Instance names for UI Components

Is there any kind of an issue with naming instances of UI Components?
I named one with "movie clip" selected in the pop up menu underneath. There is no "UI Component" option.
I am working on the files from Adobe's CIB. I noticed that in another file, a UI component was supposed to have already been named, but the field is empty. Anyone know what's going on?

CIB?
There is no issue with giving a component an instance name, you have to if you want to reference it from code. The instance name is in the same spot as it is for any display object, in the properties panel...

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Reducing a SWF file size / creating "instance names" for website loading time improvement

Im hoping someone clever can help...
What i have done so far:
1) Created a flipbook using indesign CS5.5 that contains approx 25
images (embedded PNG's), these need to be good quality as this is a
portfolio - I'd also like to keep the 'page curl' effect. This makes the SWF generated cira 25MB.
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these need to be good quality as this is a portfolio
The approach to your portfolio website seems very outdated and will not help you in the near future. Flash is being used less and less with the increase in Mobile Devices being used to access the internet - a large chunk of which include Apple's iDevices which don't support Flash. This alone is a reason not to do it, however there are a few other big issues with the method you have chosen.
There is no "content" on your website for any search engine to find. No text. No meta data. No image alt tags. No titles. Nothing. In other words, your website will not be found by the people you are trying to attract. I would imagine for a portfolio site, you may want to re-think this approach.
The way the Flash file was created is the worst possible way to add Flash to the web as you have only embedded image files - and this is your entire site?! You could have included some text, which would have been viewable by search engines, and used color shapes to increase quality but lower filesize.
The filesize meant it took me over 1 minute to get off your home page. The average internet user will leave your site if you do not keep them interested after 5 seconds. In other words, you should have content of interest viewable within 5 seconds of load time.
If you are set on keeping the Flash setup for your website, re-build using as much text, color shapes and lines as you can (vector work in other words) and do not rasterize/export as image. This will drastically reduce load time and increase quality. You will also want to divide your file into sections and create more than 1 HTML page so that the browser only loads a bit at a time. You might also want to set a maximum size container for the Flash file as on my browser, it looks extremely pixelated and is very large, but unclear.
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Rik

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Re: Separate 'instance names' for CS4 Pro.

I want to have serveral different words to appear on my stage with their own buttons. What is a good solution for this program? Here is my code for your review.
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Do you understand any of the code you are showing and how any of it relates to your question? You should explain your code if so. If your several words are contained in the movieclips named Process and Cycles, then this portion of your code will make them all appear and disappear depending on which of the 4 buttons you click.
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btn_hide_cycles.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, hideText);
function showText(event:Event):void {
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function hideText(event:Event):void {
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If your intention is to show them separately, then your code is not doing that. That code would be more like....
btn_show_process.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, showProcessText);
btn_hide_process.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, hideProcessText);
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function hideProcessText(event:Event):void {
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btn_show_cycles.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, showCyclesText);
btn_hide_cycles.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, hideCyclesText);
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Hello, I apologize if this question has already been asked but as the title states I'm having problems with the instance names of my buttons. I am using Actionscript 3 with Flash CS5. I apologize in advance for being verbose but it'd be best if I explained my problem in detail.
I have my project set up so that everything occurs in one MovieClip and buttons within the MovieClip are clicked to navigate through the MovieClip. The MovieClip contains several frames which are all unique and contain a variety of textboxes, MovieClips, buttons, classes and other custom classes. All of these components are created directly in Flash Professional by dragging them from the library onto the stage inside of the MovieClip.
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With all this strangeness, I commented out the code for these 2 specific buttons to see if it would work without them. Sure enough it did.
I believe that my buttons have lost their stage instance names and I do not know how to fix this problem. I have tried deleting the buttons and creating them again but to no avail. It does work, however, if I use the Button component that Flash has but I do not want to do that because I'd like to use my own custom buttons (I know the Button component is customizeable, but I'd like to use my own anyways).
If anyone could help, please how can I fix this problem? If my .fla or specific code needs to be provided, I can do so.

Without looking at your code I can't say 100% what is going on. However, I suspect what is happening is that you're doing the following:
Your button is on stage in frame 1
You add an event listener to that button
At some point, you go to a frame where the button does not exist.
When you come back to frame 1, your listener doesn't work anymore
Or some variation of above, where an instance was on the stage, is removed, and even though it appears to have been added back you can't reference it anymore. I've discussed fixes for this issue in depth in this article, but it all boils down to the fact that when the object is removed from the stage the variable that contained the instance the first time will go to null, and then when you go back to the frame with the instance on it, the variable will be populated with an instance which is probably not the same as the first one.
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Multiple MovieClips with same instance name

I'm following a tower defence tutorial and part of the code is set up so I can build towers on the "grass" movie clip. I wanted to add more patches of "grass" and gave them all the same instance name so I can be able to place towers on them, but I have the problem that I can only place towers on the first item I placed and has the instance name of "grass". I can't seem to place towers on the other patches of grass.
I removed the instance name of the first patch of grass and it let me build towers on the second patch, but the second patch only.
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We supply our software package that also includes the unattended installation (with /QS and so on) of SQL Server R2 Express (with SP2).
The setup works good in about 99.9% cases, but one customer complained that after the "successful SQL Sever installation (at least, it looked so!) he could not open the supplied database getting some strange error messages...
After some months of trial-n-error attempts we are now able to reproduce the problems this custumer had. But we cannot find the reason of the problem.
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SQL Server 2008 Express - the default SQLEXPRESS instance
SSMS
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SQL Server 2008 Express R2 (with SP 1 or SP2 - ?) - the default SQLEXPRESS instance
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SQL Server 2008 Express
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SQL Server 2008 Express R2
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When we chose the default SQLEXPRESS instance - it failed with the following info:
Configuration status: Failed: see details below
Configuration error code: 0x7FCCE689
Configuration error description: External component has thrown an exception.
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2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: External component has thrown an exception.
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: The configuration failure category of current exception is ConfigurationValidationFailure
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Configuration action failed for feature SQL_Engine_Core_Inst during timing Validation and scenario Validation.
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException (0x80004005): External component has thrown an exception.
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: at SSisDefaultInstance(UInt16* , Int32* )
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.SniServer.NLRegSWrapper.NLregSNativeMethod Wrapper.SSIsDefaultInstanceName(String sInstanceName, Boolean& pfIsDefaultInstance)
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Exception: System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException.
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Source: Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.SniServerConfigExt.
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Message: External component has thrown an exception..
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Watson Bucket 1 Original Parameter Values
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2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Parameter 3 : System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException@-2147467259
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Parameter 4 : System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException@-2147467259
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Parameter 5 : SniServerConfigAction_Install_atValidation
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Unfortunately the simple check the registry
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Victor Nijegorodov
Victor Nijegorodov

Adding a variable an instance name

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How does RAC know which instance should start from which machine?
Thanks.

The spfile is NOT the correct answer, actually.
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I created a two nodes ASM grid , when the grid installation(11.2.0.1) finished it created the +ASM1 as the instance name for both my nodes.
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CAD SQL Instance Name match

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I'm using this code to load and external swf, now how do I assign an instance name for it?
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