm going to ask you this - In your experience, have you seen fans failing, and if so, could a seized motor be the cause?
I am going to follow this guide once the fan arrives (http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/hewlett-packard/8875-modding-tx1000-part-1-changing-thermal-compound...) because I heard that black paint on the heatsink assembly does nothing to help keep the CPU cool, and if I remove it, I can get a 5 - 10*C CPU temperature droppage. Which is good because I don't want it to be burning my hands if I'm using it to jot notes down!
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Should be able to answer your own question by physically trying to rotate the blades with a thin tool or blowing into the blades & if bearings good it should rotate easily.
bearings fail, fan motor/boards fail, mainboard control & power can also fail !
Most modern equipment has almost no real effort in proper thermal control so some modifications may help but you will be limited in what is achievable on a finished product.
Here in Asia we have done a lot of notebook cooling mod combo's such as vent increases, thermal shims, quality thermal grease & secondary 25 to 30mm 5v case venting fans with internal porting & baffles to help good airflow/heat extraction with great results in reducing overheating & component failure ...
Should be done at the factory !
For $10 of parts we reduced a custom dv2500 with T770 & Nvidea graphics by 25% & made the machine reliable & feel safe rather than a lap microwave ...
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Plan Of Attack......

Greetings...
I have been a professional videographer for close to 30 years. Mostly a shooter in the corporate/industrial and event arenas but I also edited on 3/4" tape and know the storytelling and pacing aspects of post...I can read waveform/vectorscopes. I am most proficient on Logic, as I am a musician. So I just got Final Cut Studio 7 but when I heard FCPX was coming out I put my learning on hold with 7.....I am not bad on 7( I have a ways to go) but I am a one man operation and don't forsee hiring myself out as an editor...So my question is Should I partition the drive and download FCPX or un-install and sell Studio 7 and forget learning it, or should push on with 7. I don't have any editing jobs right now but I know I need to add post to my services. I have 2 mini-dv cameras(not HD) but customers want HD so I have no problem buying new cameras with sd cards.....Interested in your thoughts........Thanks

FCP X will handle your media so that does not seem like a problem. One of the remaining things to look at would be whether you plan to work together with others who might use FCP 7. If you do all your work yourself, and have no need to bring in FCP 7 material, it seems like it might be okay. Then, while there are ways to workaround multicamera support in FCP X, it is not as easy as it was in FCP 7 ... so that might be an issue. Having said that, there are ways to do multicam in FCP X, and Apple has said they plan on having it in FCP X. I also am a one man post production setup, and I was at a convenient stopping place when I switched. I decided to learn FCP X because I considered that was the future. Despite the fact that the "leading edge" can become the "bleeding edge" for early adaptors, I made the plunge. While still learning, I am happy I did. The metaphor for working is different, and the tools are different, but I have not yet seen any show stoppers for doing complete projects as long as legacy stuff is not involved. IMHO. Best wishes.
stephen

Multiple instruments; same test. Best plan of attack?

I'm looking for some information on design structure dealing with multiple instruments that do the same thing but require different command sets. Specifically I have an application running tests via VISA GPIB using an Agilent PNA. My current application uses a queued state machine with two loops; one taking care of the GUI and another taking care of the states; works like a champ and is easy to add new tests. But I have been asked to migrate the current tests to different flavors of network analyzer specifically old school HP8510 and some non-hp gear. Some tests are very complicated and have a couple dozen steps with numerous sub vi's to take care of all the commands and data formatting. We do not want separate applications; I have to identify what is connected and sequence the test accordingly to attain the correct results.
I'm looking for links, suggestions, or recommended reading to deal with such things and to maintain maintainability.
What I have been able to find is hit and miss with some reading pointing towards using a separate state-loop for each instrument and others just added more and more states to existing state machine.
All opinions / ideas welcome.
-Chris

F1_Fan wrote:
Good suggestions.
SCPI is great but some of the instruments are 20 years old and things like getting bandwith numbers are more complicated in the older equipment. I'm still fighting with people to stop using low level GPIB commands and just use VISA.
My understanding of the replies lies in writing a subset of vi's for each piece of equipment while reusing the common commands (Like writing an overloaded function in .NET land?).
A simple flow diagram of what would occur would be as below if I'm understanding the suggestions -
- Front panel for user to select required test.
- Query what instruments are connected and decide if hardware is available to run such test.
- Using VI's libraries I will create to perform each test; select the proper set and run the test. (I would still use a QSM type design to easily facilitate changes down the road).
- Everything would be invisable to the end user; they are just selecting a test; all front panels will be standard regardless of instrument. They would only differ by the selected test.
Am I on the right track? I'm a VB.NET transplant trying to not get on the "wall of shame" of labview code. LOL.
-Chris
Hi Chris,
This is similar to a Q posted on LAVA earlier this week that can befound here. In that thread Aristos Queue (father of VLOOP LV OOP) outlined some classes to utilize Dynamic Dispatching (choose the sub-VI to run based on the class selected). Conciering your background, that thread may work for you.
Have fun,
Ben
Ben Rayner
I am currently active on.. MainStream Preppers
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Need GUI "plan of attack" suggestions

I'm looking for suggestions on going about a chess board gui. I want this to look nice, not cheaply done, since it will be used with several different side projects I am beginning to work on such as an correspondance chess client and notation converters.
I would prefer the pieces to be "drag and drop", all ideas are fine with me though. Resizeable is also desired.
I wasn't sure what the best way to go about it was as far as having many panels, or one big canvas, etc, etc. I haven't dealt with drag and drop with java before, so i'm really not sure what the best things to use are as far as the inner work or even the best type of images for it. Any suggestions will help.
A board functioning much like the one from games.yahoo.com/ch would be best.
It needs to be able to have custom positions built as well, and scroll through to earlier parts of the game, and possibly through different branches.
Any GUI experts out there know a good way of tackling this side of the project?

I'd probably make a GridLayout of panels. You can use a MouseListener
to tell which panel you're over for picking up/moving pieces. You can render
pieces as images on top of the panel, and drag/drop similarly to:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/images/doublebuffering.html
When they drop a piece, you can ask the listener what cell you're over,
erase your floating image, and dump it into the center of that cell.
Of course, that's with 20 seconds of thought.

What should be my plan of attack ?!?

I am trying to clean up my credit and raise my score so I am able to be debt free. I was 18 when I got credit cards and did not understand how they worked and a temporary job loss due to personal reasons but now I am employed and make 10/hr and average 30 hrs per week w/ I have $400 in savings. I have been a avid reader of this forum and decided it was time to post.  What should I get started with? & What cards should I get rid off
Credit INQ - 14 from 14’Credit Scores (via CK) - TU 561 , EX 557 UTLI - 38%   Collections \ CO SYNCB/WAL-MART - $564 Closed 1/14 CAPITAL ONE - $325   Closed 6/14   ( I pay $50/month to CA Firstsource Advantage )KOHL'S - $350 Closed 3/14JCP $228 Closed 5/14VICTORIA'S SECRET $263 Closed 8/14 ( CA- COLLINS ASSET GROUP LLC) ** Sent a PFD waiting for response from CA ** NCC BUSINESS SERVICES $2941 ( JOINT - Rental ) Open Accounts FINGERHUT $200 / $0 BAL Since 5/13US BANK Secured $300 / $150 BAL since 4/13 ( 3-60 DAY LATES & 2- 30 DAY LATES 13’-14’)* Wrote a Goodwill Letter for lates *Merrick Bank $200 / 150 BAL ( Paying this off next pay ) (* want to close this *)First Premier $300 / $114 BAL Since 12/14 ( *want to close this *)Credit One $300/ $162 BALAmerican Eagle $100/ $0 Since 6/13 ( CLD From $700 )

simonenadia wrote:
I am trying to clean up my credit and raise my score so I am able to be debt free. I was 18 when I got credit cards and did not understand how they worked and a temporary job loss due to personal reasons but now I am employed and make 10/hr and average 30 hrs per week w/ I have $400 in savings. I have been a avid reader of this forum and decided it was time to post.  What should I get started with? & What cards should I get rid off
Credit INQ - 14 from 14’Credit Scores (via CK) - TU 561 , EX 557 UTLI - 38%   Collections \ CO SYNCB/WAL-MART - $564 Closed 1/14 CAPITAL ONE - $325   Closed 6/14   ( I pay $50/month to CA Firstsource Advantage )KOHL'S - $350 Closed 3/14JCP $228 Closed 5/14VICTORIA'S SECRET $263 Closed 8/14 ( CA- COLLINS ASSET GROUP LLC) ** Sent a PFD waiting for response from CA ** NCC BUSINESS SERVICES $2941 ( JOINT - Rental ) Open Accounts FINGERHUT $200 / $0 BAL Since 5/13US BANK Secured $300 / $150 BAL since 4/13 ( 3-60 DAY LATES & 2- 30 DAY LATES 13’-14’)* Wrote a Goodwill Letter for lates *Merrick Bank $200 / 150 BAL ( Paying this off next pay ) (* want to close this *)First Premier $300 / $114 BAL Since 12/14 ( *want to close this *)Credit One $300/ $162 BALAmerican Eagle $100/ $0 Since 6/13 ( CLD From $700 )          I would recommend sending PFD to all the collections, hopefully some will work with you to have it deleted from your credit report.  Right now I wouldn't recommend closing any of your accounts, pay them off and try to stay under 1-9% UTL usage. Try gardening your current accounts until the baddies fall off. From now on try to pay on time whenever you can and don't apply for any more cards. Be patient, whats effecting your credit is the CO. Are any of them Derogatory?

Multiple Animations for a single MovieClip sprite

Ok, after hours of exhausting searching, and having to learn how to animate a simple sprite for the 100th time, I hope I might found I more specific, and better explained answer to my problem.
I'm trying to make a flash game, of course, and I want my main Player sprite to be able to play multiple animations based on specific input. So, a running right animation, a running left animation, a jump animation, and an attack animation.
At the moment, the most I can seem to achieve is to create a single timeline, with a default frame in the exact middle. Then when player holds left, it plays the previous frame, or scrolls backwards through the timeline. When the Right key is held, it plays forward from the default middle.
It's ugly and extremely limited. I've tried using the gotoAndStop() and gotoAndPlay() methods, but because the statement checking for the key being pressed is constantly being checked, it will stay on the frame chosen for those methods, rather than move forward along the time line.
I would greatly appreciate a better method for this, or a more specific tutorial to achieve the goal i'm looking for.
I've seen mention of the attachMovie() method, but I can not find an understandable explanation of how to properly use it in the way I desire.
essentially, the sprite will have the default standing frame while no keys are pressed. Then, if the right key is down, it plays the running right animation. When the left key is down, it plays the running left animation. When the jump key is pressed, it plays the jump animation. And when the attack key is pressed, it plays the attack animation.
I hope that's enough information and that it's understandable, if not, let me know what more you need to know and I'll do my best to explain it more.

You can do this a number of ways but I will try to explain the what I think is the easiest.
Step 1
Draw a box on the stage
Step 2
convert this into a movieclip (F8), name this myCharacter (or anything you want really), then press ok. Now select this movieClip and in the properties dialogue box, type "box", again, without the quotes. Then press enter.
Step 3
Double click this new movieClip (this should take you into this movieClip timeline)
Step 4
Now press F6, 3 times. This wil give you 3 additional key frames on this timeline. You should now have 4 key frames.
|Step 5
Select key frame 1 on this timeline and press F8. Type into the diag box "standing", without the quotes. Then select the Movie Clip radio button, if it is not already selected.
Step 6
Step 12
Make sure your library is in view, if not Ctrl+L. You should see the movement clips you created, running_right, running_left, etc. Double Click any one of these and add the animation your want in these movs.
There we go, simples.....Test you animation and see how you are doing.
Select key frame 2 on this timeline and press F8. Type into the diag box "running_right", without the quotes. Then select the Movie Clip radio button, if it is not already selected.
Step 7
Select key frame 3 on this timeline and press F8. Type into the diag box "running_left", without the quotes. Then select the Movie Clip radio button, if it is not already selected.
Step 8
Select key frame 4 on this timeline and press F8. Type into the diag box "jumping", without the quotes. Then select the Movie Clip radio button, if it is not already selected.
Great, once you have done this, these new movieClips should now have appeared in your library (press Ctrl+L if you cannot see your library)
Ok then you have just created your movement MovieClip. You now need to get back to the main timeline. You can just keep on clicking the stage to get back to this location. Once there you need to select the box you have just created and name this "box" for the time being.
Ok then a little bit of programming now.
Step 9Create a new layer in the timeline and name it scripts.
Step 10Then select this layer and press F9 on your keyboard. THis should bring up the scripting pane for this frame.
Step 11Type in the following code
box.stop();// when you run this animation, this command will stop your box from doing anything
var keyBoardListener:Object = new Object();// Creates a new Object for the keyboard presses
keyBoardListener.onKeyDown = function() {
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {// runnning LEFT action
_root.box.gotoAndStop(3);// Frame where the running right animation is
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {// running RIGHT action
_root.box.gotoAndStop(2);// Frame where the running right animation is
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.UP)) {// JUMPING action
_root.box.gotoAndStop(4);// Frame where the JUMPING animation is
keyBoardListener.onKeyUp = function() {
_root.box.gotoAndStop(1);// When the keys are released, this action takes your animation back to frame 1, where your character is just standing still.
Key.addListener(keyBoardListener);// this assigns the listener to your key press detection Object.
Step 12
Edit the action movs within your library by double clicking each one and adding movement to each. Then test your animation.

Strategy, Planning and Managing bulk updates to large fleet of Windows Servers 2003-2012

a major project at my new job using SCCM is to push out in an organised fashion updates to its fleet of 500+ windows servers. Numbers: 50+ 2003, 50 x 2008, 200x 2008r2, 200x 2012.
This is spread across DC's, File/print, Exchange, Lync, FIM, App, SQL, Orchestrator, with many clustered/NLB, others not.
I am struggling to piece together a plan to attack which server first, in an organised, planned fashion but using collections and SCCM. We also have Orchestrator, although I am not that experienced in using it (but it may server my purposes better?)
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I am only interested in the BASE Operating System (Server core, not Application, like exchange/lync).
What are at least the basic principle i should adhere to (ie. target non-critical first)?
Can I deploy updates to all at once, suppressing restart, and then just manage the restart process in a managed/documented fashion?
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What groups of servers can i manage together and automate restarts during service windows etc.
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Hi Maxwell,
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What is your Premiere, After Effects and SpeedGrade Workflow?

Hi Everyone,
I am an experienced editor who's switched to Adobe's CC barely a year ago. At the moment I'm in the midst of finishing up a corporate project and trying to think of the best workflow between Premiere, After Effects and SpeedGrade. I'm loving the Dynamic Link workflows, but at the some time I'm facing some obstacles, and am wondering how you guys do your work.
Let's say I finished the edit of the project and send the project via Dynamic Link to SG. I finish the grade and then decide to use the Dynamic Link to AE to add some titles with shapes and effects such as Fast Blur. This is where I'm facing the first problem. When I choose a clip to be 'Replaced with an AE Composition', the color correction is gone, and now if I grade in SG, it will naturally grade the titles I added. So, it seems as though my color grade is a waste of time and I have to do it the old school way of first absolutley completing the color grade, exporting, re-importing and then heading for titles and effects. That makes you lose quite a bit of "dynamics" in your work (and time aka money), if my clients want changes for example.
For simple animations with text, and shapes, this is not a big issue since you could easily add the titles to a second Video track. But when you use After Effects which changes the acutal image of a clip by adding effects, things don't work out too easily. But in any case, these might just be the limitations to the relativley new Dynamic Link workflow.
In my specific example, how would you go about it? What is your workflow? Maybe I'm missing out on some tips & tricks.
Be happy to hear from you guys and maybe get some expert knowledge.
Best,
fabian

Hey there,
I'm also looking for a solid workflow solution since adopting (and actually really liking) Speedgrade. So below is what I'm going to try which should work and will follow this thread to see if any other workflows pop up. Also typing this out here to help me with plan of attack
Project Specs - 3 minute corporate video with text animation, interviews, broll, and computer screen replacement
Edit in Premiere
Dynamic link to SpeedGrade for color correction
Open back up in Premiere, confirm all color corrections are applied, and then duplicate sequence to an AE Prep extension
In AE prep sequence, take all AE "base" shots (for computer screen composite or anything needing stabilization) up onto their own track (i.e. V5 & V6)
Add 10 frame handles to in & out, checkerboard clips as needed
Delete all other remaining content but keep blank spaces / no ripple deletes
Export this out to a ProRes4444 QT movie
Import ProRes4444 QT movie back into premiere, add over existing video layers in AE Prep extension sequence, and then there time out the screen shot replacement content to cover effect duration
Dynamic link AE Prep Premiere Pro sequence to AE
Do the AE work
Dynamic link back to Premiere
DoneHopefully
This was my similar work around back in the day before I had Automatic Duck in FCP to AE
Hope this helps anyone else - if there are any glaring "why would you do all that" points - please let me know I'll also report back if there are any horrible roadblocks throughout the process.
_Christina

Running a java program a set number of times

This is a general question. Is it possible to make a java program run only 5 times for the sake of arguement.
Basically I want to write a program that will give the user some flexibility when it will actually run another Java program, but I only want them to be able to say "not now' for a set number of times. When the last time comes the other program will launch. I was initially thinking of the Do Whilw loop, but this needs to work when the program is restarted.
Program starts, it has 5 times it will run before it does something else(doesn't really matter now I think). User takes option "Not Now" and the program ends, but warns the user this will run 4 more times before you will need to do something.
This process will repeat until the user takes the option "Ok install now" or the time limit expires and the install occurs anyway. Can someone point me in the right direction.

ok I see so it's like one those programs that you download for free on the internet and they give you a set amount times to use it before you have to pay for it. but in this case when the number of times you use it equals 5 (or when the user clicks ok) a different java app will open automatically.
My first thought would be to Write a Serialized object to disk using objectOutputStream that stores the number of times the application has been opened. and each time the program runs it checks for the serialized object and then you can do something like what I posted before. of course if were worried about security the user could always look for the object and erase it, if so then I guess we would have to come up with another plan of attack
Hope this helps

Load Rule validates, yet no data values modified

The load rule worked on a server running an NT operating system with essbase version 6.1.3. I rebuilt the application on a server running W2k with an essbase version 6.1.6. The load rule validates on the new server. The load looks as if it is loading correctly. When I check out the log file, it shows a warning number 1003035 with a message stating "No data values modified by load of this data file." Any ideas??? Creating a new load rule from scratch did not work. My next plan of attack is to check out the actual txt file to see if anything looks odd.

Have you got any record select or record reject statements in your rules?

IWeb will NOT open domain package, tried many things.

I hope someone can help me. I searched the forum several times and went through all six pages of results looking for an answer. I did try everything listed in the few posts that did seem related, as well as a lot of those tips in combination with others, but nothing has helped.
Problem: After an AppleStore hard drive replacement, I copied things over from my Time Machine backup, as well as a backup of the more important things on another external drive. I copied things very peacemeal, basically starting from scratch for a few weeks to make sure the problem I was having was gone. (It's not, but that's a story for another day). When it came time to copy over my domain file and open it, it wouldn't open with iWeb. That is to say, doubleclicking it would open iWeb, but even watching activity monitor like a hawk, I couldn't see that it was doing anything.
Here is what I HAVE tried:
1 - deleted current domain file, and copied old one in it's place. No change.
2 - emptied the folder usually used to hold the domain, opened iWeb to create a new one. Close iWeb, copy domain to desktop, then copy the old one in it's place. No change.
3 - delete preferences and caches for iWeb, then repeat step 2. No change.
4 - delete preferences and caches for iWeb, then delete any combination of the following from the domain package: .plist files, domainstate.archive file, index.xml file. I tried this step about six times, with a different combination of these files each time, finishing with a repeat of step 2, and testing it. The only combinations that had any change were leaving only the index.xml file in the package, which got me about a second-long loading bar, then nothing, and leaving both the index.xml and the domainstate.archive in the package, which got iWeb to peak around 90-110% CPU (on activity monitor), flash the app not responding message a few times, then about 10 seconds later, it started idling again, nothing having opened.
Each time I've tried both opening iWeb first, and then actually doubleclicking the domain package. No difference between them. Then I copied the iWeb app from the time machine backup into my documents folder, and manually tried to open the domain package, with .plists missing, with that copy of iWeb. No change there either.
Both copies of iWeb, the one that last saved to the domain, and the one I'm trying to open it with, are the same version. I don't even been an OS update since it was last saved; I'm pretty sure I was on 10.6.4 then too.
I'm a little hung on what to do next. There isn't much in the domain package that could be causing issues except for the ones I tried copying out; everything else is just pretty standard file types.
That said, I'm not sure what could be causing the issue on the iWeb end, since I not only deleted the preferences and caches, but also tried a whole different application file.
I am planning to do a clean install on this computer, yet again, and start from scratch in hopes I can pinpoint what is causing my (unrelated to this issue) problem, for the Apple tech guys.
Should I just do another Time Machine backup with this new image, as well as keeping the old one, and then try to copy it over again when I've re-installed? I was hoping not to have to do it for another few weeks, because I'll need another external, since this one is out of space, but I also need to be able to edit this site!
Any help anyone has, even it's just a hunch of a suggestion, would be fantastic, and very appreciated. At this point, I'll try anything that won't damage any of my data, no matter how far-fetched.
Thanks!

It sounds as if the problems, or the symptoms at least, are the same. When I double click the domain file, iWeb opens (with the open/welcome/tutorial screen if I've just deleted preference and cache files), and I'll get the menu bar, but nothing else. With the right combination of files removed from the domain package (see my previous posts for that), I can coax a loading bar out of it, but it "loads" in the normal few seconds, and nothing displays. Nada. Menu bar has iWeb, but almost all of the items in any drop down menu are greyed out, all the important ones I checked for anyway, and you can see either the desktop or finder window, or whatever other application that was open before you clicked the domain file.
I'm not sure I included this in my last post, but I did try just simply disabling MobileMe, but without any luck. I never really thought it would work, but figured it could never hurt to try.
The disk utility found a few permissions problems, but none were related to iWeb, they all actually seemed to stem from one thing. I did repair, but no improvement. I'm hoping to have some time this weekend to try some different things to see if I can get it to open. I'll keep a detailed list of what seemed to help, what didn't, and if I'm lucky, what solved it. Short of that, free time allowing, I plan to do a clean install I need to do for another reason, on Sunday. Unfortunately that means you guys won't get any details as to what would have solved it short of something drastic like that (hopefully that will solve it...) but I've got deadlines approaching, not only for that, but for the initial reason for the clean install.
I will try everything I can think of, and anything anyone else can think of, and will volunteer to me. I'm going to move enough files around this evening and tomorrow on my externals to do a full time machine backup, plus second backup of the more important files, so anything you want to suggest, I'll be a testing ground, so others with the issue hopefully won't have to resort to the clean install. As re-installing iWeb had no effect, I'm going to assume, with my limited knowledge in this area, that problem stems from a shared file or the domain package itself. Hopefully not the latter; it's all I've got.
Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions of even something to look for that might serve to flag my attention to investigate further, I'd appreciate it, so we can get a solid plan of attack for others.
Thanks for your help so far, everyone!

Please help me understand making and loading variable classes

Hi guys ,
I know that I am stupid but I just can't get this! AS3 says you need to load variables into a class? Please please give me a simple example
my variables look like this... (the whole point of playing around with variables was that if I had to make a change I could access one place and change them...
but now I realse that I can't access or call them outside the movie clip they are in:(
please hlep me!
var ans1="";
var ans2="";
var w1="ABN";
var def1="An ABN (Australian Business Number), is a personal number for your business that makes it easier and quicker to deal with government and other businesses.";
var w2="ACN";
var def2="An ACN is an Australian Company Number, which is a special number that each company gets to identify it. No two companies can have the same ACN";
var w3="Action Plan";
var def3="A business Action Plan will show What needs to be done and When it needs to be done by."
var w4="Advertising";
var def4="Advertising is producing information to let people know about your business and try to increase sales."
var w5="Promotions";
var def5="Promotions are where your business tries to increase the sales of a particular item through offering a good deal, advertising or a special display.";
var w6="Benefit";
var def6="A benefit is something good that you get. One benefit of doing exercise is getting fit, another benefit is losing weight.";
var w7="Business Mentor";
var def7="A business mentor is a trusted guide. Someone who has experience and has been successful in business and can help and advise you.";
var w8="Business Name";
var def8="A Business name is the name a business uses to do its work. It lets customers know who you are.";
var w9="Business Registration";
var def9="When you start a business you need to register your ABN, you may need to register your business name.";
var w10="Cash flow";
var def10="Cash Flow for a business is having enough cash saved to be able to pay your bills when they are due.";
var w11="Characteristic";
var def11="The characteristics of something are describing words about that thing.";
var w12="Charges";
var def12="A charge is something you have to pay, an expense.";
var w13="Company";
var def13="Is the same as a corporation. A company is a type of business that needs to be registered (either State or Federal) and has special legal status. A company can put Pty. Ltd after it’s business name.";
var w14="Competitor";
var def14="A competitor is another business that is challenging you for customers.";
var w15="Constitution";
var def15="A constitution in business is a list of rules and principles that a company has agreed to follow.";
var w16="Corporations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act";
var def16="In the 1960s and 1970s, various reviews advised the Australian Government of the need for legislation to make it easier for Indigenous communities and organisations to form corporations. As a result, the ACA Act was passed, allowing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups to form corporations for any social or economic purpose.";
var w17="Corporations Act";
var def17="The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have laws that apply to corporations and these are found in the Corporations Act.";
var w18="Cultural knowledge";
var def18="Cultural knowledge is special information that is held by a particular cultural group, this could include technologies (e.g. special ways of using materials, making and using tools), stories, language and song, cultural rules, taboos, regulations and oral history.";
var w19="Customer";
var def19="The customer is someone who is buying something from a business.";
var w20="Debt";
var def20="Is something that you have to pay back. If you borrow 20 dollars you have a $20 debt.";
var w21="Direct competitor";
var def21="Is selling exactly the same thing as your business and competing for your customers.";
var w22="Dividend";
var def22="A dividend is money that is paid to shareholders regularly out of the company’s profits.";
var w23="(Microsoft) Excel";
var def23="Microsoft Excel is a computer program that lets you keep lists of numbers and also add up totals and do other sums to those numbers.";
var w24="Fees";
var def24="A fee is something that you have to pay, an expense.";
var w25="Financial Management";
var def25="Financial Management is the planning, organising, checking and controlling of the income, expenses and Tax for a business.";
var w26="Franchise";
var def26="A franchise is a type of business you can buy. When you buy a franchise you set up the same type of business that has been successful somewhere else.";
var w27="General ledger";
var def27="A general ledger for a business is where all of the income and expenses for that business are kept in a document.";
var w28="Goal";
var def28="A goal is a target that you set yourself or your business. Something that you want to achieve.";
var w29="Growth opportunity";
var def29="A growth opportunity is a chance for a business to get bigger.";
var w30="GST";
var def30="The Goods and Services Tax is paid when you buy things. Some items like food and medicine do not have the Goods and Services tax charged to them.";
var w31="ICN";
var def31="Indigenous Corporations Number is a special number given each indigenous corporation to identify it. No two indigenous corporations can have the same ICN.";
var w32="Incorporate";
var def32="Incorporate is what people do when they create a company or corporation.";
var w33="Indirect competitor";
var def33="An indirect competitor is selling a similar product or service to your business. E.g. If you had a pizza shop, a fried chicken shop is an indirect competitor because it sells food and your customers might want to eat chicken instead of pizza.";
var w34="Labour";
var def34="Labour is all the work done by people (including you) in your business.";
var w35="Legal name";
var def35="Your Legal Name is the name that is on your Birth Certificate.";
var w36="Legal protection";
var def36="Legal protection means you are protected under the law from certain things happening.";
var w37="Legal structure (business)";
var def37="Legal structure is the type of business, sole trader, company, partnership.";
var w38="Liability";
var def38="A liability is something you are responsible for.";
var w39="Licence";
var def39="A license is proof that you have permission to do something. For example, if you have a driving license you can drive a car.";
var w40="Lodge";
var def40="To lodge a form means to send it to where it has to go.";
var w41="Manufacturing";
var def41="A manufacturing business makes things.";
var w42="Marketing budget";
var def42="A marketing budget is the amount of money you have set aside for advertising and promotion for your business.";
var w43="Minor criminal convictions";
var def43="A minor criminal conviction is something small you have been in trouble over with the police. Shop lifting is an example of a minor criminal conviction. ";
var w44="MYOB";
var def44="MYOB is financial management software for business.";
var w45="Networks";
var def45="A network for business is all of your contacts, customers and the people you know through doing business. ";
var w46="Obligations";
var def46="Obligations are things you are responsible for.";
var w47="One off";
var def47="A “one off” cost is something that only needs to be paid for once.";
var w48="Operating budget";
var def48="The Operating Budget is a record of the income and expenses of a business.";
var w49="Overheads";
var def49="Overheads are the expenses or costs in running your business, the things you have to pay for.";
var w50="Partnership";
var def50="A partnership is where two or more people own and run a business.";
var w51="Permission";
var def51="Permission is where you ask if you can do something. If you ask and the person, group or council and they say yes, you have permission.";
var w52="Permit";
var def52="A permit is a special license or permission to do something";
var w53="Personal assets";
var def53="Personal assets are things that you own, like your car, house and furniture.";
var w54="Personal protection";
var def54="Being part of a company offers the shareholders some personal protection from legal and debt liabilities. This means that they have less responsibility than a Sole trader.";
var w55="Photo identification";
var def55="Photo Identification is a document that shows who you are and has your photo on it, like a Driver’s License, 18+ card or a passport.";
var w56="Postal address";
var def56="Your postal address is the address where you get your mail sent. It might be different to the address where you live.";
var w57="Pricing structure";
var def57="Pricing structure is where prices for something can change depending on how much the customer orders. The bigger the order the cheaper the price becomes.";
var w58="Private";
var def58="Private means not part of government.";
var w59="Profitable";
var def59="Profitable means that there is money left over after a business pays for all of its expenses out of the money it has made.";
var w60="Promote";
var def60="When you promote something you try to advertise or increase the amount of people who know about it.";
var w61="Public liability insurance";
var def61="Public Liability Insurance gives legal protection to the business owner against getting sued by a member of the public for things like injury or property damage. ";
var w62="Quickbooks";
var def62="Quickbooks is financial management software for business. ";
var w63="Registered";
var def63="Registered means that you have recorded your information on an official list. You register your car to be able to drive it on the road.";
var w64="Regulations";
var def64="Regulations are rules or laws that control what you can and can’t do.";
var w65="Retail";
var def65="Retail is where things get sold in small amounts to customers. Retail usually happens in a shop and the prices are higher.";
var w66="Service";
var def66="A Service business provides a service, like lawn mowing or accounting services.";
var w67="Shareholders";
var def67="Shareholders are people that own part of a company.";
var w68="Sole trader";
var def68="A sole trader is where one person owns and runs a business.";
var w69="Start up budget";
var def69="A Start Up Budget is the first Budget that gets done for a starting business and includes all of the costs involved in setting up the business.";
var w70="strategy";
var def70="A strategy in business is a plan of attack, or a plan of how to get something done.";
var w71="system";
var def71="A system is business is a set of detailed plans and rules for how to do something in your business.";
var w72="Vision";
var def72="Vision in business is being able to imagine and see something in the future. To set up a new business you need to be able to see something new that wasn’t there before.";
var w73="Wholesale";
var def73="Wholesale is where things get sold in large amounts, usually for a cheaper price. The Wholesale price. A wholesaler is usually a big shed where goods are stored. Wholesale is not usually available to just anyone.";

no, that's not a reason you would use a class file.
anyway, your document class variables are defined on the main timeline so to reference them from any timeline you can use:
MovieClip(root).w36; // for example (but it's really undesirable to have coding in more than one timeline)

Hp c7180. Test page has got lines across text and colours.

My Hp photosmart c7180 is not printing to a good quality.
My problems started when the cleaning mechanism was not able to go back to the home position and this then caused the print head to slam up to the cleaning mechanism (there is two plastic tabs that it hit). I then went inside the machine and found that the cleaning mechanism is on a runner with the rubber and a few other things. I freed up this mechanism and got it to slide up and down several times. i then put the machine back together printed a test page and the inks were very faint. After cleaning the head and doing an alignment several times, the inks are becoming more clear but still not right. There is a lot of lines through the text and the blocks of colour.
I did a print of a page of small text and the quality was fine. I printed a picture in greyscale and it has greens and reds in it. Also the larger text is blurred on some lines (not all the text on the same line is blurred)
What do i do now ??
There is also a roller that is spinning more than it used to. This is located underneath the print head towards the back of the printer.( It is connected to the little cogs on the left which pump the ink to the heads i think) Any suggestions on this would also be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Stephen

Thank you for the detailed post rileyc.
I would like to help you with the printing issue you are experiencing. I understand the issue seems to be related to the ink system or potentially the driver. The best plan of attack is to narrow down the root cause.
Can you please perform a colour copy that contains black spots too? I would like to see if the printer hardware can duplicate a page without any quality issues. Please let me know the outcome of the copy and we can go from there. Thanks
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