Boolean operations on paths al la AI Pathfinder toolset

New to flash but wanted to tween some animation paths so thought I'd try it out. Is there an equivilent set of operations to AI's Pathfinder palette. I'm after the Subtract Front Object from Back Object function on paths? (Obviously) I can do in AI and bring into Flash but easier to stay in one app.

Thank you, your answer was helpful. The problem was occuring before I entered the the code you referred to. But your response made me realize that the problem did, indeed, have to do with code that was running during the upload. I isolated the problem to the progress bar logic, which I suspect is not a coding error, but just too many cycles for the player to put up with during a long upload. I am now searching for another method of displaying upload status without a tight piece of code that loops a lot.
Thank you again kglad!

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Here I am trying to create a 'Calculated Key Figure' with some logical expression to verify the value of other columns(ie: stock value = 0, market value = 0...etc) and I would like to calculate the result 'Before Aggregation'; Somehow, the calculated key figure with Boolean Operator can not be chosen as 'Before Aggregation'. I tried to create 2nd CKF to include the 1st CKF so that I am able to select the 2nd CKF as 'Before Aggregation', but the result just dont seem to be right.
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Instead of creating a calculated Key Figure, create a formula in the query and try whether it is giving a desired output??

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Munna
Attachments:
Formula String to Boolean operations.zip ‏30 KB

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A quick suggestion (I am not sure where to post this).
Wouldn't it be great if when replacing a boolean operation i.e. AND with its compound arithmetic equivalent (to add and extra input for example), the compound arithmetic could default to the correct mode. (It seems to default to OR)
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While you would hope that NI follows the forums and picks up product suggestions by reading them, usually someone comes on and recommends that it be submitted to the product suggesion webpage. Today, I'll let that person be me. http://digital.ni.com/applications/psc.nsf/default?OpenForm
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So I keep seeing this method of design on sites like dribbble or behance but I don't know how to do it!
Here's an example:
Basically a bunch of circles are used to create this awesome shape and design. I have a general idea on how to use the pathfinder tool and I have used it a lot in the past, but how do you snap circles together with smart guides? It seems that the smart guides only snap based on 90 or 45 angles and don't snap edges of objects together unless there are two anchors.
Here's an example:
I want to use the curves from 2 circle shapes to make a complex path. But I can't get the two paths to snap together
Ultimately to create something like the raindrop image above. I want to use the perfect curves on circles to create more complex shapes but since the paths do not snap together, I'm just eyeballing it to be close enough to do something with the pathfinder tool. I have tried many ways to solve this but I cannot figure anything out.
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Kyle,
Presuming you wish to move one circle to snap to another circle at a certain predetermined angle, and you have it placed at a distance at that angle you may (Smart Guides are your friends):
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In my query i need to add a field Count which shows number.
Meaning,
Column A   ColumnB ColumnC Count
100               50            0            2
55                60             76         3
79                0               0           1
meaning from all three column only two has values then Count should show 2. etc....
any suggestion how to use boolean expression here ?
or anyother way to display Count ?
thanks,
KS

Hi thanks for idea.
boolean didnt work here. the formulau sugested worked...
But i wrote formula for the Count --> COUNT("overtime") and for the Count property I selected Calculate Result As --> Summation fo Rounded Values
so the output is as follows:
i had data for 3 payperiods
Count (1st 3 columns)                    overall result(last Column)
200801     200802     200803
1                 0             1                         2
1                1              1                         3
0                1             0                         1
Now the out put i wanted is in the last column -Result column.
I dont want Count column to be display like this. it is showing values instead of total. any this i should change for this?
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can anybody imagine a publishing-surrounding, in which it would be appropriate to use the "OR"-Operator?
If you can't imagine such a surrounding, please let me know too.
Best regards,
Klaus

Sure. I can come up with several real world examples, here's one. Imagine a cascading level of privilege for published material - Unclassified, Classified, Secret, and Top Secret. I have all of these levels represented in my repository and I use conditional tagging to mark the content appropriately.
Because the level is cascading, each security level can view its own level and all those below it. For example, if I have Secret clearance, I'm also allowed to view Unclassified and Classified material. So, to publish for Secret-level users, I use a conditional logic of including content that is tagged for Unclassified OR Classified OR Secret.
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I'm in sign business. We use illustrator to prepare files to cut vinyl stickers (foil) on a cutting plotter.
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There are 2 requirements for cutting vinyl:
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A combination of positive and negative offset effects with "round" selected, stacked on top of eachother, does the job.
The negative offset does remove some parts however.
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A function would be desired that, let's say, removes parts that are extremely small (for example 1 squared mm). Other small parts should be made somewhat thicker.
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See the following image:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8911045/example.png
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No special filter that does all the magic, unfortunately
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You would be better off just carefully thinking through the steps that you find yourself doing repeatedly, and then consider the portions of them that can be at least semi-automated by recording a macro (so-called "Actions" in Illustrator).
Most of the functions you need to automate are commands in the standard interface. That's the domain of macros, not scripts. And macros are much simpler to tweak on-the-fly than scripts.
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Sets stroke attributes
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Changes fill to white
Sends to back
Groups
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That macro is run with a single click dozens of times in the course of processing a single drawing. The first step (Simplify) often needs different settings for DXFs from different sources. It's a simple thing to do a couple of tests and tweak the parameters of that one step in a given session.
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Hi,
what do you mean by "boolean function"?
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You have to give more info about your problem.
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written a method with two parameters in AM.
exposed the method in AM client interface
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The sql embedded in the dataset is:
IF @reportID <> 0
BEGIN
SELECT 'Students report 1' AS selectRptName, 1 AS rptNumValue
UNION
SELECT 'Students report 2', 2
UNION
SELECT 'Students report 3', 3
UNION
SELECT 'Students report 4', 4
UNION
SELECT 'Students report 5', 5
ORDER BY selectRptName
END
The sql runs fine in managment studio when I declare @reportID.
The sql runs fine with I comment out 'IF @reportID <> 0'.
The @reportID is a parmeter value that is passed to the applicable dataset.
The @reportID can have more than one value.
Thus can you show me sql and/or tell me what I need to do to solve the issue for me?

Hi wendy,
After testing the issue in my environment, I can reproduce it when I select more than one values in the @reportID parameter drop-down list. As per my understanding, it seems that you are trying to filter the dataset with the @reportID parameter. When it
doesn’t contain value ‘0’, the dataset returns values. Otherwise, no value is returned in the dataset.
If in this scenario, we can achieve this requirement with filters in the dataset. For more details, please refer to the following steps:
Modify the dataset with the below query:
SELECT 'Students report 1' AS selectRptName, 1 AS rptNumValue
UNION
SELECT 'Students report 2', 2
UNION
SELECT 'Students report 3', 3
UNION
SELECT 'Students report 4', 4
UNION
SELECT 'Students report 5', 5
ORDER BY selectRptName
Click the Filters in the left pane of Dataset Properties dialog box.
Add a filter as below:
Expression: =INSTR(JOIN(Parameters!reportID.Value,","),"0")>0
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Operator: =
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The following screenshot is for your reference:
If there are any other questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
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After testing the issue in my environment, I can reproduce it when I select more than one values in the @reportID parameter drop-down list. As per my understanding, it seems that you are trying to filter the dataset with the @reportID parameter. When it
doesn’t contain value ‘0’, the dataset returns values. Otherwise, no value is returned in the dataset.
If in this scenario, we can achieve this requirement with filters in the dataset. For more details, please refer to the following steps:
Modify the dataset with the below query:
SELECT 'Students report 1' AS selectRptName, 1 AS rptNumValue
UNION
SELECT 'Students report 2', 2
UNION
SELECT 'Students report 3', 3
UNION
SELECT 'Students report 4', 4
UNION
SELECT 'Students report 5', 5
ORDER BY selectRptName
Click the Filters in the left pane of Dataset Properties dialog box.
Add a filter as below:
Expression: =INSTR(JOIN(Parameters!reportID.Value,","),"0")>0
Type: Boolean
Operator: =
Value: false
The following screenshot is for your reference:
If there are any other questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Katherine Xiong
Katherine Xiong
TechNet Community Support

Optional operations on extended data type

Hello everyone,
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The first thing the application does is it loads
records from the database - whcih in most cases are
MyRecord objects. Afterwards statistics are
calculated for the whole set of records.
In case all records are of type ExtendedMyRecord
additional operations may be performed.That description doesn't sound good to me.
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Your description sounds like you are mixing 1 and 3 (and perhaps throwing 2 in as well.)
That is always wrong. Because only the database layer should have 1 and 2. 3 is entirely seperate from 1 and 2 and should be kept that way.
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- CustomerCollection, contains a list of Customer.
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blias wrote:
I have a boolean array, whose elements are initialized to false...
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