Flash CS5 - IK - Constraints causing improper rotation tweens

I have a human model using Movie Clip (MC) parts rigged with IK Bones. Every MC part's transform is "zeroed out" this includes Scale and rotation.
When setting up the model I constrained each part.
When animating limbs like arms and legs they take a full rotation in the opposite direction than would be expected to make the tween. For example, during a walk the legs do not move along the ground but they rotate upward around her head.
I've troubleshot and determined the constraints cause this. When I remove the restraints the animation behaves as would be expected. I was also able to repeat this on different parts of the model.

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We normally create content files in Flash CS5.5 with dynamic text fields, which are set at runtime from our Framework (AS3 framework in FB4.6).
Now we are in the progress of language versioning, and since one of the languages is Arabic we are changing the dynamic text fields to TLF fields.
Then all my problems started.
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Please refere to the following articles .. you may find some help.
http://www.stevensacks.net/2010/05/28/flash-cs5-tlf-engine-causes-errors-with-loaded-swfs/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/preloading-tlf-rsl.html
I also faced similar problem and posted a question at the following link, but, I still couldn't find the solution.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4367968#4367968

In Macromedia Flash8 we had an option insert timeline effects rotate. Do we have any option to rotate an object in Adobe Flash cs5 and above

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Please help! I am just learning to use Flash CS5 Professional (aided by the "Flash Basics" tutorials of Lynda.com). I am presently trying to manipulate symbols as motion-tweens with the 3-D rotation tool found in the Flash toolbar. At the moment I'm trying to take a single word originally created as text, now a symbol, and animate it with motion-tweens so that it appears to be twirling on its x axis or y axis as though it's tumbling through the air like a coin.
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Thanks for writing back. No, I have not found anyone but you to even respond to my query. So much for the helpfulness of Adobe's much touted forums website.
Yes, you have articulated the problem nicely. This is exactly the trouble I am having with the 3-D tool!!! I've tried creating in-between key frames to help guide the correct/desired rotational movement, but even with these key frames, the motion-tween invariably "glitches" the rotation animation back to link to the original key pose the wrong way. I've tried full rotation of both type and objects via various axis, and this problem always surfaces. Seems like such a simple thing to tween for the 3-D tool. But my Flash CS5 is not up to the task, apparently, --and neither it seems are Flash Adobe Forum readers.
It's so sad that Flash is treated by Adobe like such a ******* child. Once Adobe's brand was synonymous with workhorse programming, and the integrity to fix what was wrong with a program quickly to make it better. But most of my professional colleagues warned me to stay away from BOTH Flash CS3 and CS4 because of their unreliability issues!!! What a sad state of affairs for Flash. Cartoon animators like me are crying out for a program which does what Flash does, minus the crashes, glitches, unreliability, and counter-intuitive user interface Flash has become infamous for. Industry wide, Adobe has gained the reputation of having turned its back on the animation community, because "there are not enough of us to matter monetarily." And so, by extension, it has left itself and it's ailing Flash program ripe for being bested by some hungry developers with the concern and the attention to give to perfecting a 2-D animation software program which actually delivers what it promises.
I keep clicking the "software update" button in my Flash program, thinking Adobe's next update will actually improve its performance. Dream on...
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Error message starting up Flash CS5 -- appears to be caused by welcome screen

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I am running windows 7 64-bit, flash player debug (10.1 from labs) and CS5 Master collection.
I staretd noticing an issue today -- Flash Professional CS5 has begun to freeze on opening it. I eventually get the message "a script in this movie is causing flash player to run slowly. if it continues to run, your computer might become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script?". At this point, I am not running any movies, I am just trying to open flash Pro CS5. When I choose to click "yes" (eg abort the script), then the buttons on the welcome screen do not work. When I click "no" (and do not abort the script) then flash crashes some time in the first 5 minutes of authoring.
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Flash CS5.5: Loading XML-file causes a "Security Sandbox Violation"

Hi,
after upgrading from CS3 to CS5.5, i get a "Security Sandbox Violation" when loading a XML-file. With CS3 everything was fine, but now my file is not working any more. The XML-file and my SWF-file are stored in the same directory and it nether work local nor on the webserver.
I don't know the correct message in english, but flash tells me something like:
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Adobe Flash CS5.5 Crashes while drawing/dragging objects.

I have experienced quite a few crashes trying out Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 Premium when it comes to using Flash Professional CS5.5. I have documented one of the crashes at a pastebin entry, which I will link it and an earlier crash log dump below.
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http://pastebin.com/YCWKAbhp
There is my pastebin of my latest crash, using an Adobe Flash document using ActionScript 2.0.
Alternatively, sometimes Flash CS5.5 will crash using ActionScript 3.0 as the language of choice, and oddly much quicker. One of those crashes can be found here: http://pastebin.com/pTSerErw
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Hi,
I am not sure if this is a "Master Page since we use a French version (the functionnality is named "Gabarit" in French), so here is a printscreen which shows what our users try to do:
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I fully patched one machine to 7.5.3, rebooted it and it still does not work.
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Elemants disapearing in flash cs5 leaving empty symbols (Movie-Clips) where the elemnt once was.

Hi,
I work for with Flash CS5 for an advertising company. We make banners and my job is to animate them. Lately I have been having a weird issue.
When I work on a flash file all is well, I save export and all, but later when I come back to the file for modifications some of my elements are disappearing?! Most of the elements are imported from illustrator CS5 and they seem OK when I leave but when I come back I see just empty Movie-Clips.Things seem to disappear without any logic, for example some text layers can disappear while some don’t.
This issue is frustrating since it's causing much work and I would really love to resolve it.
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that's a task much easier to do using actionscript rather than use the timeline. each location or parent location (if you want one parent for retail and one for residential etc) could have two keyframes. one for highlighted locations, the other for non-highlighted. you can timeline tween between the two keyframes, if you want.
your main timeline would not change frames. clicking the retail toggle button would cause all retail locations to tween to the highlighted frame. clicking it again, it should cause the retail locations to tween to the non-highlighted frame.
likewise for you other buttons and other locations.
this setup will remove the complications caused by having various combinations of buttons toggled on and off.

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Adobe Flash CS5 has encountered a problem and needs to close

Hi,
I have two laptops. I have installed Adobe Flash CS5 in my first laptop (Windows XP). When I start the application, it shows the following message:
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I have installed the Flash CS5 in my second laptop and it worked fine.
Error signature:
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try this also
1. Reset preferences:
To reset on Windows, delete:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data Adobe\Flash CS4\
C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashAuthor.cfg
To reset on Mac OS X, delete:
/Users/username/Library/Preferences/Flash CS4 Preferences
/Users/username/Library/Preferences/Flash 10 MRU
/Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.flsh-10.0.plist
/User/%username%/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Flash CS4/
/Library/Application Support/Macromedia/FlashAuthor.cfg
2. Install the latest Flash update if available.
3. Install the latest version of Flash.
4. Install current Windows service packs and other updates.
5. Run Flash in a simplified mode (Windows). / Run Flash in safe mode (MAC OS - Refer to http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404936.html)
Some applications or services may cause system errors or freezes when running concurrently with Flash. Services are specialized programs that perform functions to support other programs. Before starting Flash, disable other applications, including startup items (items that start automatically), and services.
To disable startup items and services, see "Disable startup items and services (Windows XP)" (TechNote kb404984).
To re-enable startup items and services:
1. Choose Start > Run, type msconfig, and click OK.
2. Choose Normal Startup on the General tab, click OK, and restart the computer.
Note: If unselected items were present on the Services or Startup tab, then you will need to unselect them again
6. Install Flash from the desktop.
7. Reinstall Flash in a simplified/safe (for MAC OS) mode.
8. Run Flash in a new user account.
9. Check for font problems.
10. Optimize handling of temporary files by Windows XP.
11. Set the virtual memory paging file to the default size.
12. Repair and defragment hard disks.
13. Scan the system for viruses.
14. Identify the file that causes the problem.
15. Install Adobe Flash CS4 on a different computer.

Problem with textboxes in Flash CS5

Hi, I am currently a Flash CS4 user and am trying Flash CS5 currently to see if it is worth it to pay for the upgrade. I currently have a problem with the use of textboxes in CS5 comparing with the previous version. When I try to change the texts of a text box using the following command in actionscript:
showlmytext.text = "My string: " +String(somevariable);
I would get weird misaligned text outputted in my textbox, which exact same code did not cause this problem on Flash CS4.
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Thanks

Hi Mario,
I hope you are well. My name is Sandi Langlotz.
At my job at greenidea.com, here in SF; I am having difficulty with using Hebrew in the trial download of CS5 Flash. Russ Mumford my boss has also contacted you regarding our problem.
Flash has a new TLF (Text Layout Format tool). My difficulty has to do with text boxes that are formatted for Right to Left text, with Hebrew selected as the Locale. We are pasting from Microsoft Word.
I hope that you may have a suggestion, a referral or a possible work around for me to try.
I have tried Adobe Customer Service several times to no avail.
Problem 1.
The first sentence below, (in blue) is correct format for Hebrew. Hebrew reads from R to Left.
When I paste the Hebrew text into the Flash animation, one of two things can happen;
the punctuation is cut off of the left side completely; or it is pasted in to the Right side of the Text box, (at the wrong end of the sentence).
I have tried to click the cursor into the left in order to insert the punctuation mark; this works sometimes but often I am unable to click in to manually correct the problem. I don't understand why it is cutting it off, or why I am sometimes unable to click into the left side and insert the punctuation.
Problem 2
In the second paste (the 2nd bold sentence), .CSO on the left side of the sentence is correct, as is the rest of the sentence.
When I paste the text into Flash from Word, Flash puts it in as reversed order. the word CSO. has the punctuation switched to the right (CSO.) Flash reverses the order of the other characters in the sentence also (like in the 2nd black sentence).
שולחן נקי הוא שולחן מאובטח.
שולחן נקי הוא שולחן מאובטח
מבוסס על רעיון ממגזיןCSO .
.CSOןיזגממ ןויער לע ססובמ
Adobe says it supports Right to Left text, but I can find no info on these two buggy problems. Do you have any idea what is wrong?
Thank you ahead of time for any info or referrals you may suggest.
Sandi Langlotz
שולחן נקי הוא שולחן מאובטח.
שולחן נקי הוא שולחן מאובטח
מבוסס על רעיון ממגזיןCSO .
.CSOןיזגממ ןויער לע ססובמ

Flash CS5 unable to play .FLV files on Macbook Pro

I have a colleague who is trying to put together a Flash package for me on her macbook pro. It needs to play an flv file. She is unable to play flv files on her computer either in Flash or using the Adobe Media Player. I have no problem playing the same files on my macbook pro, we're both running the latest OS and have version 1.8 of Adobe Media Player.
She went to the Adobe site to download the latest version of Adobe Media Player, hoping that might include whatever component is missing on her system. Because of Adobe's decision not to distribute AMP that didn't help. She has Flash Professional CS5 11.0.2 on her system. When she imports an flv video into a Flash project and tries to play it she gets an error message saying it can't stream the video. Note that the video is on her hard drive, it is NOT on the internet so no streaming should be required.
The actual error message is: "the video player is in the connection error state. It enters this state when a video stream attempted to load but was unsuccessful. There are two possible reasons for the error: no connection to the server or the stream was not found."
Since it's a file on her hard drive, and she has loaded the file into the Adobe development environment successfully, the one thing we know for certain is that neither of these reasons is correct. Something is obviously missing on her system, what is it and what can we do to fix it?

I'm getting error too (Error #2044: Unhandled NetStatusEvent:. level=error, code=NetStream.Play.StreamNotFound). I'm getting this with CS5. This file was previously made in CS4 and never got this error.
Everything (fla and flv too) is on external hard disk.
As this work requires to be exported to mov, I've found out that everything needs to be on the mac (don't know for pc), like on desktop.
So, let me wrap up disadvantages I got with Flash CS5:
- TextField.embedFont makes the font disappear in CS5, so I can't use it, so I can't "play" with text in a comfortable way (in CS4, with embedFont = true, I was able to rotate and stuff). Now I have to make a bitmap out of it. It means 3 lines of code and a new variable, instead of just an easy one.
- I have to rebuild my entire source path structure for AS classes, as my old one (that took me years of effort to be reasonable and used to work just fine in CS4).
- I have to move stuff from my hard drive to the desktop, to make flv be played and to make a mov out of my animation.
CS5 is making my job harder and making me lose a lot of time to find out errors that have no good reason to exist (it was not error. just "place CS5 doesn't like").

Flash CS5 wont open after working for years? Entry point Not Found

Hi Guys,
I am having a problem opening my Flash CS5 after it working fine since I installed it forever ago. I do not know what could have caused this, and my other cs5 programs are opening fine.
Dreamweaver and Fireworks didnt change all (these 3; along with Flash; are what I use most)
I also open photoshop and aftereffects from my master collection for testing and they opened fine also. I ran a scan using microsoft essentials and found nothing.
I tried run as administrator on flash and it said the same thing.
I am using windows 7 Ultimate N SP1 64 bit
Here is the alert in text.
flash.exe -Entry Point Not Found
The procedure entry point ?ButtonChanged@UI_ClearButtonTextEdit@controls@dvaui@@UAEXP
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Thanks, I really appreciate the help.
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You should be able to cherry pick Flash out to uninstall and reinstall it from the master suite installer if I remember correctly. There's nothing wrong with a fresh reinstall, especially after years. That's a long time to be bulletproof.
Otherwise I can't hand you a commercial DLL but I really don't think your problems will be fixed even if I did. I think it's just hardware doing what it's notorious for, eventually having a fault somewhere. A reinstall of Flash should be fast and will write to new sectors and fix the file.

Flash CS5 crashing when saving

OK! What's the deal?
I have just purchased Adobe Master Collection CS5, all $4400 worth! To give the software it's credit, I formatted my HDD and clean installed Win 7 x64 OS. I then clean installed the entire CS5 suite! As I have to somewhat justify the purchase to my boss (who paid for the software), I have gone to continue doing some work, (not even trying out new features!!), I needed to complete a task, so I got onto it.
I opened up an existing file which was created using CS4, noticed a few bugs that arose when published out using CS5 (mainly around the way that fonts were referred as), fixed those, then all was going well. As we have all done, I got involved with the work, and worked for a long time without saving. I realised this and quickly went to save. The dialog box came up advising that it needed to change versions to CS5 (rather than the original CS4), so I cancelled out and did a file Save As.
I thought I would create a new file so that if anything went wrong, I would have a backup. BLOODY LUCKY I DID, as when I went to save as, Flash crashed, loosing all the work I did. I did manage to get a screenshot of some of my AS which was lucky, but when I looked into the folder where I tried to save, there was a completley useless *.fla of 1kb in size which was completely corrupted and couldn't open up.
Resigned to the fact that I lost all my work (nothing new - as we all know it happens every now and then), I thought I would open up Flash, and the very first task would be to save it as CS5 format. Low and behold, flash crashes again, again leaving a corrupted file in it's place. For $4400, you would think you could at least save the work you have done!!
In other tests, it seems it can save new files, and some simple animations created in CS4, but what the hell do I do with all the existing work that I have spent the last year developing? Can someone please help me, as I really cannot work until this issue is resolved.
HELP!
Duncan Buchanan

I have found the solution to fix my file
In my case, I had to remove from the XML descriptor of a movieclip a reference to an FLVPlayback component! (don't ask me why)
I am pasting the XML node I had to remove on the bottom, first the step by step solution in case others may stumble on this.
It seems that movieclips get corrupt somehow, so, in order to find which ones, we have to proceed this way:
solution
1 - if you save your file as CS5 FLA, then rename the corrupt file from xxx.fla to xxx.zip.
2 - Unzip the file, and you are going to have the same directory structure as if you save in xfl. Now, if you open the xfl file inside the unzipped folder, you get the same error you get opening the fla.
3 - Go into the LIBRARY folder. This is a hyerarchical representation of your library.
4 - If like I do, your library is well organized in folders and subfolders, this step will not be too annoying. If you have all library items free in the library, then it could be boring. Anyway... The thing here is to find which library items are causing the problem, so you have to remove them one by one, or in groups, and try to launch the xfl each time. When the xfl gets opened, you have removed the right library item.
In my case, even for very large projects, I have only 4 folders in library's root. So what I did, I tried removing one of them, till I found the rightt one. Then I went deeper and deeper, and eventually found the **** movieclip causing the crash.
If its not an important item, you can just happily continue to work and do it again. In my case, it was a vital component, so I went inside the xml definition, and tried to remove nodes untill it finally opened.
TAHDAH
The file got opened again, just with a missing reference inside that movieclip.
I have read that often an empty frame may cause the problem, so you should look for <element/> tag.
In my case, was a FLVPlayback component.
Find below the node I had to remove (someone from Adobe may give a look)
It is advised untill Flash CS5 doesn't get stabilized on file save (yeah, I know, a detail!) to store your projects as xfl and not as FLA files. (I don't really know why, since a fla file is just a zipped xfl folder renamed as .fla)
Exhausted but happy.
Filippo
                <DOMCompiledClipInstance libraryItemName="FLVPlayback" name="_video" selected="true" uniqueID="8">
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                    <Matrix a="2.45603942871094" d="2.04177856445313"/>
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                  <transformationPoint>
                    <Point x="160" y="119.95"/>
                  </transformationPoint>
                  <dataBindingXML><![CDATA[<component metaDataFetched='true' schemaUrl='' schemaOperation='' sceneRootLabel='HighlightItem' oldCopiedComponentPath=''>
</component>
]]></dataBindingXML>
                  <parametersAsXML><![CDATA[   <property id="align">
      <Inspectable name="align" variable="align" category="" verbose="0" defaultValue="center" enumeration="center,top,left,bottom,right,topLeft,topRight,bottomLeft,bottomRight" type="List"/>
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      <Inspectable name="autoPlay" variable="autoPlay" category="" verbose="0" defaultValue="false" type="Boolean"/>
   </property>
   <property id="cuePoints">
      <Inspectable name="cuePoints" variable="cuePoints" category="" verbose="0" defaultValue="" type="Video Cue Points"/>
   </property>
   <property id="isLive">
      <Inspectable name="isLive" variable="isLive" category="" verbose="0" defaultValue="false" type="Boolean"/>
   </property>
   <property id="preview">
      <Inspectable name="preview" variable="preview" category="" verbose="0" defaultValue="None" type="Video Preview"/>
   </property>
   <property id="scaleMode">
      <Inspectable name="scaleMode" variable="scaleMode" category="" verbose="0" defaultValue="exactFit" enumeration="maintainAspectRatio,noScale,exactFit" type="List"/>
   </property>
   <property id="skin">
      <Inspectable name="skin" variable="skin" category="" verbose="0" defaultValue="" type="Video Skin"/>
   </property>
   <property id="skinAutoHide">
      <Inspectable name="skinAutoHide" variable="skinAutoHide" category="" verbose="0" defaultValue="false" type="Boolean"/>
   </property>
   <property id="skinBackgroundAlpha">
      <Inspectable name="skinBackgroundAlpha" variable="skinBackgroundAlpha" category="" verbose="0" defaultValue="0.85" type="Number"/>
   </property>
   <property id="skinBackgroundColor">
      <Inspectable name="skinBackgroundColor" variable="skinBackgroundColor" category="" verbose="0" defaultValue="#666666" type="Color"/>
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   <property id="source">
      <Inspectable name="source" variable="source" category="" verbose="0" defaultValue="" type="Video Content Path"/>
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   <property id="volume">
      <Inspectable name="volume" variable="volume" category="" verbose="0" defaultValue="1.00" type="Number"/>
   </property>
]]></parametersAsXML>
                </DOMCompiledClipInstance>

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