Can't see paint strokes
Ok, I am really new to Motion,so this may be an obvious question.
I am using the paint feature to animate some lines moving across the scren. I am using the write on behavior with write and erase.
I got three pretty good lines going in one group but when I go to ad the fourth, it show that it is there onthe timeline, and when selected I can see the object box move across the screen where the stroke is supposed to be but I can't see the stroke.
Even whe nI take write erase and change it to just write, I still get the box and no stroke. I checked it against all the setting for my other strokes and nothing seems to be different.
Any ideas? I am sure it probably pretty obvious, and Iam just missing it. It's definitely frustrating me.
Thanks!
Hi Ben,
I too am new to motion and I am also having the same problem. I just went down to the Apple Store and the Motion guy couldn't figure out why it was happening either. So I went on to post here and I'm not alone.
The strokes I have difficulty with are the ones with the .mov attached. My strokes are all in different layers, are directly on top of each other and are duplicates of each other but with different styles, as the top one writes the bottom one erases. I am very careful in making sure when I duplicate a layer and then move it to the top layer, that I wait for the green+ so I'm sure it's a new layer. I did learn that the in-point needs to be at the very beginning to get the .mov files to behave properly. Most of the time when I reapply the stroke style, leaving everything in the layer the same, it does start to work. I just re-apply the stroke leaving the .mov file where it is. Not a good solution. Then I pray it continues to work!
Lori
I hope we get some answers
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// Directory: c:\myjava\teaching
// Date: 5/4/00
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import java.lang.*;
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solution5.add("button4");
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solution5.add("button8");
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solution9.add("button7");
solution9.add("button10");
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solution10.add("button2");
solution10.add("button6");
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myList.clear();
else {
combinationsFound++;
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Winner");
myList.clear();
repaint();
solutionsFound.add("solution18");
System.out.println("solutions found = " + solutionsFound);
else if(myList.equals(solution19)){
if(solutionsFound.contains("solution19")){
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Combinations already found");
myList.clear();
else {
combinationsFound++;
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Winner");
myList.clear();
repaint();
solutionsFound.add("solution19");
System.out.println("solutions found = " + solutionsFound);
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JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Combinations already found");
myList.clear();
else {
combinationsFound++;
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Winner");
myList.clear();
repaint();
solutionsFound.add("solution20");
System.out.println("solutions found = " + solutionsFound);
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JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Combinations already found");
myList.clear();
else {
combinationsFound++;
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Winner");
myList.clear();
repaint();
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System.out.println("solutions found = " + solutionsFound);
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myList.clear();
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JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Winner");
myList.clear();
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myList.clear();
else {
combinationsFound++;
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Winner");
myList.clear();
repaint();
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From [How To Ask Questions The Smart Way|http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]
[Volume is not precision|http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#volume] :
You need to be precise and informative. This end is not served by simply dumping huge volumes of code or data into a help request. If you have a large, complicated test case that is breaking a program, try to trim it and make it as small as possible.
This is useful for at least three reasons. One: being seen to invest effort in simplifying the question makes it more likely you'll get an answer, Two: simplifying the question makes it more likely you'll get a useful answer. Three: In the process of refining your bug report, you may develop a fix or workaround yourself.
Also please read up on god-objects (wikipedia has a write up on this) which is cured by dividing and conquering. Finally, you really need to simplify this code by using loops with your arrays. You can shorten this beast by over 70%, easy making it much, much easier to debug.
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Check the Motion 5 Manual page 1298...
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Nolan -
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And per my knowledge, option 3 is better. Because the CSS or JS files are stored at the local system of SharePoint server in option 3, it is faster than referring a file which is stored in database in option 2.
Generally, it depends based on your situation as you don’t like option 3 when the CSS or JS files are not accessible in SPD.
Thanks,
Victoria
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i'm trying to write a simple image viewer application.
Can you see the problem. i can't. i'll appreciate any advice or help?
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import java.awt.image.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
public class SimpleViewer extends Frame {
protected Image awtImage;
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Image img = readImage(filename);
awtImage = img;
int width = img.getWidth(this);
int height = img.getHeight(this);
displayImage(img, width, height);
public void displayImage(Image img, int width, int height) {
addWindowListener(
new WindowAdapter() {
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e){
System.exit(0);
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pack();
setSize(new Dimension(width, height));
show();
repaint();
public image readImage(String filename) {
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imageTracker.addImage(image, 0);
try{
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}catch(InterruptedException e){ return null;}
return image;
public void paint(Graphics g){
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if(args.length <1) {
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System.exit(0);
ip.loadAndDisplay(args[0]);
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public image readImage(String filename) {
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( hint : check variable names and capitalization of names )
- MaxxDmg...
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