Object-Drawing mode

In my Flash class, we are using a CS6 book and I have CC at home. Steps in the book tell me to toggle or untoggle the Object-Drawing mode, and it shows pictures, but it's nowhere on the CC tool panel. Can anyone tell me where to find it?

the blue arrow is pointing to the object drawing toggle

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Why doesn't Object Drawing mode stay on?

Even when I draw shapes using Object Drawing and leave it
turned on, some shapes will randomly act as though I'm using Merge
mode. For example, if I marquee-select several shapes on a layer
and apply a shape tween, some of the objects will become split
where I dragged the marquee box and the parts will do their own,
separate tweens.
Am I doing something wrong or is this just another
quirk?

Not sure i understand - by having them all unique shapes you
are making it exponentially harder -
all you have to do is convert 1 sqaure shape to a symbol -
then edit that symbol and make your alpha
animation (fade the square out).
Next - drag as many instances (or copy and paste) of this
symbol necessary to fill up the image - to
place them all on different layers (you wont need to anyway)
select tham all - right click over them
and select Distribute to Layers (takes a couple seconds).
Then simply duplicate this scene (using
the Scene panel) for each new image. Really simple :)
Chris Georgenes / mudbubble.com / keyframer.com / Adobe
Community Expert
tunghoy wrote:
> OK, then maybe you can suggest a different method of
what I'm doing. I have
> several dozen scenes, each with a photo on the bottom
layer that covers the
> whole stage. Layered on top of the photo is a grid of
(almost) squares, divided
> among 10 layers. Think of a 9 x 6 table that covers the
stage. Each of the 10
> layers has a random handful of squares that change
opacity together.
>
> As each scene progresses, the squares change opacity,
revealing more or less
> of the photo underneath. So tweened over 100 frames, the
squares in group 1
> will change from 10% to 25% opacity, the squares in
group 2 will change from
> 50% to 42% opacity and so on. In the next scene, the
squares in the groups will
> change again. It creates a sort of twinkling effect.
>
> Right now, the squares are all shapes, not symbols. I
didn't want to put each
> square in a separate layer, because it would take me
forever to create 54
> tweens in each of dozens of scenes. And I still have
dozens more scenes to
> create.
>
> Can you think of a way to do this that makes more sense?
>

Cant tell when Merge drawing model vs. Object drawing model

I keep drawing shapes on the same layer, overlapping them,
and then trying to delete one of the shapes to cut a shape out of
the first. This does not work automatically as Help says it does, I
have to go to "Modify > Combine Objects > Union" to merge
them, THEN I can cut my shape out. When is this supposed to occur
"automatically"? How am I supposed to know what mode I'm in?

sifupeter,
> I keep drawing shapes on the same layer, overlapping
> them, and then trying to delete one of the shapes to cut
> a shape out of the first. This does not work
automatically
> as Help says it does
It depends entirely on what mode you're in. ;) When you have
a drawing
tool selected (Rectangle, Pencil, etc.), take a look at the
"circle" button
near the "magnet" button at the bottom of the Tools panel.
Hover over the
circle button to see the "Object Drawing" tool tip. When that
button is
pressed in, you're in Object Drawing mode; when it's not
pressed in, you're
not.
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Drawing Modes

Hi
Apologies if this has already been asked. I'm new to Flash 8
and using Windows XP. I like the ability to switch between drawing
and merge mode in this version but thought the tool tip in options
would change to alert me to which mode I'm in. I've notices it only
ever says Object Drawing regardless of which mode I'm in.
Admittedly the button changes but the wording doesn't?
Am I missing something.
Any comments would be more than welcome.
Thanks George

The tooltip tells you what the button is for (ie for object
drawing mode).
That's what tooltips do (they are just little mini help
messages). The
tooltip is not supposed to indicate the current mode (ie if
the button is on
or off). None of the other tooltips do (eg the snap to
objects tooltip
doesn't change depending on whether the snapping is on/off),
and I've not
seen tooltips in any other application do that either. It is
the state of
the button itself that indicates whether object drawing mode
is on or off.
The only real problem here is your expectation about what
tooltips do.
Jeckyl

Object drawing poorly aligned bounding box problem

Whenever I draw a shape with Object Drawing turned on the blue bounding box that appears whenever it is selected isn't aligned properly to the outer edgers of the shape. Like this:
Admittedly it isn't a major problem it's just a bit irritating especially when people I'm teaching to use Flash ask me why it looks the way it does.
Does anyone else have this problem?
Does anyone know if it can be fixed?

Hi Jen,
I'm most grateful for your response!
I am running Flash CS4 10.0.2 on a 2.4GB Mac OS X 10.5, MacBook Pro with 4GB RAM.
Following your reply, I tried a new AS2 file - and there is absolutely no issue! Its fine. How odd!
However, the problem occurs in all AS3 files - if I create a new Flash AS 3.0 file and draw on the stage, the problem occurs for the following shapes:
1. Rectangle tool
2. Ellipse tool
3. Polygon Tool
Rectangle primitive and Ellipse primitive are fine.
The smaller the object is, the more the bounding box is out of alignment. I have attached a further screengrab to show how bad things get when zoomed in working on small shapes (zoomed to 800%). Its completely unusable in object mode. The fact that the primitive shapes work is good, but the ellipses can be a bit unreliable in their shape. I've been trying to skin some detailed Flex components, but just can't work like this, so its been very frustrating.
I have really no idea where to start. I tried to re-install from the CS4 Web Premium DVDs, but as luck would have it, my SuperDrive has packed up and I have to wait for a week at the Apple Store before dropping it in to get fixed, so can't do that for now.
Cheers,
raff

CS6 - Advanced Drawing Mode - Problem

Hello Everyone'
I just got a new Dell XPS 8500 with a solid state drive and 16 gigs of RAM but..
I've encounted an issue.. When using 'Advanced Drawing Mode' which was the default setting, the edit tools such as 'Free Transform' turns my canvas white so I can't see the image nor the edit tool's guides. When I hit enter or exist the edit tool the image re-appears. Everything else including the rotate canvas and animated zoom works fine.
If I change my Drawing Mode from Advanced to Normal under Performance and Advanced Settings the problme is fixed. But, I figured with the new computer I just bought it should be able to handle photoshop at its highest settings.
Does anybody have any tips for this??
Thanks!
-Joshua
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Video Card Renderer: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
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Your new computer is plenty powerful, but the software on it is 6 months old.
Visit the AMD web site and seek an updated display driver to match your hardware and OS. Download and install that (I think the current version is still Catalyst 12.6) and you'll very likely have all the Advanced facilities in working order.
-Noel

Dashed Line in Drawing Mode?

Is there a way to create a dashed line in the AppleWorks drawing mode?

Roger Wilmut1 wrote:
Double-click the line drawing tool. Now, at the bottom of the toolbar, select the line box (just above the big 'T'. Now select the black-and-white pattern palette (the second one down). Choose a suitable pattern - I suggest starting with the third down in the first column.
Thanks. That did it. I didn't know about the "line formatting" button (or the other two formatting buttons, for that matter). I knew about the pattern palette, but thought it only applied to area fills. I also discovered that I could apply a dashed attribute to an existing line by clicking on the "line formatting" button, selecting a line, and then using the pattern palette.
Maybe it's always been this way, but I find that I now always have one of the three lower-left "formatting buttons" selected. Is there a way to arrange for all three to be deselected, or shouldn't I worry about it?

Show movement in area from 30m video, smart objects - stack mode - range - 90k frames

Hey,
So I have a real challenge and need help figuring out the logistics of how to get it to work sensibly.
I'm trying to visually show the movement through a space (which will later be generated into a 3d form etc..)
To do this I think the best way would be to use photoshops smart objects - Stack modes - "Range"
A final image to show movement through the area.
Lighter where people walk more often and darker where people walk less often
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photosho...44D6937Ca.html
Range basically shows everything that has moved between the layers.
If you import a video frames into layers in photoshop, make them a smart object and apply the range stack mode it shows peoples movement and where they walk.
So thats what I'm going to do unless there is a better way to do this in something like after effects or premiere pro that I don't know about?
- I've done the photoshop way before and it worked very well - but on a very small scale.
I have a 30 minute video recording (considering longer but not sure if its viable), it was shot on a tripod and seems ok but can always do it again differently if needed!
The video was shot at 1920 x 1080 50fps which with 30 minutes (1800 seconds) makes 90,000 frames total for the video.
The problem
I need the info from ALL the frames - any less and the movement is too 'choppy' and isn't very useful.
So how can I make use of 90,000 frames/layers in a smart object for the range stack mode?!
I heard photoshop has a layer limit of 8k.
I have access to 6 high spec brand new mac pros (not 100% sure of the spec).
I'm thinking the solution would be use scripts and break it down into manageable chunks then flatten then merge them together.
Possible Solutions
1. Merging frames from each second or few seconds and then blending - not sure what blend mode I would use and also not sure if it would affect results
2. chop the image down into sections, process each section, flatten and merge together. for example split it into 4 quarters. - Don't think this will help, its more the limits in layers than anything else
3. Find an alternative method to deliver the image such as after effects.
on a side note I know I could have done a long exposure, done many before, but they don't really show movement, they simply blend the frames. The downside of long exposures for this exercise is that things could cancel each other out, for example; a man with a white top on walks past then a man with a black top walks past, these would cancel each other out to some degree.
The Range smart stack mode is brilliant because it directly shows movement and people don't cancel others out.
Help
Where can you help?
So basically if this is the correct way to do this then can anyone help with this and suggest any ways of breaking it down that wouldn't affect the final result?
Someone that knows more of how range stack mode works.
Correct me if I'm wrong with any of this and please let me know if you can help at all
Thanks!
Luke.
Context
For context the final thing has to be something that doesn't change in time, i.e. not a video but an image or model. This image will then be skewed a bit so its a plan view. It will then be used for another script in a 3d package like rhino which will create a number of points in space, the x and y axis being the location in plan view and the Z axis being the value of the pixel. I will then generate a solid form from the points and then smooth it out a lot so I should end up with a 3d wave model directly generated from the movement of people through the site. I will then architecturally design the form into spaces etc... This will form the surface of my final project
Heres an example of the first 500 frames (500 frames limit on video frames to layers import)
The footage isnt the best as I moved the camera slightly and the angle isnt amazing - ideally I want a plan view but will skew the final image to do this.

But I have a concern that if I break it down to 300 images (6 seconds of footage) then stack then flatten the stack until its dont the whole 30 mins then use these flattened ones to create a new stack it would affect results as it will then be working with images like the above.
That should be easy enough to test (if maybe not exactly proof) – for Range it seems to make no difference, for Variance it seems to do.
Also why use 16 bit image mode?
To reduce the accumulated effect of the necessary rounding of pixel values.

AW won't let me format in drawing mode. Why not?

So the Appleworks program on both my desktop and laptop computers is not working right suddenly. In the Draw mode it will not let me format the document. When you open up the format drop down menu and selcet document all the spaces are are blank--there are no margins, number of pages down/across, nothing. When you go to fill in one of these spaces with a number, you get a message that says "invalid number." My computer seems to be running slow. Do I have a bug?

My computer seems to be running slow. Do I have a bug?
If you're talking about AppleWorks running slow, then you have likely been hit by the Recent Items bug.
Sidekick, mentioned in Peggy's post will maintain a healthy Recent Items folder, but you can also clean it up yourself.
Go to Mac HD > username > Documents > AppleWorks User Data > Starting Points > Recent Items
Remove all or most of the items in this folder. You should notice a speed up the next time you launch AppleWorks.
The items in the Recent Items folder are aliases to every file you've Saved from AppleWorks. Removing them has no effect on the original files.
Regards,
Barry

Where do you set drawing mode in preferences? Can't find anywhere

I read Chris' response to the issue of the screen going dark when using tools. He said to set the drawing mode to basic in preferences. I can't find an option anywhere in preferences to do this. Where do I go to accomplish this?

Preferences -> Performance -> GPU section, click the Advanced button.
But you're still better off updating the video card driver from the GPU maker's website to work around the Win8 GPU bug.

What is wireframe drawing mode?

The "Acrobat SDK Overview" states that "getting and setting wireframe drawing mode ... can be done using a plug-in". What is a wireframe drawing mode? What kind of applications would need a wireframe drawing mode? - john

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Object Drawing

Hello, I am new and learning Flash, On my main tool bar on
the left side the "Object Drawing" toggle button
disappeared. I know "J" is the shortcut, but I
would like to get the button back. Is it something I did? Can
anyone help me? I would appreciate any help.

Is this true when one of the drawing tools are selected?
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> Hello, I am new and learning Flash, On my main tool bar
on the left side
> the
> 'Object Drawing' toggle button disappeared. I know 'J'
is the shortcut,
> but I
> would like to get the button back. Is it something I
did? Can anyone
> help me?
> I would appreciate any help.
>

Can't get pencil tool into merge drawing mode

I have downloaded the trial version of Adobe Executive Suite CS5. In the Flash Professional CS5 program I am trying to do a drawing with the pencil tool. In the old version of Flash that I have (4.0) if I draw two lines that overlap, I can delete the line past the point where they cross. In this version I can't do that. It treats each line I draw as a separate item and won't combine them. I notice the properties panel says I am in Object mode which would be the reason. However I can't get it to go to merge mode, which is supposed to be the default.
Is this because it's the trial version and not all features work in that version? Or could there be some other reason?
Thanks for any help anyone can offer. My email address is [email protected] and I can be phoned at 541 782-5904 (Oregon).
Ron Coleman

Thank you. I tried what you said and the button simply didn't respond. However I was using the line tool or the pencil tool when I did this. I later tried using the rectangle tool and then it worked. Once I got it switched back it stayed that way. I appreciate your emailing me, it's so hard to get answers to problems with Adobe. I had the old Flash program by Macromedia and I honestly believe it is easier to use than the new one. But maybe that won't be so once I've spent more time with it.
Thanks again.
Ron Coleman

AIR iOS Video Object draw

Hi,
Maybe this is a stupid question.
I'm having some trouble tryng to draw a Video Object into a BitmapData in AIR (iOS), I always though that the security error exceptions were never applied to AIR.
I have a .flv inside a folder in the app, when I try to draw the video I get the classic Exception fault: SecurityError: Error #2123: Security sandbox violation: BitmapData.draw.
Any thoughts?
Luis

Okay, I've done more research, so I'll answer my own question.
Yes, it's definitely possible to play video from a server on iOS.
This page contains code that works:
http://www.overdigital.com/2012/01/14/720p-video-on-ipad-and-android-tablets-with-adobe-ai r/
That is, it works properly with the author's video, but not with mine.
At first I thought that it wasn't working at all with my video, but then I happened to change the iPad's orientation, and the video appeared.
This problem has also been noted here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5712904#5712904
It's interesting that the example video for the above article doesn't do this....
Could it be that I'm not encoding the video correctly?
I'm using the Adobe Media Encoder to encode the video.
The preset I'm using is:
Apple TV, iPad, iPhone 4 and newer - 720p 23.976
I'm choosing this based on the name of the file used by the above working example, which is "Hillman_720p23.976_2400kbps.mp4"
It seems to me that this would obviously be correct. I have a feeling that there's something really simple that I'm missing. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Douglas

Text Object Save Mode

Im exploring the text object in SAP tcode SE75 i would like to know what are the meanings of the save mode types where there is dialog/update/not in text file. Also what are meaning of the Interfaces in the text object? Your answers are appreciated.
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Edited by: Thomas Zloch on Jan 4, 2011 2:16 PM

The save mode of a text module (dialog, update) is defined via the table TTXOB with the text object. In certain cases it makes sense to save the text immediately (for example, in batch programs) instead of in the update task.
' ' Save mode according to text object
'X' Save text module immediately

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