Need help with simple(?) animation

I need to animate a saw blade cutting letters out of a
background bit map (the cuts are all straight lines). Coming from
the Director world I would probably layer 2 copies of the
background, the top one with the letters cut, the bottom one whole.
I would then mask the top layer with an alpha channel and animate
the alpha channel to gradually reveal the cut. Is there a better
way to do this in Flash? Anyone have an open source example?
I’ve got the letters as curves in Illustrator if that helps.
Thanks, Sorry about such a broad newbie question.

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As part of your learning, you will have to develop the ability to select an approach to a problem, create a design that reflects that approach, and then implement the design with code that you create.
So, it's inappropriate for us to take the problem statement that you have been given and short-circuit your learning process by giving you the implemented problem solution. We can comment on the individual questions that you may have, and point out problems and errors that we see in the code that you develop.
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If you have problems, post short example code that shows the problem, and explain your question clearly. We can't read minds.
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Server:
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import java.io.IOException;
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import java.net.*;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class MultiClient {
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import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
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package ToJeTo;
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import java.util.*;
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User Manager:
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import java.util.*;
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import java.util.*;
public class RequestForFile {
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    public RequestForFile(String fileName) {
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The user logs in with his nickname and ip address. He defines his own shared folder and makes it available for other users that log on to server.
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User manager class is there to store another list, a list of users that are connected with server.
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GUI should look somewhat like this:

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Thanks for ur help!i have moved BufferedReader outside the loop. I dont think i am getting exception as i can c the output once.What i am trying to do is repeat the process which i m getting once.What my method does is first one sends the packet to multicasting group (UDP) and other method receives the packets and prints.

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Hi everyone,
Please direct me to a FAQ or other resource, or help me with this problem:
I want to create a text field (or similar container) that contains both ordinary text AND a URL/hyperlink in it. For example, the following text might appear in the text field:
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-Dennis Reda
[email protected]

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import java.awt.*;
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ps hope this helped

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Hello, I'm fairly new to Java, taking my first year in it. I have a little applet that I have to write up but I'm having some difficulties. Someone please help :)
OBJECTIVE: Print out the following using a FOR loop.
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this:
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table of contents. Click on an item and it will jump to that slide.
Method:
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action script to pause and allow clicking.
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release - jump to slide" or "on release - jump to frame" - I have a
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how would you get the script to work.
Please Help -
Flash not a good friend of mine - so any time I can avoid --
is great...but it is what it is - i do anything to get it to work.
Thank you in advance for your help and I really look forward
to your thoughts.
Regards -
Vince

Hi
I didn't understand a few things here.
1. Are you trying these things using Adobe Presenter or this is just plain Powerpoint you are talking about?
2. Are you trying to view the output on the Slide show or presenter output
If you are doing it for PowerPoint slide show, try setting the animations using with previous and after previous
1. first insert the video. Set it to play automatically
2. Insert the first text box. Apply animation on it saying "with Previous". This will make the animation play as soon as the video starts. If you want some delay apply some delay for the animation in the animation pane, such that the animation appears when the video has content sound
3. For the remaining text boxes apply animations as "after Previous". This will make the animations play after the previous animation has completed.
4. Now all you have to do is applay delay to the animations to adjust them as and how you want
Hope this is what you wanted to achieve
Thanks
Mahesh

Need help with simple folder action or script

I have created an export preset in Lightroom that exports images to a folder called "To Email" on my hard drive, and then automatically attaches those images to a new email in my email client (Mailplane).
It's a great solution that allows me to send a photo via email with one click from Lightroom. However, I want to take it a step further by creating a folder action or script that automatically deletes the image after it is attached to the email. This will allow me to put the folder somewhere deeper in my file system without having to worry about cleaning it out all the time.
Unfortunately, I have no experience with Automator or AppleScript. Can you help? Thanks.

I think you need to rework elements of your workflow.
For example, you say the export preset creates and sends the email.
If this is the case, the the logical place to make your change would be to edit that preset action (I don't have Lightroom to know whether this is an option there or not).
The problem with using a Folder Action is that the Folder Action will trigger when the file is dropped in the folder, but that will be before the email is generated or sent, so you run the risk of deleting the file before it's sent.
So if you can't edit the export preset to do the deletion I would suggest decoupling the 'send an email' and 'delete file' elements from the Lightroom action - in other word change Lightroom to just export the file, and have a separate folder action that triggers when files are added to that folder. The folder action script can take care of generating the email and sending it out, knowing when the email is sent and therefore when it's safe to delete the file.
WIthout seeing more of the current workflow it's not easy to be more specific.

Need help with jerky animation in Flash CC

Hello,
I'm creating an animation of a planet orbiting the sun and it is stuttering a little bit no matter what I try. I'm working in Flash CC, the animation is done with a custom ease and only 2 keyframes (one at the slowest point and one at the fastest). The end result has to be .mp4 so I am exporting as video. But even the swf is a little jerky. My frame rate is 29.97. The animation path is oval in shape (using an oval guide path which the planet follows), the planet is small, maybe 6 mm across, and the planet's speed varies as it orbits the sun (thus the custom ease). The number of frames in the animation is 202, that's how long it takes for the planet to complete one rotation. That anim is then looped in the movie as a graphic.
thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Here would be a similar example, linear versus an ease tossed in. I made an oval similar to yours (633px by 446px) and just used it as a guide:
Here's some videos showing the movement I get per frame. You can even see Flash Pro (CS6 in this case) exporting some odd frame choices. For example right before the 5 second mark the circle jumps 2 movements and stays in place for an extra frame (easy to see stepping through it using arrows and Quicktime player). It does this consistently even when using "None" for Quicktime compression, or using a codec.
Here's some video examples (30FPS over 202 frames, 6.7 seconds):
Linear Movement
-60 to 60 ease at the opposite side
(Source MOV (Animation codec @ 85 quality) to verify MP4 is the same)
I imagine your results are the same. It's just too much movement for to little time to really get it to play back smooth. Double the time and you'll cut that in half and I think you'll be happier. Increasing FPS beyond 30 might not be a good idea as playback will start to become machine dependant at that resolution and it could bog even worse.

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