Front Stage Annoyances

I have an iMac, and I really like to use Fronstage for listening to music and watching videos. But, a few things really irritate me about it:
-- I have my computer scheduled to power down at midnight. But if I'm in FrontStage, it won't shut down. Is there a way to change this?
-- Also, whenever I play anything in FrontStage, it creates a new Playlist in my iTunes called "FrontStage Playlist" of whatever I played that day. Is there a way to make it stop doing that? And is there a way to make it stop making a "Purchased" Playlist too? I'm just dandy with the playlists I have, and iTunes always annoys me when it decides to make new ones.

That frame isn't very helpful when they all look exactly alike (the green movie trailer screen, for example).
It's up to the creator of the video file to mark the frame to be used as the preview/key frame. Of course, if the video came from Apple it should be marked correctly. If you have QuickTime Pro, you can set your own "poster frame". Open the movie in the QuickTime Player, move the playhead to the frame you want and choose "Set Poster Frame" from the View menu.
EDIT: Oops! I should have kept reading. I now see cmendill has posted the same suggestion.
-Doug

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Front row annoyance

Hey, I have a 2.0GHz White MacBook, with 1GB of RAM (not sure what difference that makes, but I might as well say it). Front Row has been pretty cool, works flawlessly and looks really nice. However, when viewing a movie, and JUST THAT, after I'm done viewing it, and exit out of Front Row, I see iTunes has launched in my dock. I never even went to the iTunes icon in Front Row, just the Movies, watched a movie, and left. Yet iTunes launched for some strange reason. I have duplicated this dozens of times, so I know it's not just some one time thing.
Any suggestions/ideas? I'd appreciate it, thanks.

You've got it in one. If you look at your pictures in
Front Row, you'll see that iPhoto has opened. Front
Row is just a frontend for various apps.
You need to upgrade to Quicktime Pro in order to play
fullscreen video using Quicktime, so Front row uses
iTunes to play video.
Don't ask me why Apple's video app doesn't play
fullscreen video, but their music app does!
Yeah, I knew that Front Row had to open certain apps to do things, but I didn't realize it was the irritating limitations set on Quicktime. That explains it then, thanks a bunch.

T4xx/T5xx/X2xx CPU whining problem survey *DRAFT*

Hey guys,
First of all, I'm not affiliated with Lenovo. Then, ff you don't know the 'whining problem', please read this thread and the links in the posts:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/T510-i5-540M-terrible-whine-noise/td-p/2198...
I'm using X201 i5-560M CPU and is also suffering the whining problem. Personally I'm specially sensitive to the high frequency noise and the whining makes me mad.
There has been a lot of discussion online (again, links in the thread above), yet it seems that Lenovo is not willing to acknowledge this issue as a "problem". At this point, I'm desperate about the willingness of Lenovo or Intel to provide a hardware solution. And yes I'm a Chinese but I feel shame on Lenovo.
What I'm thinking is to conduct a massive, scientific (hopefully) survey about this problem. I'm hoping that by analyzing the data, we can get an clearer idea that under what circumstances the whining will occur and how to minimize/eliminate it in balance with the battery life.
According to my understanding and some searching, despite the fact that it's the hardware that creating the noise, surprisingly this problem is partially related with Adobe Flash and the way how our browsers run them. The survey below is designed to confirm (or falsify...) this proposal.
**Please note** that this is just a DRAFT of the survey and what I'm expecting is your input on HOW TO IMPROVE THIS SURVEY other than giving me your answers. The formal survey will be posted on this forum later this month if I get positive response from you.
Thank you!
Tentative survey
*I made some changes during editing this post, so please ignore the numbering of the question
1. Personal information
1.1 Your Age
2. The computer itself
2.1 The model you are using (eg. T410s)
2.2 CPU model (eg. i5-560M)
2.3 Are you using a SSD hard drive
2.4 Do you currently have any USB device plugged in
2.4 Where did you purchase this computer (country)
2.5 When did you purchase this computer (month/year)
2.6 Have you customized the computer when purchasing (if your type number on the back of the machine ends with 'CTO')
3. Whining
3.1 Are you experienced the whining at this moment? If yes, is it continuous or intermittent. Is it still whining when there is no hard drive activity (Hard drive light blinking for HD busy).
3.2 You wireless network status (ON/OFF status of Wireless LAN, bluetooth, WiMAX(?), etc.)
3.3 Are you running on battery or AC adapter
3.3 Software status, please provide the answers as specific as possible, especially pleases indicate whether it's a 32bit or a 64bit
3.3.1 What is the operating system you are using
3.3.2 What programs are you running in the front stage (please also include programs like your antivirus software, which is running, but only has an icon displaying at the bottom right region of the screen)
3.3.3 Does any of your running application contain animation on its user interface
3.3.4 What is the Power Plan are you using， this can be told by pressing Fn+F3
3.3.5 Have you changed any detailed settings in your current power plan, if yes, which
3.4 Browser
3.4.1 What browser are you using? Is it 32bit/64bit?
3.4.2 Do you have Flash plugin installed
3.4.3 Do you have Flash blocked. If so, if you enable the flash animation, does it make difference in the whining
3.4.4 Are you using official Adobe Flash release or 3rd party Flash plugin
3.4.5 Is your flash plugin 32bit/64bit
3.5 BIOS settings
Please note: Answering these questions requires restarting, Please understand that answers to this section are very important, but feel free to ignore this part if anything prevents you from restarting your computer. To enter the BIOS setting interface, please restart your computer and press F1 when you see the thinkpad logo. Please read these questions and memorize them before restarting. In the BIOS setting interface, *DON'T* change any setting if you don't know what are you doing. THANK YOU.
3.5.1 What BIOS firmware version are you using
3.5.1 Under Config, CPU, do you have dual core enabled
3.5.2 Under Config, CPU, do you have hyper-threading enabled
3.5.3 Under Config, Power, do you have SpeedStep enabled, if so, what are the two following settings for on battery and on adapter
3.5.4 Under Config, Power, do you have CPU power management enabled
3.5.5 Under Config, Power, do you have PCI bus power management enabled
3.5.6 Under Config, Power, do you have PCI-E bus power management enabled

hougj, welcome to the forum,
please allow me to ask the question about your motives for this survey. What are your motives?
CPU whine is not necessarily a specific Lenovo "problem", as you seem to state in your post. It is also something experienced with other manufacturers' sysems. The discussion about CPU whine started, I believe and stand to be corrected, in 2007 when C2D CPUs first came onto the market. Googling CPU whine will bring a plethora of results on this.
I also have absolutely no affiliation to Lenovo, just here to help where I can.
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Stage.nativeWindow.alwaysInFront how to keep the window always in front

Hi, I've just written and application that needs to always be in front of the other applications. I have set the application's nativeWindow.alwaysInFront property to true, but, after a few other air applications open the application will get pushed behind. It seems to work when the first application opens up, but after opening a second time it will no longer be on top. Any suggestions? Thanks.

One way is to browse your iTunes Music Library in the Finder and open the video file with QuickTime instead of playing it in iTunes. Then you have always-on-top and also fixes the "full screen on 2nd monitor" problem. Maybe not ideal, but a workaround.

Video comes in front on stage automatically after android app activate/deactivate

Hi,
I overlayyed TextField over video on stage.
video and textfield is added on stage like
stage.addChildAt(video,0);
stage.addChildAt(textfield,1);
video.attachNetStream(netstream);
the above source code works perfect for android air app If I don't activate/deactivate the app.
But If I deactivate the app by tapping home and then activate the app (by tapping the app icon), video becomes on top of textfield.
How can I push the video below the textfield?
I have checked the video index its 0 and I have also tried to remove the video and add it back on stage at index 0 but that also does change anything.
Thanks for your help!

I've written several apps that use video and there are definitely some known ordering issues.
I believe that it has to do with the fact that the Video object is able to use GPU rendering (which is basically handled outside of the display list). As you've described, the ordering issue doesn't seem to appear until you deactivate/reactivate the application.
You might want to look at this message from December 11th 2012: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4914005
There's some additional information in the bugbase - here : https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3354849
As described, there is a poorly documented application.xml element, <containsVideo>true</containsVideo> that can be manually added to the application.xml file (with a text editor/notepad) - it belongs inside the <android></android> element.
This may or may not resolve your issue. However in my case (very similar to your description), adding this element to the application.xml did cause the application to respect the intended order when deactivated and then reactivated.
Hope this is useful information for you.

How can I use my Html/CSS Navigation bar to control an Edge Stage?

I have an HTML/CSS navigation bar set up in my EDGE created page. The Navbar is not created in edge. I would like to use these buttons to control the stage.
Inside the stage the main timeline has labels and stop actions every 1.5 secs to create a horizontally sliding site.
The labels are as follows: home, work, blog, profile, and contact. I can easily use a symbol created inside edge for example:
sym.play("home");
and animate a 6000px width symbol across my 1000px stage in 1000px increments.
I do not want to use a symbol inside of edge to do this because I cannot create the effect that the html/css navbar has on mouseover inside of edge.
So I am interested in knowing if I can use this bar to control my main timeline so I don't have to sacrifice design for functionality.
currently the link list is setup with the standard hyperlink. What code would I use to play the stage on click of the html navbar?
Many thanks to anyone who can help with this!
Here is the code for the navbar:
<div id="menu"><ul class="block-menu">
 <li><a href="/home" class="three-d">
 Dynamic
 DynamicArtisans
 </a></li>
 <li><a href="/demos" class="three-d">
 Work
 WorkWork
 </a></li>
 <li><a href="/deals" class="three-d">
 Blog
 BlogBlog
 </a></li>
 <li><a href="/about" class="three-d">
 Profile
 ProfileProfile
 </a></li>
 <li><a href="/about" class="three-d">
 Contact
 ContactContact
 </a></li>
 </ul>
</div>
Full HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
 <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge"/>
 <title>Untitled</title>

 <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="workapp_edgePreload.js"></script>
 <style>
 .edgeLoad-EDGE-57204389 { visibility:hidden; }
 .block-menu {
 display: block;
 background: #000;
 .block-menu li {
 display: inline-block;
 .block-menu li a {
 color: #fff;
 display: block;
 text-decoration: none;
 font-family: 'Passion One',Arial,sans-serif;
 -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
 -moz-font-smoothing: antialiased;
 font-smoothing: antialiased;
 text-transform: uppercase;
 overflow: visible;
 line-height: 20px;
 font-size: 24px;
 padding: 15px 10px;
 /* animation domination */
 .three-d {
 -webkit-perspective: 200px;
 -moz-perspective: 200px;
 perspective: 200px;
 -webkit-transition: all .07s linear;
 -moz-transition: all .07s linear;
 transition: all .07s linear;
 position: relative;
 .three-d:not(.active):hover {
 cursor: pointer;
 .three-d:not(.active):hover .three-d-box,
 .three-d:not(.active):focus .three-d-box {
 -moz-transform: translateZ(-25px) rotateX(90deg);
 -webkit-transform: translateZ(-25px) rotateX(90deg);
 -o-transform: translateZ(-25px) rotateX(90deg);
 transform: translateZ(-25px) rotateX(90deg);
 .three-d-box {
 -webkit-transition: all .3s ease-out;
 -moz-transition: all .3s ease-out;
 -ms-transition: all .3s ease-out;
 -o-transition: all .3s ease-out;
 transition: all .3s ease-out;
 -webkit-transform: translatez(-25px);
 -moz-transform: translatez(-25px);
 -o-transform: translatez(-25px);
 transform: translatez(-25px);
 -webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d;
 -moz-transform-style: preserve-3d;
 -ms-transform-style: preserve-3d;
 -o-transform-style: preserve-3d;
 transform-style: preserve-3d;
 pointer-events: none;
 position: absolute;
 top: 0;
 left: 0;
 display: block;
 width: 100%;
 height: 100%;
 .front {
 -webkit-transform: rotatex(0deg) translatez(25px);
 -moz-transform: rotatex(0deg) translatez(25px);
 -o-transform: rotatex(0deg) translatez(25px);
 transform: rotatex(0deg) translatez(25px);
 .back {
 -webkit-transform: rotatex(-90deg) translatez(25px);
 -moz-transform: rotatex(-90deg) translatez(25px);
 -o-transform: rotatex(-90deg) translatez(25px);
 transform: rotatex(-90deg) translatez(25px);
 color: #FFE7C4;
 .front, .back {
 display: block;
 width: 100%;
 height: 100%;
 position: absolute;
 top: 0;
 left: 0;
 background: black;
 padding: 15px 10px;
 color: white;
 pointer-events: none;
 -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
 box-sizing: border-box;
 </style>

</head>
<body>
<div id="menu"><ul class="block-menu">
 <li><a href="/home" class="three-d">
 Dynamic
 DynamicArtisans
 </a></li>
 <li><a href="/demos" class="three-d">
 Work
 WorkWork
 </a></li>
 <li><a href="/deals" class="three-d">
 Blog
 BlogBlog
 </a></li>
 <li><a href="/about" class="three-d">
 Profile
 ProfileProfile
 </a></li>
 <li><a href="/about" class="three-d">
 Contact
 ContactContact
 </a></li>
 </ul>
</div>
<div id="Stage" class="EDGE-57204389">
</div>
</body>
</html>

I've come across this from the Edge API:
Edge.getComposition(compId)
Anyone having trouble with this same issue should try this:
var targetComp = AdobeEdge.getComposition('TARGETCOMPID');
 targetComp.getStage().play();
in their trigger or event handler.
How I got it to work:
<li><a href="javascript:var targetComp = AdobeEdge.getComposition('EDGE-57204389');
 targetComp.getStage().play();" class="three-d">
 Dynamic
 DynamicArtisans
 </a></li>

Load error code 3 unable to load front panel

Hi all,
Wrote a vi in 8.6 and saved it for 8.5 for collaborators. When they run it up pops the error code 3 unable to load front panel. Memory full. see attached picture.
Has anyone any suggestions as to how to fix this?
Regards,
leeser
Attachments:
labview error code 3.png ‏51 KB

Hi guys,
Thanks for the comments,
Attached is the code (zipped). Excuse the bulkiness of the block diagrams. It basically controls a rotation stage and makes an avi at specific times/angles. The motor stage is ActiveX controlled.
As I don't have access to the hardware I am writing semi-blind. However, when I did visit them and had a quick look at the code I could get it to work by quickly including the subvis into a new main vi and obviously compiling it in 8.5. (may be onto something here!)
Different versions of the labVIEW -> doing a group a favour; I have v8.6 they have v8.5, wrote it in v8.6 saved it for v8.5. I don't have v 8.5. I also have v 8.2.1 on a different machine. Saved it for v8.2.1 and it opened no problem in 8.2.1. Will send this version on and see how they get on. More likely to be forward compatible???
I agree that the optimal situation is 1) use the same version of labview and/or
2) they get someone to do their coding on-site!!!!
I think the corrupt front panel object could be true given that I could get it to work when the subvis were included in a new main vi on-site.
so versions 8.6, 8.5 and 8.2 attached.....
regards,
Leeser
Attachments:
rotation_control.zip ‏178 KB
rotation_control_v8.6.zip ‏60 KB
NCLA_rot_usb_v8.5 Folder.zip ‏141 KB

Can No Longer Drag JPG files From Finder Directly Into .fla Stage?

For the past six months I have been following a manual process to convert JPG files (exported from InDesign) into SWF files for display advertising assets.
Using pre-built FLA files as templates (configured with clicktags):
Open FLA templates (3 separate files for 3 IAB ad sizes)
Drag JPG from Finder directly into stage of FLA file, aligned to
Publish to output folder for renaming
Today, for no apparent reason, I can no longer drag anything into the stage of any FLA file. Not just the pre-built templates. Nothing will drag & drop into an FLA stage.
What I have tried:
Restarted Mac
Reset Flash preferences
What I know I can still do:
Drag files from Finder into the Library, and drag into FLA stage from there
"File > Import to Stage..."
This works but because of my naming convention it prompts to import them all each time because Flash sees the sequence
This is not another step I am willing to contend with for my manual workflow
Me and my creative team need to process hundreds of assets like this each week, so I'm very anxious to discover why functionality that was working, suddenly stopped.
Running:
MacBookPro Retina OS X 10.8.5
Flash CS6 v. 12.0.2.529

just want to add my annoyance to the pile here. I can't see any logic behind removing the drag and drop function, especially when adding a new folder is now a multi-step process that is far from obvious. to start a new playlist with local folder content you now need to:enter settingsclick into advanced settings (basically all settings now seem to be "advanced"?)manually find and add the foldergo through the adventure of finding the files in your library.
-- because they may or may not be listed under "local files" - you won't know because Ctrl+F is also removed. so you have to remember/know what the album you added is called and search for that. if you have a mixed bag of file names from various albums, you're basically shafted; there's no way to find them all with a single search.then you can add them to playlisteta: but wait! there's more! if you have more than 15 files? you're **bleep** out of luck, because the search will only display the first 15 hits among your local files, and then show you spotify library tracks.I can't help but feel as though spotify is doing everything they can to stop us using spotify to listen to local files, as bugs that make it more or less impossible persist through multiple versions - and now features that seem to me to be basic functionality are being removed?mega minus points from someone who's been using spotify since 2008.

Front End Server Certificate Renewal

I would like to see if someone could offer simple clarification to a hopefully simple question. My OAuth and Default Certificates are expiring soon.
Can I request a certificate, using the wizard (which has worked before so no issues there) and effectively "stage" it to later assign during my scheduled maintenance window so I can simply assign and reboot?
It isn't exactly imperative that this works in exactly this way, it would just be nice to request the certificate and ease my workload later, sort of like staging system patches but with certs, ha ha.
Thanks.

That's exactly how you'd do it. Request it and stage it, confirm that you can assign it but don't. Then, during your maintenance window you'd assign it and restart.
oAuth you'd only assign once to a primary Front End, that should replicate out on it's own. The other certs you'd need to assign individually to each front end, reverse proxy, etc.
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How to determine the page count of the front document (pdf-Preview) with applescript?

Hello, I'm a beinnger apple scripter, and I have 2 questions. First, im trying to find the code to generate a page count for the front document of preview. I tried something like this:
choose file with prompt "Count the number of pages in this PDF file:" without invisibles
do shell script "/usr/bin/mdls -name kMDItemNumberOfPages " & quoted form of POSIX path of result & " | /usr/bin/grep -o '[0-9]\\+$'"
But I dont want to have to choose a file with the prompt, and Im not sure how to get the path or POSIX path of an open pdf that is the front document in prievew to then use that directory to select the file to run the shell script on. This is one step in a much larger sequence of automator/apple script commands for large print jobs.
The large scale view is:
1. seleting a group .musx Finale 2014 files and creating pdfs of all the documents
 -Achieved with Automator stuff: [Get selected finder items] [open finder items with Finale 2014] [run applescript to convert to pdf all the open files] (which I have working but without a proper repeat condition)
2. sorting those those exports into even/odd groups
3. making the even pages 2 up with a create booklet plugin
3. combinging even/odd group pdfs in their respective folders
4. sending the 2 up evens to 1 printer, and the singes to another printer.
but at this stage in the code/automator this is what i'll need to be doing:
1. Several pdf documents will be open and I need to determine the page count of the front document.
2. With that result I need to determine if the pagecount is even or odd.
3. If its even, I need to save as pdf in a file folder /desktop/PDF Export/Doubles
 - if its odd, I need to save as pdf pages from 1 to (pageCount -1) to /desktop/PDF Export/Doubles, and pages (pageCount) to (pageCount) to desktop/PDF Export/Singles. (example: A 5 page pdf will send pages 1-4 to folder "Doubles", and pages from 5 to 5 to Singles, A 1 page pdf will only send a copy to the folder "Singles." A 2 page pdf will send both pages to "doubles"
4. once the even/odd pages have had pdfs made in the either or both of the folders, Im going to close the document and repeat for all other open pdfs.
Which also brings me to my 2nd repeat condition question: how can I repeat (print, save as pdf, close) commands for open files and end the script once all files are closed? This can help me both at this stage, as well the coding stage before in creating the pdfs from open Finale/sibelius .sib/.musx files
would it be something like this?:
If front document exists
try
tell application "preview"
<bla bla>
end try
end tell
At stage 1 of the large scale i've gotten the files to export pdfs and close multiple files, but if i say "repeat 4 times" and i have 3 files it can do those commands but it gets stuck trying to repeat the code one more time. I need the repeat amount x to be the # of items in selection from the the original finder window.
Thanks for the help!

The following AppleScript will get the POSIX path and filename of the current PDF file. It will just return the integer value for page count. Note: The path retrieved is the actual path to the PDF file, unless it is on the Desktop. In the latter case, the path will be ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Desktop/filename.pdf.
The script assumes that the following folders exist, otherwise you will need a try block to test for their presence.
The AppleScript dictionary for Preview does not provide a page dictionary entry, that would make a repeat loop and page range possible for saving individual page ranges.
set pdfDoubles to POSIX path of ((path to desktop) & "PDF Export" & Doubles)
set pdfSingles to POSIX path of ((path to desktop) & "PDF Export" & Singles)
tell application "Preview"
-- gets quoted POSIX path and filename
 set pdfFile to (get path of front document)
 set pdfName to (get name of front document)
log pdfName
 set cmdArg to "/usr/bin/mdls -name kMDItemNumberOfPages " & pdfFile ¬
 & " | egrep -o \"(\\d+)\""
 set pageCnt to do shell script cmdArg
display dialog pageCnt
 if pageCnt mod 2 is 0 then
-- even
-- save pdfName in pdfDoubles
 else
-- save pdfName in pdfDoubles
-- save individual pages in pdfSingles
 end if
end tell

Multiple stages on multiple screens of different size

I'm working on a project that requires me to have two stages on two screens of different size. How do I do this in Flex, or is it even possible?
More specifically, I am building a kiosk appliction, that will have the menu on a small touch-screen that sits in front of a larger, wall-mounted screen. When the user selects content to be played (videos, web sites, whatever) from the touch-screen, then the effect of that selection needs to be sent to the other stage. I need to be able to run a screen-saver on the main screen, also. Basically, the controls are the main application, and the other screen is simply a container for viewing things.
I am currently packaging my Flex project in AIR, not through the web, so I actually have a windowed application. Basically, I just need to create a new window with a custom chrome that simply holds a movie.
Is such a thing possible in Flex? I couldn't figure out how to spawn another stage, much less one that was referencable from the first stage.

Hey all. I have reached the answer. I left everything up that I posted before, in case anybody is having similar issues. To create the custom component, click your project, create a package, and then right-click that package and create a new MXML component. Then, create the MXML just like you would before. Your root tag will be whatever you are working to modify (so, s:Window for my case, but you can do an s:Label or whatever you want). So, first, I'll give you the code for my simple Window component:
[CODE]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<s:Window xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
 xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
 xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
 systemChrome="none" visible="true" transparent="true" showStatusBar="false" width="400" height="300"
 <s:layout>
 <s:BasicLayout />
 </s:layout>
 <s:Label id="controlScreenTitle" text="new Window from VideoScreen component" fontSize="72" fontWeight="normal" color="#222222">
 <s:filters>
 <s:DropShadowFilter color="#CCCCCC" />
 </s:filters>
 </s:Label>
</s:Window>
[/CODE]
All I did was a very simple white box there. You can disable the system chrome and such from the main Window tag, as I have shown. The window this creates has no [ _ ] [ [] ] [ x ] buttons, bar along the bottom, or any background. In my actual project, this component will hold a container to play my video objects.
Then, I create my main document:
[CODE]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<s:WindowedApplication xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
 xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
 xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"
 showStatusBar="false" alwaysInFront="false"
 creationComplete="init()">
 
 <fx:Style source="KioskScreensStyles.css" />
 <fx:Script source="controlScreenMain.as" />
 <fx:Script>
 <![CDATA[
 /* Insert other ActionScript stuff here. Try to put as much of it as you can in the .AS file, though */
 ]]>
 </fx:Script>
 <fx:Declarations>
 
 
 
 </fx:Declarations>
 <s:BorderContainer id="controlInterface" right="0" left="0" top="0" bottom="0" borderStyle="inset" borderColor="#CCCCCC">
 <s:layout>
 
 <s:BasicLayout />
 
 
 </s:layout>
 
 <s:Label id="controlScreenTitle" text="Error loading program..." fontSize="48" fontWeight="normal" color="#222222">
 <s:filters>
 <s:DropShadowFilter color="#CCCCCC" />
 </s:filters>
 </s:Label>
 
 <s:ToggleButton id="btn1" label="Play video 1" click="btn1_clickHandler(event)" />
 <s:ToggleButton id="btn2" label="Play video 2" click="btn2_clickHandler(event)" />
 <s:ToggleButton id="btn3" label="Play video 3" click="btn3_clickHandler(event)" />
 <s:ToggleButton id="btn4" label="Play video 4" click="btn4_clickHandler(event)" />
 <s:ToggleButton id="btn5" label="Play video 5" click="btn5_clickHandler(event)" />
 <s:ToggleButton id="btn6" label="Play video 6" click="btn6_clickHandler(event)" />
 </s:BorderContainer>
</s:WindowedApplication>
[/CODE]
Now, the important part will be the .as file. Here's parts of that:
[CODE]
/* Imports */
/* import custom components. This is what allows us to open a new window in AIR. NOTE: THIS IS HOW YOU GET THAT CUSTOM MXML FILE IN HERE TO USE */
import customComponents.VideoScreen;
// import older mx stuff only when needed. Try to avoid using these.
import mx.controls.Image;
// import the newer Spark components. Use these for everything possible.
import spark.components.VideoDisplay;
import spark.components.Window;
import spark.primitives.Rect;
// Global variable declairation
protected var screens:Array = Screen.screens;
protected var controlScreenSizes:Rectangle = screens[0].bounds;
protected var videoScreenSizes:Rectangle = screens[1].bounds;
// All variables below Defined in init(), to be sure that they have been fully loaded
// While the :Window declairation technically works for the controlScreen, Flash views this as an error, and will not process everything properly if I type it like that.
//protected var controlScreen:Window = this.Window;
protected var controlScreen;// = this;
/* NOTE: THIS IS THE USE OF MY NEW, IMPORTED CUSTOM WINDOW. This is all you need to do to make it. */
protected var videoScreen:VideoScreen = new VideoScreen();
protected var btns:Array;
/* Initialize all my variables, and call the needed functions to set everything up */
protected function init():void
 controlScreen = this;
 // This is a Window method that opens the Window. I did not have to code this.
 videoScreen.open(false);
 btns = [btn1, btn2, btn3, btn4, btn5, btn6];
 placeScreens();
 createControlScreen();
 loadScreenSaver();
/* Moves all my screens so that they sit in the top-left of each of the two screens, and then expands to be full screen on those two screens, whatever size that may be. */
private function placeScreens():void
 // We move it to -1,-1 because there is 1 px padding and dead white space that I can't figure out how to remove.
 controlScreen.move(-1,-1);
 controlScreen.width = (controlScreenSizes.width+1);
 controlScreen.height = (controlScreenSizes.height+1);
 controlInterface.width = (controlScreenSizes.width+1);
 controlInterface.height = (controlScreenSizes.height+1);
 videoScreen.systemChrome = "Standard";
 videoScreen.move(controlScreenSizes.width,0);
 videoScreen.width = (videoScreenSizes.width);
 videoScreen.height = (videoScreenSizes.height);
/* Puts all the buttons where they belong, and attached the background image that we need and so forth */
private function createControlScreen():void
 /* Most of this code is not needed for the demonstration, so I only include what I feel would be helpful, with psudocode for the rest */
 var backgroundImg:Image = new Image();
 backgroundImg.source = "assets/backgroundImg.jpg";
 var backgroundVid:VideoDisplay = new VideoDisplay();
 backgroundVid.source = "assets/backgroundVid.mp4";
 backgroundVid.width = (controlScreenSizes.width+1);
 backgroundVid.height = (controlScreenSizes.height+1);
 backgroundVid.autoPlay = true;
 backgroundVid.muted = true;
 backgroundVid.loop = true;
 /* Format the buttons. You can change height, width, x and y position on the form, label (the text on it), and some other things (including the ability to spawn video or picture or sound when clicked and such for animations. */
 /* buncha code that moved the buttons around and made them all fit in the screen dynamically based on the screen size. */
 /* Finally, play with controlScreenTitle, which is a label control that you can styple and use for text on the screen in addition to the buttons. In here is just a bunch of code to do that*/
 /* Attach the elements to the controlInterface. The first put on has the lowest z, therefore is under the rest. Stack them in the order you want then displayed. The first one should be either backgroundImg (image), or backgroundVid (video), depending on what you provided and want. Note that the video causes the buttons to lag a lot */
 controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(backgroundImg);
 //controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(backgroundVid);
 controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(controlScreenTitle);
 controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(btn1);
 controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(btn2);
 controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(btn3);
 controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(btn4);
 controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(btn5);
 controlInterface.contentGroup.addElement(btn6);
 /* Buncha code for the functionality */
} // End function createControlScreen()
/* Puts the screensaver up on the video display so that we don't burn out the display */
private function loadScreenSaver():void
 //pull in screensave into that window
/* Makes sure that the user doesn't see two buttons active at the same time--that would look like two movies were playing at the same time. */
private function deselectOtherButtons(clicked:int):void
 for(var i:int=0; i<6; i++)
 if(i != (clicked-1))
 btns[i].selected = false;
/* All of the below do the same thing: unselect all the other buttons when one of the buttons is clicked. I could just create one click event handler, but I wanted to leave the possiblity of customizing the result of each button's click, so I left it this way. */
protected function btn1_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
 deselectOtherButtons(1);
protected function btn2_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
 deselectOtherButtons(2);
protected function btn3_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
 deselectOtherButtons(3);
 deselectOtherButtons(4);
protected function btn5_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
 deselectOtherButtons(5);
protected function btn6_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
 deselectOtherButtons(6);
[/CODE]
If anybody looking at this has any questions about it, feel free to ask me. I am not usually able to comb the forums, so you'll have to PM me or something. I actually put this up right after I found my solution, so there is work still to be done on it (obviously). But if you ever need to do anything like this, here's some code for you.

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I've googled this to no avail, I've only found how to manipulate the stage itself and not a display object on it, and I'm noob enough to not be able to figure it out from there. :/
I have a movie clip on the main timeline with instance name displayName. I created a button that should change what frame displayName goes to (in order to...did you guess it?! diplay the Name of the button. Awesome. )
So I am trying to write the code in a reusable fashion and have the buttons all linked to a class called GeoPuzzle. Inside GeoPuzzle I instantiate a touch event and run the code. However, the function has to be able to change displayName in the main part of the timeline and, of course, the compiler says displayName doesn't exist because I'm in a class and I'm talking about the stage.
Here is the simplified code in the class:
package com.freerangeeggheads.puzzleography {
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.events.TouchEvent;
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        //declare variables
        public function setInitial (abbrev:String, fullName:String, isLocked:Boolean):void {
            //set parameters
            this.addEventListener(TouchEvent.TOUCH_BEGIN, geoTouchBeginHandler);
        public function GeoPuzzle (): void {
        public function geoTouchBeginHandler (e:TouchEvent): void {
               e.target.addEventListener(TouchEvent.TOUCH_END, geoTouchEndHandler);
               //some other methods
               nameDisplay.gotoAndStop(e.target.abbrev);
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            //some other methods
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The lines in bold are my problem. Now this code doesn't actually execute as is so if you see an error in it, yeah, I have no idea what the problem is, but it DID execute before and these lines still gave me trouble so I'm trying to troubleshoot on multiple fronts.
How can I tell displayName to change it's current frame from within display object class?
Thanks!

if displayName is a GeoPuzzle instance, use:
package com.freerangeeggheads.puzzleography {
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.events.TouchEvent;
    public class GeoPuzzle extends MovieClip {
        //declare variables
        public function setInitial (abbrev:String, fullName:String, isLocked:Boolean):void {
            //set parameters
            this.addEventListener(TouchEvent.TOUCH_BEGIN, geoTouchBeginHandler);
        public function GeoPuzzle (): void {
        public function geoTouchBeginHandler (e:TouchEvent): void {
               e.target.addEventListener(TouchEvent.TOUCH_END, geoTouchEndHandler);
               //some other methods
               this.gotoAndStop(this.abbrev);
        public function geoTouchEndHandler (e:TouchEvent): void {
            //some other methods
           this.gotoAndStop("USA");

Access a nested symbol timeline from the main stage

Hi all,
Would love some help on accessing a nested symbol from the main stage please.
To set the scene.....
"Its an autumn day..
no sorry...just joking...
So i have a symbol called "NormalAnatomy" - its not on the main stage, but when a button is clicked it appears in the 'content' box which is just a rectangle on the main stage.
Inside "NormalAnatomy" symbol is another symbol called "Scrub_all" which is an animation
For users to view the animation they use a scrub bar like this lovely lady has invented:
Create Click and Touch Draggable Scrubbers with Edge Animate CC | sarahjustine.com
So for Sarah Justines scrubber to work - the main stage has a lot of actions added to it. Also the "timelinePlay" symbol is on the main stage
Its starts:
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var bar = sym.$("bar");
sym.$("mobileHit").hide();
var dragme = false;
So I put my "NormalAnatomy" symbol on my main stage to see if the code would work and changed all the relevant details.. and indeed it worked!
var symDur = sym.getSymbol("NormalAnatomy").getSymbol("Scrub_all").getDuration();
var mySymbol = sym.getSymbol("NormalAnatomy").getSymbol("Scrub_all");
var scrubber = sym.getSymbol("NormalAnatomy").$("scrubber");
var bar = sym.getSymbol("NormalAnatomy").$("bar");
sym.getSymbol("NormalAnatomy").$("mobileHit").hide();
var dragme = false;
But i don't want the "NormalAnatomy" symbol to be on the main stage as I want it to appear in the 'content' box only when i hit a btn
So as soon as I took this symbol off the main stage, the scrubber doesn't work. So I click a btn, and the symbol appears in the content box but the scrubber doesn't work.
so I tried in front of the "NormalAnatomy"
getStage().
getStage("content").
getComposition().getStage().
getSymbol("content").
but nothing works
The main problem must be the fact that the NormalAnatomy symbol appears inside a content box so the MainStage actions doesn't know how to find it??
So my question is... what should I put in the main stage actions to make it access the "NormalAnatomy" symbol?
Thanks for your help in advance!

On click handler for the symbol use
sym.getComposition().getStage().getSymbol("nameofsymbol").play();
or
sym.getSymbol("nameofsymbol").play();
replace the italics with the literal name of the symbol as it appears in the Elements panel.
Some API details found here (http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/edgeanimate/api/current/index.html) in the Work With Symbols section.
Darrell

Adding objects to the stage & acceessing stage properties - I'm a bit confused..

Hi,
I'm a little confused on two fronts regarding display
programming:
A. What the best way to add objects to the stage?
B. How to access stage properties.
I can do both of these when the project is an 'Action Script
Project', but I'm having trouble when it is a 'Flex Project' (e.g.
an MXML file). See the two attached files with questions included
in the comment to see exactly what I mean.
A. What the best way to add objects to the stage?
=====================================
In an action script project that extends Sprite I can just
call addChild()
In an MXML project I can add objects to the stage by first
adding them to a UIComponent, then adding that to the stage.
1. Is that the best way to do it?
In this doc:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=05_Display_Programming_02.html
it says that
quote:
Each SWF file has an associated ActionScript class, known as
the main class of the SWF file. When Flash Player opens a SWF file
in an HTML page, Flash Player calls the constructor function for
that class and the instance that is created (which is always a type
of display object) is added as a child of the Stage object. The
main class of a SWF file always extends the Sprite class
2. why cant I just add a sprite object direct to the stage
without the UIComponent?
3. What is the 'main class', and how can i get access to it?
B. How to access stage properties.
=========================
In an action script project that extends Sprite I can just
call trace(stage.framerate)
But in an MXML file I cannot figure out how to access the
stage properties.
See the attached code for the things that I tried, but which
didnt work.
In the page:
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=140655
It says
quote:
For stage access you have a couple of rules:
* natively, only display objects have inherent access to
stage
* display objects only have a valid reference to stage if
they're within the stage's display list (on the screen, after added
to it with addChild)
* The only display objects which immediately have access to
the stage before the use of addChild (in their constructor) are the
document/application class instance (root) and any instance from
the library placed on the timeline (not created with AS).
* Non-display object classes have to be passed or assigned a
reference to the stage from another object which already has access
to it - they cannot access it otherwise.
4. How do I access the stage properties in the MXML project?
5. I suspect this is related to the "main class", which I
dont yet understand - is it?
Sorry for the long post.
cheers
tom

"tom saffell" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gd7cm9$d1v$[email protected]..
> Thanks Luigi - that helps a lot.
> I hadnt seen the Flex 3 Developer Guide before - it's
very useful.
>
> I now see that I can access properties of the
application object directly
> with
> this.<property>.
> However, the framerate property cannot be set by
actionscript, only in
> MXML (I
> can set it in the <mx:application> tag). But I
need to be able to set it
> programatically, dependent on user input.
>
> 5. Is there a way around this?
> 6. Can I set the stage's framerate to achieve the same
outcome?
>
> I still dont understand why I cannot access the stage
object. When I call
> either
this.stage or
uic.stage * then I get
quote:
Cannot access
> a
> property or method of a null object reference.
My understanding is
> that I
> can access the stage object via any display object on
the display list.
> I'm
> confused about this bit..
>
> * - uic is a UIComponent that has been added to the
display list (i think)
> by
> calling addChild(uic) from the AS3 within the
application
>
> 7. How do I access stage properties in AS3 in an MXML
project?
http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flex/3/html/help.html?content=05_Display_Programming_10.html
It seems like possibly your real problem is that you're
having trouble
searching the Help effectively:
http://flexdiary.blogspot.com/2008/07/getting-help-in-flex-builder.html

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Hi Guys, so, im making a concept of a Round-robin , i think. Its called Fila Circular in Portuguese. Anyway, the thing is, every time the user press Push, a ball(aka circle) must enter the [index] of the hexagon. But, im having issues making the path.
When i Mess the X, the Y changes. When i Mess the Y, the X changes.
Heres the Fully Code, and a picture so you can analyze , in that picture, the startX was very clsoe to 0 as startY was also.But when i moved the endX, it came down all the way.
First the link :
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/5696/duvidajavafx.jpg
Now the Code of the two Classes :
Please help me.
package filacircular;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.geometry.Pos;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.control.TextField;
import javafx.scene.effect.BlendMode;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.scene.image.Image;
import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;
import javafx.scene.layout.GridPane;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.shape.CubicCurve;
import javafx.scene.shape.Line;
* @author André
public class FilaCircular extends Application {
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    private int last;
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        launch(args);
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        Scene scene = new Scene(root, 750, 750, Color.GHOSTWHITE);
        ImageView imv = null;
        GridPane gp = new GridPane();
        gp.setHgap(5);
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        pushBeginBt.setPrefSize(150, 25);
        Button pushEndBt = new Button("Push From End");
        pushEndBt.setPrefSize(150,25);
        Button pullBeginBt = new Button("Pull From Begin");
        pullBeginBt.setPrefSize(150, 25);
        Button pullEndBt = new Button("Pull From End");
        pullEndBt.setPrefSize(150,25);
        Label sizeLabel = new Label("Size");
        TextField textSize = new TextField("5");
        textSize.setEditable(false);
        Label beginLabel = new Label("Begin");
        TextField textBegin = new TextField("");
        textBegin.setEditable(false);
        Label lastLabel = new Label("Last Var");
        TextField textLast = new TextField("");
        textLast.setEditable(false);
        Label queueLabel = new Label("Queue");
        TextField textqueueFull = new TextField("");
        textqueueFull.setEditable(false);
        queueLabel.setPrefSize(100,10);
        try {
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            gp.add(imv,8,25);
            imv.toBack();
            imv.setOpacity(0.5);
        } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
            System.out.println("\nError While Loading Image : \n");
            System.out.println(ex.getMessage() + " Finished Transmitting Error;");
        Line l4 = c.getPathTo4();
        gp.setGridLinesVisible(true);
        gp.add(l4,8,25);
        gp.toBack();
        l4.toFront();
        l4.setVisible(true);
        System.out.println("X: " + imv.getX());
        System.out.println("Y: " + imv.getY());
        gp.add(textSize,1, 13);
        gp.add(sizeLabel, 3, 13);
        gp.add(textBegin,1, 15);
        gp.add(beginLabel, 3, 15);
        gp.add(textLast,1, 17);
        gp.add(lastLabel, 3, 17);
        gp.add(textqueueFull,1, 19);
        gp.add(queueLabel, 3, 19);
        gp.add(pushBeginBt,1, 5);
        gp.add(pushEndBt,4,5);
        gp.add(pullBeginBt,1, 10);
        gp.add(pullEndBt,4,10);
        root.getChildren().add(gp);
        primaryStage.setTitle("Minha Pilha Circular");
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.show();
     public boolean enQueue(int elem)
        if(isFull()) return false;
        else{
            vet[last++] = elem;
            if(last == vet.length) last = 0;
            if(last == begin) queueFull = true;
        return true;
    public boolean isFull()
    {return queueFull;}
    private int size()
     if (last >= begin && !queueFull)return vet.length + last - begin;
     return vet.length + last - begin;
     public boolean isEmpty()
    {return (size()==0);}
    public int front()
        return vet[begin];
    public int deQueue()
    int aux = vet [begin++];
    if(begin==vet.length) begin = 0;
    queueFull = false;
    return aux;
    public int[] getVet() {
        return vet;
    public void setVet(int[] vet) {
        this.vet = vet;
    public int getBegin() {
        return begin;
    public void setBegin(int begin) {
        this.begin = begin;
    public int getLast() {
        return last;
    public void setLast(int last) {
        this.last = last;
    public boolean isQueueFull() {
        return queueFull;
    public void setQueueFull(boolean queueFull) {
        this.queueFull = queueFull;
* To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
* and open the template in the editor.
package filacircular;
import java.io.File;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import javafx.animation.PathTransition;
import javafx.scene.Node;
import javafx.scene.image.Image;
import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;
import javafx.scene.shape.CubicCurve;
import javafx.scene.shape.CubicCurveBuilder;
import javafx.scene.shape.Line;
import javafx.scene.shape.LineBuilder;
import javafx.scene.shape.Path;
import javafx.util.Duration;
* @author André Vinícius Lopes
public class Controle {
    public ImageView getImage() throws MalformedURLException
        String path = "D://FilaCircular.jpg";
        String f = new File(path).toURI().toURL().toExternalForm();
        ImageView imv = new ImageView(f);
        return imv;
    public PathTransition getPathToStack(Node n, Path p)
        PathTransition pt = new PathTransition();
        pt.setNode(n);
        pt.setPath(p);
        pt.setDuration(Duration.millis(2000));
        return pt;
   public Line getPathTo4()
     Line l = LineBuilder.create()
             .startX(100)
             .startY(-50)
             .endX(300)
             .endY(50)
             .build();
       return l;
}Edited by: Andre Lopes on 08/09/2012 21:43

Thanks for the answer guys. I will try to upload the image to make it runnable.
Also, About the pref/width etc..
I dont know where i will put the balls. Anywhere its possible.
For instance, the ball could come from the 5,5 gripPane and enter the slot 0. When i try to insert another, it will go slot 1, and then when i push ( insert) another, it will go slot 2. , and then 3, and then 4. WHen i pull them, it will leave the last slot inserted.
I did not make the path yet. Im trying to make a line from outside the hexagon to inside slot[0] , so i can make the ball follow the line.
Not sure how do this : "" I find that using prefWidth and prefHeigh"" I know how to use pref wifth and pref height, but not sure what you meant.
Also, im uploading the image to run the thing :
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/253/filacircular.jpg/
or
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/5770/filacircular.jpg

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