Novice Mac User (1st Mac) hellllllp!!!
i am trying to burn wmv files onto dvd... first i bought flip4mac so i can play them on qtime and they play; but when i try to encode these files on to dvd the process stops right b4 the burning starts... i tried to encode, than create a disk image so i might be able to disable the non-apple plug-ins (flip4mac) but again the process stopped.... i dont know what else to try! if someone can help it would be greatly appreciated!
iMac G5 20" 2.1ghz Mac OS X (10.4.4)
Since you paid for it, you should have the Pro version of Flip4Mac. Basically, anything you can see and edit in iMovie, you can burn to DVD (see the Flip4Mac instructions to open the file in iMovie, if it is not intuitive). Open the .wmv file in iMovie and then open that movie in iDVD to burn.
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Frustrated: Novice Illustrator User Needs HELP
Frustrated: Novice Illustrator User Needs HELP
Hello All
I am a novice user of Illustrator [after you read my question it will probably be obvious] running Illustrator 14.0.0 (CS4) - on a MAC iMac running 10.4.11. I am a small business owner and have to wear many hats and so I am forced to be my graphic designer by default - ha ha
PROBLEM - If I make a box using the RECTANGLE TOOL... The box should have a point at each Corner and the Middle of the box, as well as, in the Middle of each Side, and middle of Top and Bottom for a total of 9 anchor points... but it only has 5... missing the 4 anchor points in the Middle of each Side, and middle of Top and Bottom. It is the same on Text Boxes too.. I can NOT find a setting to change this.... More, when running Illustrator on my MAC Laptop, It has all 9 anchors on the box... I looked at Preferences etc... and matched everything to be the same but the problem is not fixed?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
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13CrazyTrainAw, c'mon James. Chill it a bit.
Yeah. You continually throw around your little personal jibes, and then if someone calls your bluff, you think you can back out of it with the old "can't you take a joke?" comeback.
In my previous work environment where everyone used Illie, Freehand was a word to be used cautiously – a bit like Macbeth in the theatre.
Well, I didn't work in your previous environment. And FreeHand specifically had nothing to do with this thread until you brought it up. Seems to me it's you who has a FreeHand chip on his shoulder.
I thought you knew my way of expressing myself better...
What, you think I keep a personality registry of regulars here or something? I'll tell you what I don't do: I don't engage in personal insults here. Yet your personal jibes are frequent enough for me to have grown weary of them.
I think I was not dismissing bounding boxes as useless...
Excuse me? "There's absolutely no need to use bounding boxes"?
You are probably right that bounding boxes came with Illie 9.
Probably before that. But I can personally recall that the current-selection bounding box was present in AI9. Unlike some, I try to avoid making claims that I can't immediately substantiate.
I hopped straight from 6 to 9 and that was the first time I had seen them outside of Freewotever.
I'm not familiar with "Freewotever." But if you're again trying to be funny, you are also again revealing your near complete unfamiliarity with it. FreeHand is not the program that continually cluttered the interface with bounding boxes. In fact, for many years that is exactly one of the distractions FreeHand users complained about re Illustrator.
First off, FreeHand's interface doesn't display bounding boxes. It displays only bounding box handles (four dots) on non-basic constructs like clipping paths. (Somewehere around FH 9, it implemented the optional Transform Handles, but that's another thing.) In the cases of rectangles and ellipses, FreeHand doesn't display Bounding Boxes per se. Working in FreeHand has always provided more functionality with much less visual clutter (and tool glut) than Illustrator's defaults.
The difference is that FreeHand has always provided proper live geometric shape primitives--something which Illustrator still doesn't provide, even though it's one of the most basic of all vector drawing interface expectations, being present in just about any vector drawing program on the planet--except Illustrator. That point of confusion is common among those who are experienced only with Illustrator's chronically outdated and archaic interface.
Quite to the contrary, a rectangle drawn in a program that does provide basic live primitives doesn't need a bounding box to perform the bare-bones basic manipulation exemplified, because you can change the aspect ratio of it (and corner radius) anytime you want, regardless of its rotation. You can do this not only in FreeHand, but Canvas, Inkscape, Xara Designer, and even in just about any basic drawing module of just about any "works" or "office" bundle. It's just Illustrator that still fails to provide live shape primitives, and therefore needs a rotated bounding box to provide a very limited subset of such common functionality. You draw a rectangle (or any other geometric primitive) in Illustrator, and all you get is a dumb path. So Illustrator actually needs bounding boxes more than other programs, because of its anemic core funciton set and its hideous user interface.
But of course, someone who is familiar only with Illustrator wouldn't know that. Which is fine...so long as they don't spew derision at programs they know next to nothing about (and users of such programs).
...bearing in mind that I have been at this job since the days of Rotring pens with nosebleeds.
So? I was using Rapidographs and constructing compound rotation in isometric on the board for about a decade before I came to prefer Staedtler pens because I found them less prone to clog. What does that have to do with anything?
Obviously newcomers should be encouraged to use new features, but preferably not before they have grasped the basics thoroughly. How basic bounding boxes are is perhaps a moot point.
Nonsense. Other self-proclaimed "experts" in Illustrator would no doubt argue that bounding boxes were added for the benefit of "beginners." Again, this is not a "new feature." And yes, it is bare-bones basic; just implemented in a half-baked manner in Illustrator.
As for step 3 you are right, but if you turn off the preview you can use the pixels on the paths for alignment,
Egads. That's really grasping at straws, Steve.
...Or use bounding boxes.
Or use bounding boxes.
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Sorry to appear so stupid, but hey..I'm new....lolThe account is just a sign on. She would simply sign on to her account.
The music is a different thing. The itunes store does not keep a copy of your music for you online.
You buy ONE download, then it is your responsibility to backup your music. You should both have your music backed up. You can use this backup to move the music to the new machine.
Migration assistant (comes with every Mac) on your new mac will do this for you -from the old mac to the new one.
Your wife will have to copy her music from the pc and then move it to her new Mac. -
Novice apple user needs help with iCloud
Can anyone help?
I have uploaded iCloud app onto my mac and iPad 2 but I don't think it is working correctly as I don't seem to be able to access any documents, photo's etc via the cloud.
The app seems to be set up correctly on both devices but something is not quite right.
When in my mac I goto system settings and select iCloud icon and then click on the question mark in the bottom left hand corner and I get the following message
Content not available because your computer is not connected to the Internet.
Well I know it is as I can view webpages on both iPad 2 and mac.
Any suggestions?its not a specific app.
currently, document syncing only works with iOS iWork. Open settings on the ipad and scroll down to the iwork app and turn iCloud on.
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Help me to sort out the strings.(novice java user)
Hi,
I was wondering if someone can help me out of this problem.
My program :
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-> then create an aray of integers.
-> then if there are similar strings then i need to group them under the same name and display the output.
for example if the input is like try, try, hard,mad, try for strings and the corresponing int values are 1,2,3,4,5 .... then.... i need to giv ethe o/p as try = 8
hard = 3
mad = g.I don't post here often, but I attempted to solve your problem. I noticed you weren't using any Maps (assumed you didn't know what they were)
I would probably recommend using Maps for a problem like this, but I attempted it by glancing at your code and trying to understand what you were doing.
(Still unsure if I do understand what you are doing :P)
// Program
// Created
// By
// Lethalwire
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
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public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in); //Reads data from user
** -expenses = Number of Categories
** -myCats = Array of Category objects
** -keepGoing = if true, program keeps running
int expenses;
Category[] myCats;
boolean keepGoing = true;;
** Ask user for the number of categories
System.out.println("Enter Amt. of expenses: ");
expenses = in.nextInt();
** initialize the Category array to the correct number of Categories
myCats = new Category[expenses];
** Iterate through the myCats array and get names for each of the objects.
for(int i = 0; i < myCats.length; i++) {
String tempName;
System.out.println("Enter name of category: ");
tempName = in.next();
myCats[i] = new Category(tempName);
** while loop tests keepGoing
** creates temporary variables :
** -tempCatName = takes the user's selected category
** -myTempCost = takes the current cost that needs to be added to the selected Category
** -exists = Checks to see if tempCatName exists in our array
** if !exists, error println is displayed
** -tempChar = takes the value of 'y' or 'n' to determine if the program continues
System.out.println("-----------------------");
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String tempCatName;
double myTempCost;
boolean exists = false;
String tempChar;
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** They are then displayed
System.out.println("Totals");
for(int i = 0; i < myCats.length; i++)
System.out.println( myCats[i].getName() + ":\t\t\t$" + myCats[i].getTotal() );
** Cateogry class
** Holds an objects name and an ArrayList of double values
class Category {
** -name = variable that keeps track of the current object's name
** -prices = ArrayList that adds double values when called for
private String name;
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** Constructor takes 1 parameter
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Category(String n) {
name = n;
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return name;
** Adds val to prices.
void addCost(double val) {
prices.add(val);
** Iterates through the prices arraylist and adds the values up storing them in total
** Method returns the total price;
double getTotal() {
double total = 0.0;
for(Double d: prices)
total += d;
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Novice LabView user query - LONG
Hi
I've only been using LabView for a couple of months and need to use it to
remotely control an instrument. The instrument is capable of running stand
alone and is operated via a menu system. The menu is displayed in an LCD
panel with menu labels sitting above several push buttons. The menus are
accessed using push buttons with the labels (and hence functions) above
each push button changing according to which sub menu is displayed in the
LCD panel ie when you press one of the buttons a sub menu executes which
means that subsequent presses of the same button control different
instrument parameters. (Its a very common solution found wherever space
limits both the display size and numbers of buttons)
I want to use LabView to remotely control the instrument and I thought it
would be best done by emulating the stand alone type of menu operation.
This would make the remote control software intuitive to users already
familiar with the instrument. I realise that by trying to emulate the menu
system I am constraining the usability of the control software with the
same constraints which exist in the menu/push button mode of the stand
alone instrument, but to be honest there isn't much more functionality to
be gained.
I've tried all sorts of things but have so far been unable to figure out
how to do the menu/push button type interface using LabView. I tried to
write a VI which has a single boolean control (switch until released
mechanical action, the type which mimics the stand alone mode) which
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Can anyone help with this very basic query, or point me to a more
appropriate newsgroup/forum. I am not a programmer and only have
experience of using LabView on a very basic level, so please bear this in
mind when offering help.
Many thanks in advance, all advice gratefully received.
Cheers
Bill
[email protected]Bill Symonds wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've only been using LabView for a couple of months and need to use it to
> remotely control an instrument. The instrument is capable of running stand
> alone and is operated via a menu system. The menu is displayed in an LCD
> panel with menu labels sitting above several push buttons. The menus are
> accessed using push buttons with the labels (and hence functions) above
> each push button changing according to which sub menu is displayed in the
> LCD panel ie when you press one of the buttons a sub menu executes which
> means that subsequent presses of the same button control different
> instrument parameters. (Its a very common solution found wherever space
> limits both the display size and numbers of buttons)
>
>
>
> Many thanks in advance, all advice gratefully received.
>
> Cheers
>
> Bill
>
> [email protected]
Bill,
Here is the way I would approach this. Hopefully I can describe it
meaningfully.
Start will a top level VI that recreates the main menu with the buttons and
text
as seen on the instrument. Save this VI (ie as Main.vi) and then save another
copy with a name
that relates to ONE of the buttons on Main.vi (for instance if a button is
labeled Setup, then save the
second vi as Setup.vi. Change the buttons, labels , etc to match the menu
appearance of this sub-menu.
On Main.vI have the button labeled Setup call the VI Setup.vi. You may also
want to have a button
labeled back or quit or similar to get back to Main.vi. If you follow this
apporoach what you will have
is a number of VIs each mimicing the appreance of the LCD after the related
button is pressed.
When all this is done you can go to each VI and have it send the appropriate
commands to the instrument.
This may seem like more work, but it is much easier to modify / maintain.
If you would like a small example let me know and I will e-mail you one.
Also check the examples (espcially the Dynamic load example) these
should give you some idea about how to implement the windowing system.
Kevin Kent
Attachments:
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I see that 4.2 is in production. I'm running 4.1. Is it easy/safe to upgrade to 4.2? My platform is Windows 7 and Oracle 11g xe. I'm no DBA and I prefer to avoid quicksand. Perhaps those of you who have already been down the path can advise me about this.
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I've upgraded a number of instances without any issues.
Why not consider using VirtualBox or some other form of VM? This way, you can create a snapshot before upgrading, and if something goes awry, you can easily roll back to just before the upgrade. I use this feature all of the time (as recently as yesterday) with VMWare, as it makes any types of upgrades almost fool-proof, in the sense that you can get back to where you were before easily.
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Thanks.Hi,
in my opinion, it will be by acquiring an wireless router that will broadcast your signal instead of using your computer ressource.
you can then plug your dsl or cable modem directly into the wireless router (as an airport express, airport extrem or any other router brand). by locating the wireless router in a central area of your house, you signal should be accessible anywhere in it.
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I'm a novice mac. user and if it's possible to send messeges (yahoo, aol.etc.) other than mac. users using the Mail? If it's possible I need help--if possible, step by step, to set up my Mail. I appreciate it if you can help me.
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Yes it is possible but if you have a free Yahoo account, Yahoo prevents accessing a free Yahoo account with any email client like the Mail.app for U.S. residents. If you have a paid Yahoo account which I believe costs only $20/year, you can access the account with the Mail.app and the account settings to set up the account in Mail are provided at Yahoo's website.
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