CS4 & CS5 focus stealing when debugger writes to output panel
I have an incredibly frustrating problem going back to CS4. I'm running on Win7 with dual monitors. After hours, days, or weeks while running a FLA through the debugger, the IDE gets into a bad state. Any time the debugger outputs text into the output panel (via trace), the IDE will 'steal' focus from whatever app I'm in. So if i'm writing an email, it will suddenly jump focus to CS5. If there's a lot of debug trace spew, it's impossible to work. It steals focus from flash player itself too, so the app continuously 'loses focus and I have to go find it again.
The other symptom associated with this is if the FLA I'm debugging hits an exception/crash, the flash IDE AND flash player freeze. I must close the player in order to get the IDE to respond again.
Non-solutions (these don't work)
1. Restarting IDE
2. Cold boot
3. System restore to an older version
Solutions:
Usually, uninstalling and reinstalling the IDE solves this. ***
***However, recently, not even reinstalling the IDE solves this. I even tried using adob'e "cleanup tool" prior to reinstall. I had to reinstall my entire Win7 OS. This was 2 days ago, and today, the problem already came back. I haven't found any information on this anywhere after extensive searching.
My system is a cookie cutter win7 installation with latest system updates, plus this software:
Eclipse for PHP debugging
Xampp171 (apache, mysql, phpmyadmin)
utorrent
skype
chrome w/ default flash player
explorer w/ debug flash player
Any light shed on this issue would be very highly appreciated.
Thanks ahead!
Yeah... I think CS5 thinks it's doing things correctly.
It tries to keep the proportions the same as the original composition.
I did an experiment where I scaled the the same circle in the output module to 100x360. CS5 writes AR info in the file that tries to still keep the 16:9 proportions - the result looks horrible.
I usually work with widescreen PAL footage (PAR 1,46). 720x576.
We send a scaled down version to clients for preview purposes, so we scale the 720x576 image to 640x360. Crop 4 pixels from the top and bottom to make the height 352 (dividable by 16, better for compression)
Now the scaled down clip has jagged edges from the CS5 aspect ratio correction. If there were no AR info written in the file, the result would look perfect, like it was in CS3 and CS4.
Is there a way to turn it off in CS5?
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