Labview Forum Star Rating Seems Odd - For Those Blue Contributers ;)

Whilst browsing throught the fourms one day....
I noticed the following indicated 1 star thread
Absolutely Beginner in LabView.(But advanced in CVI) Need help! http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=39090
Now I read these one star threads because often the person giving one star either has a really good reason or .... its contoversial or... well anyway,
I thought that the total seemed in error. That is to say that in the above thread the estimation on the summary was indicated as 1 star / 1 rating, whilst there actually appear to be 2 ratings. One of 5 stars (no supprises, it was for a contribution from Dennis Knutson) and another of one star for Wendy L (I would actually have probably clicked some more stars on that but I have left it alone for the moment).
So why do the blue contributers get proprity over anyone else? or is it a bug? or has the sytem changed?
Now I know the Star ratings are contentious, but if the thing can't even add! I must have thousands of stars by now? or is it really zero after all?
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your not alone, I can't rate those either....
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Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger

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Thanks for opening this up, as I suspect most of us have gone through the "let's see that's a 1 or no... probably a 2, perhaps I can clean up the backgound and then it would be 3. " etc etc.
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1 and 2, they are going to be deleted at some stage in the future, unless it is some rare thing, and that doesn't happen every shoot.
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This is not the thread on project names, but we have from the beginning way back in iPhoto(5) put them in as a date and description.
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Reserving 5 only for the 'very best image you ever took of a rose", is a bit limiting and what if my "Very best waterfall picture' is even better?
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I'm aware of the problems in how applications work in an OS when that OS keeps changing (too much?!). Yes, this could be very consuming from a resource perspective and could take some time.
That's why my second recommendation addresses this problem without having to worry about the OS. It is not a huge resource or time issue for Adobe to provide internal sizing controls for all aspects of its software that have nothing to do with the OS or the resolution of monitor. We've had that sizing control for how big the file we are working with shows on the screen since Photoshop 1.0. I am aware of applications that added such sizing controls over 10 years ago and one of them over 15 years ago. This isn't new.
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I would like to illustrate my idea with an example. I want to use an existing English beginners textbook (for kids), scan the images in the textbook, store the content (rules of grammar) in a database and store example sentences in a database.
I would like to record basic audio sentences from the textbook (Do you know tomorrow's weather), incorporate some animation (baseball player hitting a home run), incorporate some basic video (purchasing an item at the grocery store), add a quiz, test question or puzzles, etc..
In addition, since this is a classroom setting and the kids are split into groups, I would like to store a seating chart with the kids names and pictures in a database. After the first segment is finished (e.g. purchasing a toy at the store) the kids next perform an activty. I want to use a combination of audio, video, and animation to explain the activity, give instructions, split the class into groups,and perform the activity.
As I mentioned before, I would like to start an off-line discusion for those of you who are willing to share some of you knowledge and experience with both Flash and Flex. Since you are extremely busy, maybe you might be able to point me in the right direction.
Hopefully, some of you can provide some sound technical advice.
Thanks in advance
Michael Poplawski

This is an abitious project even for some-one well versed in flex/flash, i have to give you points for outstanding courage on this .
You need to cover quite a few areas in a project like this both for the client and the back end, you need a strong understanding of animation(either through code or the flash timeline), data parsing, logic trees for the quiz/test elements and a lot more before the first line of code would be written.
In Australia there are already a few companies using flex for online educational applications and at least 1 state educational Authority. A search on the internet will find several sites pertaining to flash/flex based online education software and this would be a starting point to give you an idea of the strength flex has in this area.
Beyond this it is not the sort of project that 'help' would be readily available for unless it was relating to very specific issues you could readily define. Also this is not the best forum to request this type of help as the forum is more about testing a beta product. I am sure that if you start learning about flex and have trouble understanding different aspects of how things work there will be plenty of support from the flex community.
Message was edited by: David_F57
by forum I don't mean the whole forum just this branch.

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