Disable Auto Orientation only in a specific frame!

Hi there!
I appreciate if you please guide me with your experience in Mobile App design.
My App contains 5 frames of data (movieclips), that each frame has 2 designs:
1- Stand mode design    (portrait)
2- Wide mode design     (landscape)
So far it works great and I have published my App both on Google Play and Apple Store.
Frames structure is as follows:
frame   1            Loads External Data
frames 2-6         Each frame contains 1 MovieClip designed based on mobile "Stand mode"
frames 22-26     Each frame contains 1 MovieClip designed based on mobile "Wide mode"
(Example: contents of frame 2 and 22 are the same, also 3 & 23 ... 6 & 26)
(frame 2 is STAND design, 22 is WIDE design, and so on)
In "Air Setting Dialoge", I have selected aspect ratio "Auto" and "Auto orientation".
And I have this code in Frame 1 to do the rotation trick:
stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, resizeLayout);
function resizeLayout(e:Event):void
               setPosition();
function setPosition():void
        //Phone turned from "Wide" to "Stand"
               if (stage.stageWidth < stage.stageHeight)
                              //App is now in "Wide" mode - means between frame 22 to 26
                              if (currentFrame>20)
                                             //go to the same position of App but in "Stand" mode
                                             gotoAndStop(currentFrame - 20);
               else
                              //Phone turned from "Stand" to "Wide"
                              if (currentFrame<20)
                    //go to the same position of App but in "Wide" mode
                     gotoAndStop(currentFrame + 20);
Well, and finally my question:
1- Is this way I have programed my App to rotate, a proper approach?!
      (in this way I can easily arrange objects on screen and also position them based on math calculations)
2- If I want to disable auto rotation only when app reaches specific frames, what should I do??
   (for example I want the app Not to auto oriente in Frame 6 and 26., but it rotates in other frames)
Hope it was not confusing and I cant wait to check out your valuable guidance!
All the best and thanks a lot for your time.

Hi there all!!
Still I have no answer for my question No1, BUT I could find my answer to the 2nd question and here it is for your kind notice:
Special thanks to Daniel Dura
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/screen_orientation_apis.html
I just added this code to my first Frame:
stage.addEventListener(StageOrientationEvent.ORIENTATION_CHANGING, onOrientationChanging);
function onOrientationChanging(event:StageOrientationEvent ):void
if (currentFrame == 6 || currentFrame == 26)
event.preventDefault();

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Android is really rough but gives you more granular control over the minimum and maximum size and resolution of the device. You can clearly mark in your apps android settings that you only support say, 7"-10" devices with a resolution of a certain size (marked as ldpi, mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi). For more info and what all those settings mean, read here: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html
xlarge screens are at least 960dp x 720dp
large screens are at least 640dp x 480dp
normal screens are at least 470dp x 320dp
small screens are at least 426dp x 320dp
Staying inside xlarge keeps you in the 7-10" safe range for a larger tablet like the Galaxy.

Disable auto-updates/Adobe Application Manager

there is no forum for this - I use Illustrator and Photoshop CS6 non-CC on macbook pro running 10.8.5 or 10.9.2. I would like to not have AAM search for updates in the background, but initiate the **search** for updates manually. The reason is that I live a bit off the grid and pay quite a lot per minute, and AAM kept the internet connection open the whole night, even though the browser said it was closed.
I only found instructions for CS5:
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/disable-auto-updates-application-manager.html
does this work for CS6 the same way? I am by no means a system admin but I can replace this AdobeUpdaterPrefs.dat file. (and keep the original else where)
thanks.
edit: why on earth does adobe insist on displaying my real name in a public forum, when it even asks me to make a screen name first. There is no forum for this either, I guess.

... adobe insist on displaying my real name in a public forum...
that is gone, thanks.

IE11 can't post form data to specific frame or window dialog opened via window.open()

Hello,
Form POST targeting to specific frame or dialog popped up via window.open() no longer works in IE11.
It worked fine in IE10 and all previous versions of IE.
Please see screenshot attached with simple test that reproduces this problem.
Direct Link to screenshot:
http://173.231.98.44/cgi/TestFolder/IE_11_widow_frame_targeting_BUG.jpg
Direct link to simple test page demonstrating this problem:
http://173.231.98.44/cgi/TestFolder/page2.asp
Note: IE11 doesn't report any errors, doesn't complain about anything, even when debugged via F12 developer tools. The only thing it complained initially was missing doc type declaration on top of page, but even after adding doc type definition, problem still
persists, makes no difference.
I tested this on fresh install of Windows 2012R2 while testing our web application with the new IE11.
I believe doing this on Windows 8.1 with IE11 will result in same bug/problem.
Our web application uses a technique whereby it launches a popup window via call to window.open(), passing blank URL and specifying a name for the new window. It then does a from post targeting the name of new dialog.
In IE11 this functionality has been broken and no longer works.
Problem is that IE11, instead of posting form to the newly created dialog, it launches a new instance of IE and then loads the requested form in this new instance of IE, while the dialog launched via window.open() remains on screen and is empty. If user repeats
launching same form post request (via button click for example), IE 11 keeps creating new empty dialogs and new IE instance for every form post executed. This totally breaks our application because we use many so called "wizards" that encapsulate
specific functionality in separate web page launched in a popup window.
Another related problem is that if a dialog is launched with window.open(), the java script code in the dialog can not target the parent frame that opened the dialog anymore. In our application, when a dialog is closed, it typically needs to trigger a refresh
of a specific frame within the parent window (again targeted by name) to reflect saved/updated info that user entered in the popup dialog. The result is that we can't refresh the parent frame after the pop up dialog closes. Instead, IE11 launches
a new instance of IE (not just a tab, but a whole new instance) and loads the parent frame in it.
The problem seems to be caused by broken frame name targeting mechanism in IE11.
Note that we force IE to compatibility mode 5, but even without specifying any compatibility, the problem remains.
Typical java script to reproduce this is:
<input type="button" onClick="Popup(this.form);" name="btn2" value="Popup Dialog">
function Popup(f){
    window.open("","MyNewDialogName","width=200,height=150");
    f.action = "page3.asp";
    f.target = "MyNewDialogName";
    f.submit();
Expected: IE11 should correctly post form to and load targeted page in the newly popped up dialog, without opening new IE instance and new tab. Repeatedly posting form to existing popup window should reuse that window, not keep on launching more popup windows
and then more IE instances.
Steps to reproduce the problem (include URL if applicable):
URL with sample page: http://173.231.98.44/cgi/TestFolder/page2.asp
1) Create page1.htm: <html><body>display "I'm in a popup window now ..."</body></html>
2) Create page2.htm with a button and onclick() event calling function to open dialog, and do form POST targeting new dialog calling page1.htm, like below.
<input type="button" onClick="Popup(this.form);" name="btn2" value="Popup Dialog"> function Popup(f){
    window.open("","MyNewDialogName","width=200,height=150");
    f.action = "page1.asp";
    f.target = "MyNewDialogName";
    f.submit();
3) Open IE11, navigate to page2.htm, click the "Popup Dialog" dialog button. IE 11 will popup the new dialog, but then it will also launch new instance of IE11 and display the page1.htm in it, instead of in the popup dialog.
Has anyone else encountered this problem?
Any insight or help is appreciated.
Regards
Peter

the default action of <input type="button" is submit. Note also that the default type of <button> elements is 'submit' also.
add a return false to the onclick inline event handler (which constructs the form submit attribues) to cancel the default form.submit behavior.
form elements have a target value with which you can specify the name window into which you want the form to open in.
<form action="process.aspx" target="popup">
you can use the window.open method with a query uri to achieve the same outcome.
window.open('process.aspx?s=search+term&foo=bar','popup',{features})
the outcomes of all scripted windows are affected by
your IE Popup blocker and tabbed browsing settings
which in turn is affected by your IE Security zone settings (for popup blocking handling)
and the settings of any third-party popup blocker you may have installed and enabled... it may not necessarily be visible on your browser toolbar.
The first step in troubleshooting web browser issues is to test in no-addons mode.
Use the Developer Tool to find out what documentMode the test page is opening in on your system. On Modal/Modeless popup windows use the f12 key to display the Developer tool positioned on the contentWindow.
Use File>Properties to find out what IE Security zone it maps to... there is a security setting to prevent navigation into zones of lower integrity.
Rob^_^

How link from html page to a specific frame in flash cs5 as3

Hi!
I'm kinda new around here. I am interested in knowing how to link from a specific html page to a specific frame in flash cs5 as3.
I have a website that I originally began to design in flash but later started developing new pages for it in html. The flash part of it has several pages on different frames and I have created links from the flash part to the other html pages, but, I can only link the html pages back to the main flash home page, and not the other pages in the flash part of the website.
I have read that in cs3 it was possible using the flashvars skip variable, but I don't know how to do it. I have not yet seen any working examples and I could not find any instructions / tutorials online for cs5.
Can someone help here?

add a query string, to the swf's embedding html, with variable/value indicating the frame you want to display in your swf. add a javascript function to return the query string (or entire url), call the javascript function from flash using the externalinterface class. and finally add code to your swf to parse the returned url or query string, parse it and then direct your timeline to the appropriate frame.

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