Graphic Invisible

I just swapped to InDesign CS4. I have a full color document I'm working on with lots of graphics. I just placed another graphic and it's not showing up. The outline is there but the graphic has disappeared. It's a tiff file cmyk. I have my display set at high performance. The transparency is set at 100%. What else could it be?

First off, it's possible the first graphic was really there, but the scaling changed and you only saw a white area, or perhaps it was shifted beyond the bounds of the frame. Look in the links panel and see how many copies there are, then use the "Go to link" button to find each one.
There is a bug in the Windows version of ID that was introduced in CS3. You must press the CTRL key BEFORE you click the mouse in order for it to scale the content of the frame while re-sizing. It's annoying at first, but it becomes a habit pretty quickly.
Peter

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I would like to overlay a graphic on top of an array.

I have the framework for a front panel control that I would like to use. The easiest way for me to have a scaleable soloution would be to have a large, 2D boolean control array that I can simply resize for different projects.
Each boolean control needs to have a different label, so that is making it very hard to just use a simple boolean array. I have come pretty close to a solution, but I just can't get it working due to the front panel ordering.
What I would like to do, ideally, is be able to place a transparant overlay on TOP of the the array, sized so that each element in the boolean array has a text label on top. When I need to use a different sized array, I can just put a different image in and not have to mess with the underlying code.
I've tried a few things, and everythig ALMOST works. The overlay looks great on top of the boolean buttons, but the image is on top of the array and blocks the operation of the array control. If I put the array on top of the transparant graphic, the array hides the graphic.
I really need to be able to either click through the graphic as if it is not there except for decoration, or make the array control transparant. The boolean buttons already have a transparant overlay on them already. If I put transparant buttons alone on top of the overlay, it works great, but I can't put the buttons into an array and still have the transparancy working.
Is there some way to make the graphic invisible to the mouse and allow me to click buttons underneath? I'm getting pretty close to just printing out my transparant graphic onto transparancy paper and taping it on top of the monitor...
Solved!
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etsellers wrote:
I have the framework for a front panel control that I would like to use. The easiest way for me to have a scaleable soloution would be to have a large, 2D boolean control array that I can simply resize for different projects.
Each boolean control needs to have a different label, so that is making it very hard to just use a simple boolean array. I have come pretty close to a solution, but I just can't get it working due to the front panel ordering.
What I would like to do, ideally, is be able to place a transparant overlay on TOP of the the array, sized so that each element in the boolean array has a text label on top. When I need to use a different sized array, I can just put a different image in and not have to mess with the underlying code.
I've tried a few things, and everythig ALMOST works. The overlay looks great on top of the boolean buttons, but the image is on top of the array and blocks the operation of the array control. If I put the array on top of the transparant graphic, the array hides the graphic.
I really need to be able to either click through the graphic as if it is not there except for decoration, or make the array control transparant. The boolean buttons already have a transparant overlay on them already. If I put transparant buttons alone on top of the overlay, it works great, but I can't put the buttons into an array and still have the transparancy working.
Is there some way to make the graphic invisible to the mouse and allow me to click buttons underneath? I'm getting pretty close to just printing out my transparant graphic onto transparancy paper and taping it on top of the monitor...
"And now for something completly different...."
You have described a picture control!
Take a look at the code that was part of the CC & Friends project. THe GUI looks like this;
In that app we did not know at development time, what the emoticons the end user would include in their collection so a picture control gave us the option to "build the GUI" at run time. When that code loads up, it develops the image the user will see and keeps track of where each emoticon is located in the picture. When a user clicks on an image the coordinates of the click within the picture are used to find which emoticon the user selected.
So maybe you should concider implementing your GUI using a picture control.
Ben
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How can I be sure of that? If it is not, what code can I put to
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1. Without a flash ciommunication server for TRUE streaming
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http://www.mediacollege.com/video/streaming/overview.html
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I recently got the free trial of Flash CC on my computer at home to work on a few projects that I am working on at my schools computers, which have CS5. Recently when I went onto the schools CS5 Flash, I imported my project which was a Flash CC project onto the computer and all of my library graphics apear to be invisible or maybe missing. All I see on stage is the center point (forgot what the little white circle is called) for each of the assets. I can still see the path of the tweens, the white center point is still there, and each graphic is still in the library, its just no image appears. Note, I have done this before (importing CC files onto CS5) and it has worked just fine.
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Update display card driver
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It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
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I have a strange problem that seems to be occurring randomly but regulary on my computer. It also seems to effect some of my collegues but not to the point it does for me.
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top (but actually is under the invisible window).
This applies to all applications in the Office 2013 installation, I have seen the bug for Word, Excel, Outlook (main window, open email conversations, etc), Powerpoint and Access.
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How do I make a JTextArea invisible to the mouse?

Consider the applet below. There is a small JTextArea sitting in the glass pane. There are 3 JButtons sitting in a JPanel that is sitting in the content pane. One is completely under the JTextArea, one is half in and half out, & the last is completely outside it (at least I hope thats what it looks like on your machine.) The idea is when you click the disable button the JTextArea is disabled and you can click on the button that's underneath it.
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/* <applet code="MyTest14" width="400" height="100"></applet> */
// testing glass panes
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
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jta.setWrapStyleWord(true);
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import java.awt.event.*;
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I just ran into an odd problem, and unfortunately the book got printed before we saw the problem … ugh!
I set up a chapter header for a book. It was a graphic of wood to which I added a 0p9 feathered edge. In a text box on top of this, I put the chapter name in white type. They were both on the same layer, but the text box was on top.
I didn't notice at the time that when I exported the page to PDF, the graphic disappeared … and since the type was white, the whole chapter header was invisible. If I opened the PDF in Acrobat Pro using Pitstop, I could select a box where it was supposed to be, but couldn't make it show up.
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Now I know I've used a feathered edge frequently, and have never run into this problem before. Does anyone have any idea why this time should be any different? There's was no color other than black, only one layer, and nothing was set to non-printing. I used the same export settings I always use. Stumped here … and very unhappy that we missed it and printed the book without the headers (my fault for not catching it, but doesn't make me any happier).
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InDesign CS5 (version 7.0)
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My InDesign files are too big to upload anywhere, but these two screen shots show an example of this problem.
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Basicly, I'm stacking 50 transparent "floating" elements. It works fine most of time, but if I randomly resize my Flash Player Window, I can get the first "invisible" element to overlap the last "visible" :
It seems to be happening right when the last "floating" element should disappear. Instead, it gets "over" the previous one. It happens upon container resize and scrolls. I'v encountered this issue on lastest 2, 2.1 and 3 TLF builds.
Beside the visual "bug", it also screws up my container.getContentBounds().height calls - which can make scrolling "trembling", as the height gets reajusted.
I'm running out of ideas about how to handle this. This bug appears whenever I use "floating" graphics and I can't think of any other way to display graphics on the left side of my chat-lines.
Maybe someone ran into this very problem and figured out a way to make it work?
Excuse my english, thanks in advance,
Lionel.

Thank you for your report. And I have found the root cause.
In BaseCompose.as
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