Best way to animate refresh arrows

Hi all, I am looking for a best practice for animating two arrows along the path of an O (font: Times new Roman)
See the picture below, it is not as simple of rotating the arrows, as the arrows have to move along a oval path and the paths stroke is not a consistent thickness.
I could animate frame by frame but I figured some guru on here might be able to suggest an expression or some other more optimized way. Thank you in advance for any tips. Chris

A few of the tricky steps I left out:
Change the anchor point of the triangle to be at the "base" with the pan-behind tool
1st arrow:
time-reverse the keyframes.
adjust the rotation and anchor point of the arrow to place it correctly.
set the arrow to "Auto-orient" "orient along path"
2nd arrow:
select mask path again and look at the "first vertex" which is the square vertex--not round.
go to the vertex that is 180 degrees and select it, right click and set first vertex
then repeat above

Similar Messages

What's the best way to animate a photo on top of a clip?

If any Shake users consistently and easily keyframe-animate either the Move2D node or the Pan node, I would be most grateful to hear how you do it.
I am trying to get a small photograph to move in various places on top of a video clip playing in the background. My simple script is Foreground Photo into a Move2D node (or on another attempt, a Pan node) into an Over node, and the Background clip into the right input of the Over node to create the composite.
Jon Chappell, in answering a previous post, said: "The Move2D node is somewhat buggy when it comes to keyframing. When I can't get keyframes, I do one of two things - click the "key" button next to the parameter I am trying to change (or if it is on, switch it off then on again) or I copy the number in the box, enter a different number into the box, press Enter and then copy the old value back and press Enter. Putting values in the box seems to be more reliable than dragging the on-screen controls. I find that generally it works fine but sometimes issues like this crop up."
A little background: When I worked through the tutorial on Page 113 of the Marco Paolini book (the woman walking in front of the laser beams around the car) the rotoshapes would key-frame animate easily. With the main keyframe button turned on under the viewer, I could move the playhead to a new frame, move the rotoshapes, and a new keyframe would automatically be created at the playhead. It works fine.
With Move2D or Pan, doing the same thing as with rotoshapes, no way. It does not work for me. Sometimes I will get a keyframe and sometimes not. Sometimes the keyframe might provide some movement, or it might be ignored. I've tried clicking the parameter keyframe buttons on and off, but that hasn't worked. A keyframe will show up in the time bar, but it provides no movement.
Jon's suggestion of typing in an X position and a Y position manually DOES seem to work, however. I guess that is the workaround, but it is not workable for my project. I need to move my photograph visually in relation to the clip underneath to get accurate placement. Typing in X and Y coordinates is not intuitive or accurate or fast to place the image.
I'm a new Shake user, so it could easily be operator error. But I've been working on this for a week now and am wondering if there is another way to animate a photo in X and Y coordinates (and also rotation) on top of a background clip. Are there other nodes I am overlooking that might provide keyframe-animation movement? Other methods?
Any advice greatly appreciated,
Devan

I can give you all kinds of workarounds but I think Captain Mench's suggestion is better. That's the kind of thing Motion is much better for. Shake isn't really an animation program.

Best way to repaint/refresh JFrame classes.

Hello everyone,
I am developing a small application for my studies. I have several classes many representing a user form allowing interaction with my system.
One of my first class instances is a Menu Screen from which the user can for example update their details. When the Update Details frame is closed by the user I invoke
frameName.setVisible(false);
frameName.dispose();This removes the Update Details frame and the Menu Screen is now fully visible.
However this screen does not get refreshed and remains partially obscured by the background color of the JFrame, even if I bring say a browser to the foreground and then click the original Menu Screen to the foreground it does not refresh the Menu Screen and remains half painted.
I was wondering about a few things.
1. Is there a way of detecting when the current JFrame has just received the focus, at which point I could repaint the screen.
2. Is there a way of Menu Screen discussed above being able to detect the closure of the Update Details JFrame (a separate class) and then take appropriate steps to repaint/refresh itself.
3. Ideally what I would like to do is Hide the Menu Screen then allow the user to interact with their menu selection and then Un-hide the Meun Screen when the user is done interacting with their menu selection.
4. Are there any tutorials on this type of thing, that anynone could direct me to.
Thank you for your consideration.
Cheers
Mark

Hello everyone,
I am developing a small application for my studies. I
have several classes many representing a user form
allowing interaction with my system.
One of my first class instances is a Menu Screen from
which the user can for example update their details.
When the Update Details frame is closed by the user I
invoke
frameName.setVisible(false);
frameName.dispose();This removes the Update Details frame and the Menu
Screen is now fully visible.
However this screen does not get refreshed and remains
partially obscured by the background color of the
JFrame, even if I bring say a browser to the
foreground and then click the original Menu Screen to
the foreground it does not refresh the Menu Screen and
remains half painted.
I was wondering about a few things.
1. Is there a way of detecting when the current JFrame
has just received the focus, at which point I could
repaint the screen.
2. Is there a way of Menu Screen discussed above being
able to detect the closure of the Update Details
JFrame (a separate class) and then take appropriate
steps to repaint/refresh itself.
3. Ideally what I would like to do is Hide the Menu
Screen then allow the user to interact with their menu
selection and then Un-hide the Meun Screen when the
user is done interacting with their menu selection.
4. Are there any tutorials on this type of thing, that
anynone could direct me to.
Thank you for your consideration.
Cheers
Mark

Best way to animate a line with a dot leading along a path

I need to animate a line along a path with a circle in front of it. Basically an 'i' path with the tail extending. Similar to the shape in this image http://www.ravishankar.me/images/intro/skelta-connect2.png
Ive tried:
Using and animating a shape tween, its very time consuming and would only really work without the dot
Using a mask doesnt seem to work either as its not a basic line
And making it a symbol on a path in a motion tween also doesnt follow the line to how i need it
Any suggestions please!?

You could do a frame by frame animation. The easiest way to do it is to work the animation backwards along the timeline, removing a piece of the line (and moving the dot) in each frame and then reversing the frames when you are done.

What's the best way to animate handwritten script?

I am trying to animate the appearance of this logo being written. I have tried to approached this a couple of different ways but keep working myself into a dead end.
Mask paths become too complicated unless I'm doing it wrong. My next attempt will be to do it but with many smaller masks, revealing smaller sections at a time but with the appearance and flow of one motion.
Any suggestions? Is After Effects even the right program to be using?

I use fountain pens. the typeface you have chosen requires a beveled nib, what we might call a stub or an oval italic. As the direction of the stroke changes, the amount of metal contacting the page changes and therefore the width of the line of ink being laid down.
As has been said, it's complicated to emulate handwriting if you want it to be realistic. The other thing to know about realism is that someone using a calligraphy pen or a fountain pen do not create glyphs at the same mechanical pace. The repositioning of the hand and fingers from ending a descender and back to the baseline to begin a new glyph requires time. The space between words requires a pause in the action.

Best way to put 3D effect on logo?

I am using FCP Studio and on most video I work on there is some sort of 3D fly in of the companies logo at the beginning of the video. when I was using Pinnacle Liquid, I would just add a 3d effect to the logo and adjust the parameters inside the effect. Now on FCP, what is the best way to animate a logo? Do I add a "Basic 3D" filter in the Perspective folder in the effects menu? This seems a little clunky because you have to go to different tabs (filter and motion) to do the adjusting. Would I want to use motion for this? Sorry if these are simple questions, but I am just getting up to full speed on FCP.
Thanks for the help!
John Schenkel

Hi John,
Basic 3D will give you a 3D motion (x,y, and z space) but there is no depth to the object.
Boris Title 3D will give you the ability to fake depth but if you move the object around it's still 2D.
If you're looking for a fly in you should explore After Effects, Boris Grafitti, Zaxwerks, or 3D Studio Max.
I'm hopeful Apple will include some sort of simple 3D titling or objects in the next version of FCP or Motion.

Best way for Database Reorg.

Hi Experts
I want your advise on what is the best way for Database Re-Organizing / Database Refresh.
Regards.

Hi,
what is the best way for Database Re-Organizing?Good question!
Oracle's official way to do online table reorgs is with the dbms_redefinition utility, and here are my notes:
http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_online_table_reorganization.htm
Under the covers, it uses CTAS, which can also be done in parallel:
http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_create_table_select_ctas.htm
Of course, you can also do reorgs with Data Pump . . . .
what is the best way for Database Refresh? I use a fast clone procedure:
http://www.dba-oracle.com/oracle_tips_db_copy.htm
Hope this helps. . .
Donald K. Burleson
Oracle Press author
Author of "Oracle Tuning: The Definitive Reference":
http://www.dba-oracle.com/bp/s_oracle_tuning_book.htm

Access-SQL Server (Client Server Configuration) Best Way To Refresh SQL Server Records ?

We are using Access 2013 as the front end and SQL Server 2014 as the back end to a client server configuration.
Access controls are bound to the SQL fields with the same names. When using Access to create a new record in a Form, the data are not transferred to SQL if the form is exited to display a different Form or Access is closed. If the right or left arrow navigation
buttons at the bottom of the form are first used to display either the previous or next record, then the data in the new record are correctly transferred to SQL.
What is the best way to refresh the new SQL record prior to the closing of the new record in the bound Access form ? We have tried Requery of the entire form and with all of the individual controls without success. We are looking for a method of refreshing
SQL that functions in a manner similar to that of what happens with the navigation buttons.
Thank you very much for your assistance.
Robert Robinson
RERThird

Hi Stefan,
I had added the code to set me.dirty = False in response to the On Dirty event and didn't realize that it was working properly. I had tried other several approaches and must have become confused somewhere along the line.
I retested the program. On Dirty is working and the problem is solved.
Thank you very much for your assistance.
Robert Robinson
RERThird

Best way to refresh page after returning from task flow?

Hello -
(Using jdev 11g release 1)
What is the best way to refresh data in a page after navigating to and returning from a task flow with an isolated data control scope where that data is changed and commited to the database?
I have 2 bounded task flows: list-records-tf and edit-record-tf
Both use page fragments
list-records-tf has a list.jsff fragment and a task flow call to edit-record-tf
The list.jsff page has a table of records that a user can click on and a button which, when pressed, will pass control to the edit-record-tf call. (There are also set property listeners on the button to set values in the request that are used as parameters to edit-record-tf.)
The edit-record-tf always begins a new transaction and does not share data controls with the calling task flow. It consists of an application module call to set up the model according to the parameters passed in (edit record X or create new record Y or...etc.), a page fragment with a form to allow users to edit the record, and 2 different task flow returns for saving/cancelling the transaction.
Back to the question - when I change a record in the edit page, the changes do not show up on the list page until I requery the data set. What is the best way to get the list page to refresh itself automatically upon return from the edit-record-tf?
(If I ran the edit task flow in a popup dialog I could just use the return listener on the command component that launched the popup. But I don't want to run this in a dialog.)
Thank you for reading my question.

What if you have the bean which has refresh method as TF param? Call that method after you save the data. or use contextual event.

The best way to import video in Edge Animate project?

What is the best way to add video and audio in Edge ANimate project?
Thanks
Ares

Hi,
Can you check out the answers on this forum thread, and let us know if it helped you?
Can I import video into Edge? (http://forums.adobe.com/message/4352262)
Thanks,
Preran

Best way to get SharePoint workflow to trigger InDesign XML refresh and PDF export?

What is the best way to get a SharePoint workflow to trigger the refresh of an XML datasource within an InDesign document, and generate a PDF export? The datasource would be hosted by SharePoint.
Would InDesign Server be required?

My understanding of the license is that Adobe requires you to use InDesign Server for this sort of thing.
But the implementation is probably the same either way. Periodically poll, or find some way to trigger it.

JPA -- Best way to refresh a List association?

Hi,
I need to refresh a OneToMany association.
For example, I have two entities: Header & Detail.
@Entity
@Table(name="HEADERS")
public class Header implements Serializable {
    @OneToMany(mappedBy="header")
    private List<Detail> details;
@Entity
@Table(name="DETAILS")
public class Detail implements Serializable {
    @ManyToOne(fetch=FetchType.LAZY)
    @JoinColumn(name="HDR_ID", referencedColumnName="HDR_ID")
    private Header header;
}So, I fetch the Header along with all its Details.
At a later point of time, I know that some Detail rows in the database have been changed behind my back. I need to re-fetch the list of Details. What should I do?
1. I could add a cascade parameter to the @OneToMany association. I could specify:
@OneToMany(mappedBy="header", cascade={CascadeType.REFRESH})Then I could run:
entityManager.refresh(header);The trouble is that, since all the Details are already in the cache, the cached entities will be returned, not the ones fetched from the database. So, I won't refresh a thing. A query will be sent to the database indeed, but I will get the cached (i.e. stale) entities. I don't know of a way to specify something like
setHint(TopLinkQueryHints.REFRESH, HintValues.TRUE)dynamically for associations, so that the values in the cache would be replaced with the ones fetched from the database.
2. I could try to turn off the caching for the while Entity class. The trouble is that for some reason this doesn't work (see my other question here JPA -- How can I turn off the caching for an entity? Besides, even if it worked, I don't want to turn off the caching in general. I simply want to refresh the list sometimes.
Could anyone tell me what's the best way to refresh the association?
Best regards,
Bisser

Hi Chris,
First, let me thank you that you take the time to answer my questions. I really appreciate that. I wish to apologize for my late reply but I wasn't around the PC for a while.
TopLink doesn't refresh an entity based on a view. I will try to explain in more detail. I hope you'll have patience with me because this might be a bit longer even than my previous post. I will oversimplify my actual business case.
Let's assume we have two tables and a view:
create table MASTERS
(id number(18) not null primary key,
   master_name varchar2(50));
create table DETAILS
(id number(18) not null primary key,
   master_id number(18) not null,   -- FK to MASTER.ID
   price number(7,2));
create view DETAILS_VW as
select id, master_id, price
from details;Of course, in real life the view is useful and actually peforms complex aggregate calculations on the details. But at the moment I wish to keep things as simple as possible.
So, I create Entities for the tables and the view. Here are the entities for MASTERS and DETAILS_VW, only the essential stuff (w/o getters, setters, sequence info, etc.):
@Entity
@Table(name="MASTERS")
public class Master {
     @Id
     @Column(name="ID", nullable=false)
     private Long id;
     @Column(name="MASTER_NAME")
     private String masterName;
     @OneToMany(mappedBy="master", fetch=FetchType.LAZY, cascade=CascadeType.REFRESH)
     private List<DetailVw> detailsVw;
@Entity
@Table(name="DETAILS_VW")
public class DetailVw {
     @Id
     @Column(name="ID")
     private Long id;
     @ManyToOne(fetch=FetchType.LAZY)
     @JoinColumn(name="MASTER_ID", referencedColumnName="ID")
     private Master master;
     @Column(name="PRICE")
     private Double price;
}So, now we have the tables and the entities. Let's assume one master row and two detail rows exist:
MASTER: ID=1, MASTER_NAME='Master #1'
DETAIL: ID=1, MASTER_ID=1, PRICE=3
DETAIL: ID=2, MASTER_ID=1, PRICE=8And now let's run the following code:
// List the initial state
Master master = em.find(Master.class, 1L);
List<DetailVw> detailsVw = master.getDetailsVw();
for (DetailVw dv : detailsVw) {
     System.out.println(dv);
// Modify a detail
EntityTransaction tx = em.getTransaction();
tx.begin();
Detail d = em.find(Detail.class, 2L);
d.setPrice(1);
tx.commit();
// Refresh
System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
em.refresh(master);
// List the state AFTER the update
detailsVw = master.getDetailsVw();
for (DetailVw dv : detailsVw) {
     System.out.println(dv);
}And here are some excerpts from the console (only the essentials):
DetailVw: id=1, price=3
DetailVw: id=2, price=8
UPDATE DETAILS SET PRICE = ? WHERE (ID = ?)
     bind => [1, 2]
SELECT ID, MASTER_NAME FROM MASTERS WHERE (ID = ?)
     bind => [1]
SELECT ID, PRICE, MASTER_ID FROM DETAILS_VW WHERE (MASTER_ID = ?)
     bind => [1]
DetailVw: id=1, price=3
DetailVw: id=2, price=8You see, the UPDATE statement changes the DETAILS row. The price was 8, but was changed to 1. I checked the database. It was indeed changed to 1.
Furthermore, due to the refresh operation, a query was run on the view. But as you can see from the console output, the results of the query were completely ignored. The price was 8, and continued to be 8 even after the refresh. I assume it was because of the cache. If I run an explicit query on DETAILS_VW with the hint:
q.setHint(TopLinkQueryHints.REFRESH, HintValues.TRUE);then I see the real updated values. But if I only refresh with em.refresh(master), then the DetailVw entities do not get refreshed, even though a query against the database is run. I have tested this both in JavaSE and in OC4J. The results are the same.
An explicit refresh on a particular DetailVw entity works, though:
DetailVw dvw = em.find(DetailVw.class, 2L);
em.refresh(dvw);
System.out.println(dvw);Then the console says:
DetailVw: id=2, price=1So, the price is indeed 1, not 8.
If you can explain that to me, I will be really thankful!
Best regards,
Bisser

Until the most recent update when the autocomplete location bar was selected, it "went" with no further clicking. Now I have to click the refresh arrow. It won't even work with the return. How can I make it work the old easier way?

Until the most recent update when the url that I wanted in the autocomplete location bar was selected, it "went" with no further clicking. Now I have to click the refresh arrow. It won't even work with the return. How can I make it work the old easier way?

cor-el, thank you so much. That fixed it, but does this mean I can't use AVG Safe Search.Is there a substitute? I do like the security (hopefully real) that it offers. What now? How do I get out of Safe Mode?
Sherry

Best way using ADDT? : No page refresh, but form fields change on selection.

The top half of the form is a simple user registration. The bottom half is dependent on the user selecting an item from a dropdown menu which then changes the form accordingly.
What is the best way to do this?

-----
How about an alternate solution, where each form is on an a spry widget accordion plane?
When tyring to do that with ADDT or Dreamweaver forms, you would have to define multiple insert or update transactions as well -- that´s per se not possible, also because an insert/update transaction always comes with an "redirect after insert/update" trigger, means the user will be leaving that page.
But is there a way to still have the simple registration form at the top of the page?
see my "redirect after insert" comment above.
Would each widget form have its own submit button?
You might want to consider creating separate (non ADDT) forms for each SPRY accordion which submit their stuff to the database behind the scenes and without leaving the page. To my knowledge the SPRY documentation shows how this can be done -- but as this isn´t related to ADDT, I´m not going to comment on that :-)
Then on submit it inserts the simple registration form along with its own form?
the main form
(regardless if it´s driven by ADDT´s or Dreamweaver´s insert/update behaviours) will be redirecting to another page
Cheers,
Günter Schenk
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver

What is the best way to read and manipulate large data in excel files and show them in Sharepoint

Hi ,
I have a large excel file that has 700,000 records in it. The excel file has a few columns that change every day.
What is the best way to read the data form the excel file in fastest and most efficient way.
2 nd Problem,
I have one excel file that has many rows each row contain some data that has certain keywords.
What I want is to segregate the data of rows into respective sheets(tabs ) in the workbook.
for example in rows have following data
1. Alfa
2beta
3 gama
4beta
5gama
6gama
7alfa
in excel
I want there to be 3 tabs now with each of the key words alfa beta and gamma.

Hi,
I don't really see any better options for SharePoint. SharePoint use other production called 'Office Web App' to allow users to view/edit Microsoft Office documents (word, excel etc.). But the web version of excel doesn't support that much records as well
as there's size limitations (probably the default max size is 10MB).
Regarding second problem, I think you need some custom solutions (like a SharePoint timer job/webpart ) to read and present data.
However, if you can reduce the excel file records to something near 16k (which is supported rows in web version of excel) then you can use SharePoint Excel service to refresh data automatically in the excel file in SharePoint from some external sources.
Thanks,
Sohel Rana
http://ranaictiu-technicalblog.blogspot.com

Best way to animate refresh arrows

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for