Menuitem enable Flex 2

I am positive this has to be simple. How can you
programmatically disable/enable a menuitem in Flex 2. I have been
beating my head against the wall for two hours now. Any help would
be appreciated. Thanks so much for any help!
CurtKauf

1) get a reference to the node using an e4x expression:
var xmlMenuItem:XML =
xmlMyMenu..menuitem.(attribute('label')=='whatever')[0]
2) set any attribute you want:
xmlMenuItem.@enabled = true;
Tracy

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You're having the same problem as me. You'll be happy to know that I solved my problem.
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Message was edited by: JoeBeans

Beat Mapping prior to Flex's transient analysis totally wrecks Flex. I just wasted several hours because of this but I think I found a solution.
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CCTM wrote:
When you adjust the length or position using Flex in the Arrange, all this happens in realtime on playback. The original file is unaltered. You will therefore NOT see any effect of Flex length adjusting or editing in the Sample Editor.
Robert Hartmann1 wrote:
Watched them videos here online, it all looks so simple but when I try in my logic it just don't >work.
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This is all great, but I also want these new sampler instruments to appear in my main EXS library so I can use them on other projects, but when you pull up a new project they don't appear, they only appear within the project they were created for.
I mean I could transfer them all manually, but it's a bit long winded. Therefore has anybody found a way of shifting these temporary EXS files to their main library permanently within logic itself?

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"A few important things to note here:
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If no Project folder has previously been created, the resulting Sample Instrument (.exs) file is stored in the default Logic directory (users:Music:logic), and the EXS file merely references the original audio file, wherever it may be stored. If the Project has been saved “with assets”, but not with ‘Copy exs instruments or samples to Project Folder’ ticked, the EXS instrument file is still created, but the audio sample is still referencing the audio file in the project folder, not any separate sample file. Saving the project with ‘Copy Exs inst. & Samples’ ticked does indeed copy the audio (sample) and the exs instrument to new directories within the project folder.
If you slice the region by transients (by first enabling Flex mode, then using the contectual menu to “Slice by Transients” (or the old Strip Silence method), and then convert to a Sampler Instrument using the ‘by regions’ function, the individual regions are converted to new audio files which are separately referenced by the EXS instrument produced. The above comments regarding the resulting audio files, sampler instruments and any samples still apply.
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Hope this helps
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Hi guys,
I am a Scandinavian songwriter-producer and I'm in the middle of an important project that will be mixed in about a week. We recorded the drums originally at the tempo of 145, but decided to change the tempo to 152 (yeah, it's a drastic change). I haven't got much time left till the mixing, but the drums are still at the wrong tempo and thus need to be recorded again or tweaked to the correct tempo if that's possible. To be able to re-record them I'd need to pack all my recording equipment (mixer, preamps, mics, stands etc.) and travel a long way to a different town, which I'd obviously love to avoid if possible.
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Hi
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