Better Snippits Panel

I would like to have a snippits panel where each snippit has HTML and CSS bundled together, but when added to the document the css goes to either a style tag in the head or a linked file. Is there an extension out there that does this? If not, what would some tips be on how to build it?

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Crvs2010 beta - parameter panel - new feature

Hello,
I read the list of new features for crvs2010. One of the new features listed in the message is the Parameter Panel. The runtime engine supports a parameter panel on the left-hand side. You can optionally place parameters on the panel.
I did not see the feature in the beta that I have installed. Is it in the beta yet, or is there really something wrong with my installation?
I would greatly appreciate it if someone would let me know if they have this feature?
Thank you
Tracy

No problem David.
I know that you have a lot on your plate and I have been known to be a handful, as they say.
I can understand not updating the vs viewer, when there are other, more up to date options available. For the most post Visual Studio and Crystal are for what us old timers would have called "hard core" programmers, not end users. Today, though, that is changing, more end-users are sometimes very involved in creating what they need.
When I can catch my breath, I am going to search for a beginners tutorial that covers setting up the .net winform viewer.
As usual, thank you for all of your help. I really appreciate it.

Toward a Better Metadata Panel

Thank you, Adobe, for including us in evaluating LR4. By and large it is a wonderful program full of useful improvements. I do, however, have a long-standing gripe with the "Sync Metadata" diaglogue box. Working as a news photographer, captioning is of the utmost importance and enterying metadata in bulk is often a must. I would LOVE for the caption field in the Sync Metadata dialogue box to grow automatically as lines are added, so that when I write long captions, the entire entry can be seen at once. Is this possible and is there anyone out there that would support me in requesting this feature?
Again, thanks for letting us be a part of Lightroom's improvement.
Tim

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How do I make the "Find Panel" (Ctrl-F) more ME friendly?

After quickly resolving and only recently glitch in an older Firefox version (17.0.1) concerning stubborn restore of last sessions upon start up, using now version 27.0.1, I am now frustrated with the Find Panel (using Ctrl-F). How do I revert the Find Panel to older (not to mention MORE PRACTICAL!) version? If a visualization is actually necessary, I found a link that may be helpful: http://s11.postimg.org/qsc5piwr7/ff_find.png .
Focusing ONLY on the Find Panel, the version I am looking for is on
the top, while the newer (not to mention INFERIOR!) version can be
found on the bottom.
If I have to get another version, please let it also be able to use the Norton Toolbar, but I would much rather be given the instructions on how to simply edit the version I have now (27.0.1) so as to change only the Find Panel as I described above.
If you noticed, I'm getting super frustrated and also very picky, but as things Mozilla, Google, etc. go on, making what I suppose they call "progress," they all start to diminish in their functions. I'm not looking for a special looking internet browser, but one that works, user friendly, ME friendly. If Firefox has a few bugs to work out, work `em out, but for heaven's sake, stop altering the orientation of tools in the browser, rendering it far less practical than its wiser ancestral versions. I digress though . . .
I'm using Firefox 27.0.1, extremely loathe the Find Panel (Ctrl-F), how can I switch to an older and
better Find Panel (while at the same time also maintianing compatibility for Norton Toolbar)?
http://s11.postimg.org/qsc5piwr7/ff_find.png

Try the following style in Stylish. It's a fair approximation of the previous appearance.
* https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/stylish/
Once Stylish is installed, open the Add-ons Manager (Ctrl+Shift+A), User Styles category. Click the Write New Style button at the top and paste the following in it. Give the style a name and click the Save button.
<pre><nowiki>@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);
.findbar-closebutton {
-moz-box-ordinal-group: 0 !important;
margin-left: 0px !important;
margin-right: 7px !important;
.findbar-textbox {
-moz-box-ordinal-group: 0 !important;
.findbar-find-next {
-moz-box-ordinal-group: 0 !important;
border-left-width: 0px !important;
border-radius: 0px !important;
.findbar-find-next label:after {
content: "Next" !important;
margin-left: 4px !important;
.findbar-find-previous {
border-right-color: rgb(160, 160, 160) !important;
border-right-style: solid !important;
border-right-width: 0.8px !important;
border-radius: 0px 2px 2px 0px !important;
.findbar-find-previous label:after {
content: "Previous" !important;
margin-left: 4px !important;
.findbar-container > spacer {
display: none !important;
}</nowiki></pre>
The Alt+N and Alt+P keyboard shortcuts no longer work for finding the next and previous occurrence, respectively. You can use F3 or Ctrl+G and Shift+F3 or Ctrl+Shift+G, respectively.
If you want the find bar to remain open when switching tabs, you can use the FindBar Tweak add-on.
* https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/findbar-tweak/
If you want to submit feedback or suggestions, open the Help menu — either from the orange Firefox button or the menu bar — and choose Submit Feedback. This is a support forum and your comment may not get noticed here.

Where to find Very Nice Test Front Panel?

I don't have too many experience in LabView (just a couple of years) but I already did many complex test programs. All my proyect has a very simple front panel using just the labView graphics.
Now I want to change my front panels. Where I can find another type of front panels? maybe you can send me your examples or we can do a data base of the beter front panels.
Thank you every body
See one of my Test Front panel attached
Luis...
Attachments:
front panel.PNG ‏117 KB

You can search the web for GUI design. I don't have the bookmarks at hand at the moment. Maybe I did find the links on LAVA... One of them was called 'Interface Hall of Shame' for a collection of historical misconcepts. The book by Blume has also a chapter on FP design.
Anyhow, very independent of LV this is a big issue discussed in different flavours (psychological, engineering, software/computer sience, testing).
The other kind of experience is just look at other SW you are using (media player, office, your OS -> and Linux flavours!, web pages, traditional stand alone instruments ...).
This is an open subject, so you won't find a solution but you will benefit from reading a certain amount of stuff about it.
Felix
www.aescusoft.de
My latest community nugget on producer/consumer design
My current blog: A journey through uml

X1 Carbon 2014 display

I have the brand new X1 Carbon with the WQHD display. I wiped the drive and installed Ubuntu Linux 13.10. Everything works perfectly. Sound, WiFi, camera, trackpad...all running fine with no issues. I also have a new T540p running Windows 8.1. When I compare the display on the X1 to the T540p, it is noticeably dimmer. I have the brightness cranked all the way up, but the display looks like its about 75% as bright. Is this just because the T540p has a better display panel, or is there some defect with my X1? Other than that, its an amazing laptop. Big improvement over the 2012 model.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

UPDATE: Just installed Ubuntu on a new non-touch X1 Carbon. For me, the display quality seems much better than the touch version. Its sharper and brighter. Still not as good as the display on my T540p, but I am now satisfied. Thanks for the tip.

Need help with using graphics in swing components

Hi. I'm new to Java and trying to learn it while also developing an application for class this semester. I've been following online tutorials for about 2 months now, though, and so I'm not sure my question counts as a "new to Java" question any more as the code is quite long.
Here is the basic problem. I started coding the application as a basic awt Applet (starting at "Hello World") and about a month in realized that Swing components offer better buttons, panels, layouts, etc. So I converted the application, called BsfAp, to a new JApplet and started adding JPanels and JComponents with layout managers. My problem is, none of the buffered graphics run in any kind of JPanel, only the buttons do. I assume the buffered graphics are written straight to the JApplet top level container instead but I'm not entirely sure.
So as to not inundate the forum with code, the JApplet runs online at:
http://mason.gmu.edu/~dho2/files/sensor.html
The source code is also online at:
http://mason.gmu.edu/~dho2/files/BsfAp.java
What I would like to do is this - take everything in the GUI left of the tabbed button pane and put it into a JScrollPane so that I can use a larger grid size with map display I can scroll around. The grid size I would like to use is more like 700x1000 pixels, but I only want to display about 400x400 pixels of it at a time in the JScrollPane. Then I could also move this JScrollPane around with layout manager. I think this is possible, but I don't know how to do it.
I'm sure the code is not organized or optimized appropriately to those of you who use Java every day, but again I'm trying to learn it. ;-)
Thanks for any help or insight you could provide in this.
Matt

Couple of recs:
* Don't override paint and paint directly on the JApplet. Paint on a JPanel and override paintComponent.
* The simplest way to display a graphic is to put an image into an ImageIcon and show this in a JLabel. This can then easily go inside of the JScrollPane.
* You can also create a graphics JPanel that overrides the paintComponent, draw the image in that and show that inside of the JScrollPane.
* don't call paint() directly. Call repaint if you want the graphic to repaint.
Here's a trivial example quickly put together:
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.GradientPaint;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Paint;
import java.awt.RenderingHints;
import java.awt.geom.Ellipse2D;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import javax.swing.JApplet;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
public class BsfCrap extends JApplet
    private JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel();
    private JScrollPane scrollPane;
    private JPanel graphicsPanel = new JPanel()
        @Override
        protected void paintComponent(Graphics g)
            super.paintComponent(g);
            Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
            RenderingHints rh = new RenderingHints(
                RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
                RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
            g2d.setRenderingHints(rh);
            Paint gPaint = new GradientPaint(0, 0, Color.blue,
                40, 40, Color.magenta, true);
            g2d.setPaint(gPaint);
            g2d.fill(new Ellipse2D.Double(0, 0, 800, 800));
    public BsfCrap()
        mainPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 400));
        mainPanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));
        graphicsPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(800, 800));
        graphicsPanel.setBackground(Color.white);
        scrollPane = new JScrollPane(graphicsPanel);
        scrollPane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(300, 300));
        mainPanel.add(scrollPane);
    public JPanel getMainPanel()
        return mainPanel;
    @Override
    public void init()
        try
            SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(new Runnable()
                public void run()
                    setSize(new Dimension(400, 400));
                    getContentPane().add(new BsfCrap().getMainPanel());
        catch (InterruptedException e)
            e.printStackTrace();
        catch (InvocationTargetException e)
            e.printStackTrace();
}

M1536DNF Duplex garbled mess, Lion, Snow Leopard and Win 7

I've had my M1536DNF for about a year now, everything has been fine, great printer, no issues whatsoever until recently.
I attempted to print some flight information, set it for 2 sided and thought nothing of it, went over to collect print job, the sides facing me are fine, the back side was almost entirely horizontal lines, some text did print top and bottom though. Exactly the same result on second attempt. As I was going away, I didn't have time to mess with it so I printed single sided and promptly forgot about it. This was with a Mac OSX Lion.
Month or so later, my partner was trying to print a document from her Win 7 laptop, same issues, multiple attempts and nothing useful on the back side. Transferred the files to another Mac - Snow Leopard and still same issues.
I've re-booted the printer, cleaned the printer, downloaded new drivers (which are not available for Lion yet so I don't know how this thing is working at all). Nothing seems to get it up and running again properly. Has something died on my printer or is this a software issue. I'm guessing hardware as the issue is 100% reproduceable from multiple machines, multiple operating systems.
At no point have I seen an error from the printer or print utility.

Scratch all of that. The issue is Chrome - the beta print panel seems to destroy the duplex side.
Turn it off with these instructions.
http://maketecheasier.com/enable-disable-google-chrome-print-preview/2011/04/13
Thanks Google!

Xcelsius 2008 and Flex SDK

Hello all,
I'm new to Xcelsius and Flex SDK and I don't get any information about that:
For what do I exactly need Flex SDK? Only if I want to implement a new template for Xcelsius like a "better" property-panel?
I also want to know, when I want to store data out of my dashboard, can I use and handle them directly in a Web Dynpro environment?
Does anyone have experience with that or could help?
Thanks in advance
best wishes, Bonita

Hi Bonita,
Xcelsius provides standard set of visual components, but in some situation we might need some functionality that is note there in standard set of components. That is where flex comes into picture with the help of Flex SDK we can develop custom components and then use the Xcelsius SDK to compile and use that as an add on inside Xcelsius. Custom build components are also available in marketplace (we can opt from a large set of variants, developed in Flex & Xcelsius SDK). Flex coding is mostly done in MXML and events are Handeled with Action Script.
Note : We need Flex SDK along with Xcelsius SDK only when we need to create some custom component. Xcelsius SDK can be downloaded from SAP Website or can be installed during Setup installation.
Data can be exported out of Xcelsius with the help of External Interface connection. Sample is available in the extracted installation file. Data exchange is Handeled with scripting language. Don't know Web Dynpro environment supports the scripting or not.
Good Luck

Problem with spark:resize effect and constraint-layout

Hi,
maybe its just a missuderstanding, but how i an get this to work.
Also move effects doesnt seem to work.
Does somebody have a Link, where I can get deeeper in constraints and spark.effects?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
                xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
                xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
                minWidth="955" minHeight="600"
                width="100%" height="100%"
                currentState="State1"
                initialize="init()">
     <s:layout>
         <s:BasicLayout/>
     </s:layout>
    <fx:Script>
         <![CDATA[
             import flash.utils.Timer;
             import flash.events.TimerEvent;
             import flash.events.Event;
            private var timer:Timer;
             private function init():void {
                 timer = new Timer(5000);
                 timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, switcher);
                 timer.start();
             public function switcher(event:TimerEvent):void {
                 if (currentState =="State1") {
                     currentState = "State2";
                 } else {
                     currentState = "State1";
         ]]>
     </fx:Script>
     <s:states>
         <s:State name="State1"/>
         <s:State name="State2"/>
     </s:states>
     <s:transitions>
         <s:Transition fromState="State1" toState="State2">
             <s:Resize target="{mainPanel}" />
         </s:Transition>
         <s:Transition fromState="State2" toState="State1">
             <s:Resize target="{mainPanel}" />
         </s:Transition>
     </s:transitions>
    <s:Panel id="mainPanel"
             horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0"
              width.State1="250" height.State1="200"
              horizontalCenter.State2="0" verticalCenter.State2="0"
              left.State2="20" right.State2="20" top.State2="10" bottom.State2="50">
     </s:Panel>
</s:Application>

I think there are bugs in this area for transitioning an objects size between states where two different sizing mechanisms are in play.
If you transition from constraints to constraints or from width/height to width/height it should work better:
    <s:Panel id="mainPanel"
             horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0"
             left.State1="200" right.State1="200" top.State1="100" bottom.State1="500"
             left.State2="20" right.State2="20" top.State2="10" bottom.State2="50">

MOV vs. DV in converting video 8

i was in the midst of converting my old video 8 camcorder tapes to DV files by playing my camcorder through a analog-to-digital converter and saving the output in imovie. unfortunately, my camcorder failed and is only outputing black & white video. so, i'm trying to figure out the very best way to complete this project with my number one priority being maintaining as high quality (as high as it can be for video 8) video and audio as i can in the conversion and editing process so that i can avoid lossy steps and maintain long-term flexible format for future storage.
i've been trying to understand all the complicated options. most of the commercial conversion services seem to convert video 8 to mpeg-2 which would involve multiple lossy steps from conversion to my editing. i'm having trouble finding services that convert video 8 to full digital (uncompressed, lossless) output (like DV, i think). one company will convert to MOV format. i'm trying to understand how this is different from DV. i understand it's a lossless conversion and that it's a container for DV. but is it true that imovie won't import MOV? if i need a conversion from MOV to another format (like DV?), is this a lossy step? is there any quality disadvantage to MOV vs. DV? i'd really appreciate any clarification as i'm having trouble figuring out these details from all my reading so far.

Beverly Maneatis wrote:
As stated, the quality you get is only as good as your source. Analog footage is still lower quality than digital. That said, my digital version of VHS footage looked better than the original.
I converted all my old analog VHS and Hi-8 tapes to DV footage using a miniDV camcorder. But, instead of connecting it directly to my computer, I did it in two steps. First, I recorded the analog tapes to miniDV tapes using a miniDV camcorder. I have a Sony and it does have a CTRL/REC button in Playback mode, so recording was easy. I connected my Hi-8 player to the camcorder and just played it as the camcorder recorded.
Then, I connected the camcorder to my computer and imported the .DV footage from the miniDV tapes into iMovie. I am still using iMovie 6, and .dv is its preferred format for video, so it worked beautifully. The VHS video actually looked quite a bit better as digital dv; I thought the Hi-8 footage looked about the same. I chose to use this two-step method because my VHS tapes were already degrading and I wanted to convert them all before they became completely useless. This method allowed me to import the dv footage from the miniDV tapes as I needed it without worrying that the quality would go down if it took me a few months to get to the point where I needed that particular footage.
In addition, I now have all the raw video digitized on tape.
For my purposes of creating DVDs from nicely edited iMovies of our old family photos and videos, this method worked great. I now have a DVD collection of these family treasures from 1890s to June of 2010. I am working on the 2010 iMovies now. It was, of course, much easier to do this with video shot from about 1999 and later after we got our digital camcorder and I did not have to do any conversions.
Beverly,
What makes you think commercial video conversion house can not do any better than what Ziatron suggested?
Consumers always vote with their wallet especially in this tough economy. Don't you think they would all go out of business if people figured out a cheap and perfect way to convert analog to digital? They would, but some have not.
Secondly, I suspect that the apparent improvement in your analog to digital conversion is probably not due to the conversion, but due to the newer and better HDTV panels with excellent upconversion circuitry. I have several commercial made Hollywood DVDs that played fine on our old Sony CRT tube TV and our new Panasonic Alpha-IPS panel HDTV. Guess what. It looked 2x better on the Alpha panel. In fact, digital photos played on the Alpha panel looked heck a lot sharper and vibrant than an old tube TV. Also, the LCD display on your camcorder does not display a high resolution video image. Modern LCD panels on some digital compacts with 920k pixels display can display almost life like videos over the same video footage.
In fact during the mid 80 to 90s, some companies lied to their customers how well their film compact cameras did. Most notable was Minolta. It was a known fact that certain Minolta film compact models can not capture sharp photos. And during that time, Fuji Film came out with their first Frontier photo lab which can do digital manipulation to get a better looking photo. Minolta printed their film with the Frontier and the prints came out sharp, vibrant and with good contrast. Trade shows after shows, I was surprised and baffled as to how a POS camera with a poor lens can somehow magically turn out great photos. Only later when customers bought their cameras and complaints started pouring in that we found out that unless you use a Frontier lab to print photos, normal labs will show how bad their cameras were.
Having said that, analog to digital conversion hinges on how well the source analog video is. The key is a good analog to digital converter, not DV media. Digital is 1 and 0. Analog can be 1, 1.1, 1.2 etc.. Digital conversion need good sampling rate of the analog signal to recreate a digital equivalent. Digital media and compression rate has nothing to do with how good the final conversion looks like. First, the lens on the camcorder has to be of good quality. Likewise, no amount of super analog to digital conversion is going to make a poor lens look like a million bucks. Minolta tried it and got caught! Most people confuse about how well their digital conversion is andd recommended the same process to their friends. Unfortunately, not everyone owns a similar quality camcorder and even with the same process, you will not produce the same results. This has been my experiencce.
One of the advantages of going with a commercial entity is that their equipment should at least be caliberated (meaning head alignment). When is the last time you followed your camcorder service schedule and have the head and transport mechanism checked or serviced? I am willing to bet that the answer would be a no to a lot of people. How can you then achieve the best conversion quality if these variables are not even looked at?

Openbox is perfect for me, only ONE thing left to do...

well, after ALOT of googling and searching and maybe ~100 reboots ive got everything just the way i want it with my system and openbox. its been fun trying to set everything straight and when everything goes the way i want, the happy feeling you get... cant describe it
well now on to my question. as stated above ive only got one major thing left i want to do with my system. i want to be able to have different wallpapers on different desktops in openbox. currently im setting my desktop wallpaper with nitrogen.
well ive searched alot on this too but havent found anything. i were more concentraiting on getting everything basic done. so with only one thing left i thought id ask the community
sorry for my english and thanks to everyone that replies to this thread!

wallpapoz works with openbox!
But .. I use an ugly way:
1. when in openbox I start gnome-panel from terminal. (then from gnome menus I have to set my custom unfinished theme because gnome can't find some icons in openbox)
2. from another terminal I start
$wallpapoz &
and click "restart" in wallpapoz settings.
3. close wallpapoz setting window.
4. then I kill gnome-panel in the terminal with Ctrl_C.
P.S.
I was thinking about another alternatives:
1. I've heard there's a compiz plugin (but because compiz was much slower than beryl on my radeon 9200 I'm not very keen to try that.) - using and activating off-screen pixmaps should work fast.
2. write my own, but I don't see a big usefullness at the moment...
3. don't use any wallpapers when work but sometimes enjoy (what other usefullness of them, anyway?) them with screen saver or browser or other progs.
4. To recognize in which desktop am I - use some different background widgets like cairo-clock with different theme, bet maybe panels with different icons is sufficient?...
5 Someone will write and I might find it later...

Lenovo max resolution: just sad

Why is Lenovo settling with these cheap consumer display panels, even on their high end machines, while the technology for better display panels obviously is there ?
Am I the only one thinking this is not enough ?
A comparison:
New IPad: $500
2048 x 1536, 9.7"
263.92 PPI, 0.0962mm dot pitch
The best Lenovo has to offer, W520: $2000 - $3000
1920 x 1080, 15"
146.86 PPI, 0.173mm dot pitch
Just sad.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi, A,
    Lenovo, Dell, HP and the rest of the laptop makers don't manufacture panels, so you are going to see 1920x1080 as the max. resolution until the panel manufacturers decide it's economical to have seperate assembly lines for computers and high-def TVs. That's not likely to be anytime soon.
    I'm a developer, too, and I can't imagine having to work off my 15.6" screen (except when I'm waiting for the dentist ). As, you can see from my signature line, I'm running 3 28" WUXGA screens (0.309mm dp), and may go to a fourth. I have SQL Server, Oracle, VS 2010, Eclipse, Firefox, etc etc all open at once. How in the world do you function?
    You are also focused on high res and fine dot pitch. The finer the dot pitch, the smaller the text. My eyesight is ok, but I would rather not squint at many lines of tiny fonts, but that's just me. Sure like the dot pitch on these big monitors!
    Please enlighten me. Why is the W520 panel inadequate? I think it looks pretty darn good.
                                                                     Best, ZZ

Is there a way to make the Markers panel work better with the Source panel?

My workflow is to first cut a multi-cam project (but it could be any long clip), then watch it all over again to make notes about what to keep and what to kick. So after I'm done cutting the initial rough cut of the entire hour or two of footage, I'll set focus to the Markers panel and begin watching the entire clip from the beginning to make notes as markers within the clip.
I'll play the clip back in the Source monitor and when something interesting happens, I'll type "M" on the keyboard. This places a marker in the clip (or multi-cam clip in my case). Without stopping the clip, I'll pick up my mouse and tap the Markers tab in the notes section for the last marker laid down. I'll type a note (something like "S" for interesting "Shot" or "HUGS" or "DANCING" to indicate the main action occuring at this point in the clip, or "Mike: Are we there, yet?" for a key dialog point). Next, I'll move my mouse back to the Source panel (the video has not stopped this entire time) and give any gray area of the Source panel a tap just to activate it. I'll watch for the next point of interest and repeat the process. M to mark. Move to the Markers panel. Tap the last marker. Type some notes. Move back to the Source panel and tap to give the panel focus. This works fairly well, but could be tuned, with just a few options, to make it more streamlined for this type of use.
What I'd like to be able to do is never leave the keyboard AND use minimal keyboard shortcuts. A perfect workflow might be:
1. Start playing the clip in the Source panel.
2. Type "M" to drop a marker. Focus would AUTOMATICALLY move to the notes section of that marker within the Markers panel, while the video continues to play on in the Source panel.
3. I type my notes into the Markers panel and hit Enter, or CTRL+Enter, which returns focus to the Source panel.
This would allow me to quickly build a list of markers and notes about a clip or sequence without ever stopping and without once touching my mouse (unless I get behind and need to backup). Currently, the only time I really get behind is when clicking on a window and not realizing that focus was not given to that window, so that when I hit "M" again, for example, I don't actually create a new marker, but rather add the letter "M" to my most recent Marker note.
All of this seems a very common task for anyone who works in reality TV, or even event videography. Who's with me? Can this be done already? If not, I'll submit a feature request. How would you make this feature better?

Sounds like you did this on the fly.
MM is supposed to open the Marker Panel Dialogue
M just sets a marker
Not sure if either are intended for on the fly during playback .
There is also a Marker Icon on the Source Window Pane >>

Flex 4 Beta 2 and Halo Panels

Hi all.
I'm banging my head against a wall here, and wondered if someone else could help me out!
I'm working on a project which utilises a 3rd party open source control based on Halo Panels. It would take quite a bit of time to re-write this control to be Spark based.
As part of the project spec, the application must be dynamically skinnable to allow easy customisation. This means the look and feel has been done mostly using embedded images within a CSS file, setting background images and other styles that support images. These can be loaded at runtime, and everyone was happy.
Attached is a screenshot called Flex3Screenshot. This shows the look that was desired in the app : "Glossy" panel headers and a light border around the panel.
Then, it was decided that we should be using Flex 4 Beta 2, not the previous 3.4 SDK. (The version I'm using is the standard vanilla 4.0.0.10485)
Mostly, the transition has been OK. I've changed many controls from Halo to Spark as appropriate, but this wasn't possible with the Goozo controls, so we've had to stick with Halo panels as the containers.
I'm now trying to bring back the old "dark" look and feel, and this is where I'm having trouble!
I've attached a massively cut-down FlexBuilder project with a simple style sheet, a single glossy title bar image, and an MXML app with a panel in it.
No matter what I do, I can't get the CSS to work in the same way, because the panel always has a 2 pixel wide border underneath its header. This border is made up of the panels base header colour which has the bitmap put over the top, leaving a small gap.
I can "remove" this, by setting the baseColor property to black, but the baseColor property seems to override the borderColor property, so I don't have borders any more, which "Isn't What We Want"(tm).
Setting the headerColors doesn't seem to work in Flex 4 (I've checked, and it works fine in Flex 3, and if it worked, I could spoof the glossy look by just setting a white to black gradient in the header colours), or set the header colour to black and overlay the image.
I can use the nasty kludge of -theme=${flexlib}/themes/Halo/halo.swc in the command line properties, but that's like admitting defeat! (and I can't guarantee that it will always work!)
Does anyone have any ideas? As far as I'm aware, I should be able to create an MXML skin component (as per http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/05/02/changing-the-title-bar-background-fill-on-a-spark- panel-container-in-flex-gumbo/), but as far as I know, I won't then be able to dynamically skin it with a CSS file.
Many thanks.
Pete

Hi,
Unfortunately this doesn't have anything to do with the FlexUnit code itself. These are bugs inside of the Flash Builder plugin. You may want to post on their forum as well to try to get some support.
The only advice I can offer, is that things seem to work much better if I consistently use the Execute FlexUnit Tests, which can be found under the run button. They work much less well if I right click and tell it to execute tests.
Mike

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