[OT] EuroTAAC is ON

Hi everyone.
Just a quick note to confirm that EuroTAAC is definitely on
this year. We've
reached our break even point, so no more worries about
pulling out.
We'll be updating the web site over the next few days, as we
know that the
conference information is unclear at the moment. Watch this
space for some
more news.
Steve
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The EuroTAAC eLearning conference web site has now been
updated. We have
more confirmed speakers, clearer, more complete information
about the 3-day
post-conference classes, and up-to-date travel and hotel
information.
Check it out today - www.eurotaac.com
Steve
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OT: EuroTAAC is getting closer!

Just a quick note to remind you all that EuroTAAC is in
Denmark this year,
and that things are taking shape at last.
We have posted an updated schedule (still subject to
revision).
Prospective attendees will no doubt be concerned that we may
be forced to
cancel the conference, as happened last year. Response so far
has been very
positive as we reach out to attendees outside of the
Authorware community.
This means that we need only a few more attendees signed up
by the start of
next month in order to be able to guarantee the conference
will NOT be
cancelled.
So if you want to be in no doubt about the future of
EuroTAAC, please be
sure to make your conference booking as soon as possible.
Oh - and the good news is we have secured very generous
sponsorship from
Adobe, and other significant sponsors have approached us.
Check out www.eurotaac.com today and see what is in store for
your eLearning
needs.
Steve
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The EuroTAAC eLearning conference web site has now been
updated. We have
more confirmed speakers, clearer, more complete information
about the 3-day
post-conference classes, and up-to-date travel and hotel
information.
Check it out today - www.eurotaac.com
Steve
EuroTAAC eLearning 2007
http://www.eurotaac.com
Adobe Community Expert: Authorware, Flash Mobile and Devices
My blog -
http://stevehoward.blogspot.com/
Authorware tips -
http://www.tomorrows-key.com

Ann: Poll for classes at EuroTAAC eLearning 2007

We have had quite a few offers of top quality training from
world class
instructors for EuroTAAC eLearning 2007 already. To make sure
we are
providing exactly what potential attendees want and need, we
have set up
a poll to canvass opinion on what YOU want to see being
taught at
EuroTAAC in 2007.
http://www.eurotaac.com/classes.asp
Please take a few minutes to vote for the class you would
like to see.
If there is something else you would prefer, please send an e
mail to
register at eurotaac dot com and we will try our best to
accommodate it.
Use your vote wisely as you will only be able to vote for one
class!
Thanks
Mark
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Announcement: EuroTAAC is dead. Long Live EeLS!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me enormous pleasure to be
able to
(pre)announce the European eLearning Summit, to be held at
Nottingham
University, England, 19-21 August, 2008.
Shortly we will begin publicizing the web site and opening
registration, but
for now I wanted to let you all know that we are working on
this project,
and you are all invited!
Highlights include:-
- The conference will be run in association with the
eLearning Guild
- eLearning Guild members will receive a 20% ticket discount
on the
conference ticket price
- Earlybird ticket discount
- For the first 100 tickets purchased, you can have BUY ONE,
GET ONE FREE -
that's right! You buy a ticket, you get a second free!
- Major sponsor, Adobe inc.
- We are planning an expo, so if you or your company wants a
chance to show
your wares to the eLearning Industry, you need to be at EeLS.
- We have the option to run pre- and/or post-conference
training. If you
want some, or want to teach, let us know!
If you are interested in *presenting*, *exhibiting* or
*teaching* at the
European eLearning Summit, please email me and we can
discuss.
Steve
Adobe Community Expert: eLearning, Mobile and Devices
My blog -
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New features for InterConnect interoperability with the rest of the Oracle Integration and SOA stack are being added to the upcoming 10.1.2 Phase 2 release. InterConnect provides application and data integration for a hub and spoke model where the hub is in the Oracle database. BPEL provides comprehensive orchestration, workflow and data/app integration on the mid-tier. In 10.1.3, Oracle SOA will expand with new mid-tier based ESB functionality such as standalone adapters, configurable routing service and service relationship view. Hope this helps.
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Flash in AW sound plays but no picture

I've googled for this but haven't found any definitive
answer.
I have a subroutine which plays flash files through the flash
xtra. It works fine but for the 3 files in which there has been an
mp3 embedded (to time the animation to the sound) - the sound plays
fine but i get one line of the picture only near the bottom and it
doesn't play the anim.
I have tried the same procedure with a fresh file - just
having the flash xtra and loading the anim into it directly with
"browse..." but with the same result. The anims play fine from the
media folder tey are located in, playing in Firefox or IE.
Any suggestions? Using Flash MX, AW 6.5 and Mp3s.
Thanks in advance
Helen

> Ahh steve yes you musn't have seen my post on the web or
after i updated
> it -
> thought to mention it after posting...
Once it goes out on NNTP there's no updating it .... I'll
only ever see your
original post. That web interface is too slow for my sanity!
>
> "I have tried the same procedure with a fresh file -
just having the flash
> xtra and loading the anim into it directly with
"browse..." but with the
> same
> result. The anims play fine from the media folder tey
are located in,
> playing
> in Firefox or IE."
When you view the Flash file as standalone ... outside a
browser, then
right-click and Show All, what do you see?
Wild guess ... maybe you have something off at the top of the
Flash movie
that's pushing it down the screen???
Steve\\
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Memory Full in String

Hi guys,
I'm loading some data from a database into a string. No
problems until yesterday, when it seems to stop at a certain point.
There IS more data in the DB than is being displayed, it just gets
so far and stops.
The size of the DB has been increasing all week as students
type more stuff in.
I suspect that the authorware string can only store a limited
number of charactors read from the DB? If thats the case, is there
any way I can increase this amount?
TIA

> I suspect that the authorware string can only store a
limited number of
> charactors read from the DB? If thats the case, is there
any way I can
> increase this amount?
No, but you can decrease the amount of data returned by
modifying your
database query ... return first 50 records for instance ...
If you are not already doing so, look at using stored queries
in the
database, that way you can control what goes on without
having to edit your
Authorware file.
Steve
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Can you change where an icon will appear on the stage?

I'm using A/ware 6. I'm using DISPLAYICON to make an icon
appear. Is it possible to change where the icon's content appears?
Is there a way of requesting an icon's content appear at a specific
X/Y location on the stage rather than where it is located in the
icon? Thanks

> I'm using A/ware 6. I'm using DISPLAYICON to make an
icon appear. Is it
> possible to change where the icon's content appears? Is
there a way of
> requesting an icon's content appear at a specific X/Y
location on the
> stage
> rather than where it is located in the icon? Thanks
>
Create 2 variables - ImageX and ImageY.
Open your Display icon, and set it's Positioning field to On
Screen.
Type ImageX in the X location. ImageY in the Y location.
You can now set the variables in your code, at any point
before you display
your icon. The icon will appear in the position specified by
your variables.
Steve
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Help for Nokia 7610 Supernova White themes

Hello!
First of all, i hope you understand, and i ask you my apologize about my english.
I have a nokia 7610 Supernova White, and i've made some downloads of some themes to change.
However, when i change the theme, the stand-by mode, when i want to see the time when the keyboard its locked, i press the red phone and i can see the time. Until here it's ok, but, the theme behind the clock it's always the Orbit theme.
Only when i change to a theme whith copyright of nokia, the theme behind the clock its the same of all screens... Once i've had a black screen, but i dont know what should i change to get it back.....
I hope you can help to change that thing, and of course, i hope you understand my dougbt....

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XPAAJ library export file attachment annotation problem

Hi,
I'm using XPAAJ library to export annotations contained in a PDF file to XFDF file. The files which have fileAttachmentAnnotations cannot be exported to XFDF and is giving the exception pasted below. Is there any known issue in XPAAJ library that it doesn't work with FileAttachmentsAnnotations?
The exception stack trace is given below
com.adobe.internal.pdf.cos.util.exceptions.PDFCosCastException: expected CosName
at com.adobe.internal.pdf.cos.CosObject.nameValue(Unknown Source)
at com.adobe.internal.pdf.cos.CosDictionary.getName(Unknown Source)
at com.adobe.internal.pdf.PDFEmbeddedFile.getMIMEType(Unknown Source)
at com.adobe.internal.xfdf.XFDFAnnotationFileAttachment.transformToXFDF(Unknown Source)
at com.adobe.internal.xfdf.PDF2XFDFAnnotationsReader.outputAnnotations(Unknown Source)
at com.adobe.internal.xfdf.PDF2XFDFAnnotationsReader.HandleAnnotations(Unknown Source)
at com.adobe.internal.xfdf.PDF2XFDFAnnotationsReader.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.transform(TransformerIdentityImpl.ja va:452)
at com.adobe.internal.pdf.cos.util.Utility.transformToXML(Unknown Source)
at com.adobe.internal.xfdf.XFDFObject.exportAnnotations(Unknown Source)
at com.adobe.pdf.impl.PDFDocumentImpl.exportAnnotations(Unknown Source)
Is there any other product (any adobe or other for that matters) i can use to accomplish the export annotation task. Note that I wouldn't like to use Acrobat SDK or Assembler as they have this ability.
Any suggestion would help a great deal.
Thanks
Ali

The answer to the first part is that GetIconContents will
return:
#type:#linkedIcon
However, I am pretty sure it is not possible to automatically
'select'
the library version in this way.
Mark
derekclayton wrote:
> I have a script that parses through an Authorware (7.02)
file, gathers
> information and exports appropriate media. This is done
on unpackaged files.
> Everything works great, unless the icon is actually a
library icon. After
> selecting the icon...
>
> ExportMedia( FileLocation^"_build\\", FALSE, FALSE )
>
> If the icon is linked to a library, it results in an
error dialog indicating
> that there was no media to export. How do I determine if
the icon is a linked
> library icon? And then select the library version? I can
find no function or
> variable, no reference within the help, and nothing
online.
>
> What am I missing? Your input will be greatly
appreciated.
>
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Tracking numbers within EntryText

Hi everyone,
I have a login procedure set up to test user's password
input. How to allow
the user to type any password but must have first 3
characters to be
Numeric? for example "123swordfish"
Thanks,
Omar

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>
> "Omar" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> Thanks Amy it worked great. Another question if you
don't mind. I
>> really couldn't figure it out...
>> What about the opposite, to have the last 3
characters to be numeric
>> "swordfish123"?
>
> If Charcount(Substr(EntryText, Charcount(EntryText)-2,
> Charcount(EntryText))*1) = 3
>
> ...
>
>
> Steve
>
>
> --
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>
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Playing local authorware files in IE 7

I cannot play published Authorware files in the Internet
Explorer 7 from my local computer. I get error messages "invalid
map files etc". The published files play correctly in a local
Mozilla browser and also if I upload them on a server and play them
online with Internet Explorer 7. Is there a local setting, which
solves the problem? Normally I like to test the files on my
computer before uploading all the published files.
Thanks
Ruth

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>I cannot play published Authorware files in the Internet
Explorer 7 from my
> local computer. I get error messages "invalid map files
etc". The
> published
> files play correctly in a local Mozilla browser and also
if I upload them
> on a
> server and play them online with Internet Explorer 7. Is
there a local
> setting,
> which solves the problem? Normally I like to test the
files on my computer
> before uploading all the published files.
There is no local setting, as such. What you must do is
reference the aam
file as a literal folder path - File://c:/work/test.aam
(that's not quite
right, the File:// should be a little different), instead of
the default
relative reference that is used by Authorware.
Alternatively, I think you can still test by clicking on the
aam file
instead of the htm ...
Steve
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Can I Preload External MPGs?

I have a lengthy piece that uses a lot of external MPGs in
addition to embedded content. It's fine on my development machine,
but I just viewed it with the client on their plant network and the
movies took
forever to load. I'd put a "Loading" animated GIF in-between
them, but it didn't animate and, even if it had, the piece really
drags through those loads.
Is it possible to pre-load the next MPG while one is playing?
If so, how? Also, is there some trick to getting an animated
"Loading" graphic to play while the next movie is loading?
Thanks for any advice...

> Thanks for the good advice, as usual. By compressing to
WMV I reduced the
> size
> by about 87%, but the video shows black for about 3
seconds before the
> actual
> video content plays. However, the WMV file itself has
picture from frame
> 1. Is
> this something I have to live with? I've tested it in
both the web player
> and
> local, AND with a6wmp32.xmo in the same directory for
both. I'm using AW
> 6.5.
WMV files are played in the movie icon via the Windows Media
Player ActiveX
control. On some machines there is an unavoidable delay while
the AX control
initialises as it loads up the movie for playing. It has been
a source of
frustration for me for years!
You can try hiding it off screen, then use a zero-second
motion icon to move
it back on screen as the movie starts to play. On many
machines this appears
to happen cleanly, but on others you will see a momentary
black flash as the
movie begins to play. Seems to be a hardware thing that's not
controllable
by us. You may find the momentary black flash more preferable
though. You
could, for instance, put up a black box with "Please Wait,
Loading". The
text disappears just as you move the video back on screen.
>
> BTW, I also liked --- and totally agree with --- your
answer to "Funny
> Videos". I can't believe the hacker types are hitting
forums now! Too bad
> they
> can't find something productive to do...
>
:-) If our data and time were not so important, I would care
less, but all
too often these things are malicious :-(
Steve
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Best file types to use

I am currently building a presentation file for a company.
They have a wide range of spec PCs that they would view the
presentation on and I want to ensure that they can view it smoothly
even if they are viewing it on a PC that is years and years old
with very little RAM and graphics power.
So, there must be a prefered file type that people tend to
save in whether it be .JPG , .BMP etc for images or .AVI , .MPEG
etc for video. Is there a better file type to be using to ensure
the presentation works well on every (well almost) computer?
Also are there any image properties that I should avoid, such
as alpha masking?
Finally Flash. What is the best way to save and create a
Flash file that can be viewed best on any PC?
Publishing. I have had problems with this before. Should
files be imported into the presentation or left external? Any tips
as for this?
Thanks in advance if anyone can help.

>I am currently building a presentation file for a
company. They have a
>wide
> range of spec PCs that they would view the presentation
on and I want to
> ensure
> that they can view it smoothly even if they are viewing
it on a PC that is
> years and years old with very little RAM and graphics
power.
> So, there must be a prefered file type that people tend
to save in whether
> it
> be .JPG , .BMP etc for images or .AVI , .MPEG etc for
video. Is there a
> better
> file type to be using to ensure the presentation works
well on every (well
> almost) computer?
> Also are there any image properties that I should avoid,
such as alpha
> masking?
> Finally Flash. What is the best way to save and create a
Flash file that
> can
> be viewed best on any PC?
>
> Publishing. I have had problems with this before. Should
files be
> imported
> into the presentation or left external? Any tips as for
this?
Are you asking only about Flash or about Authorware too?
I've been building Authorware courses for almost 10 years. In
all that time,
jpg and bmp have been fine, and that's going back to 133MHz
Win 95 laptops
with 16 Mb RAM and 1 Mb graphic cards. If you think you are
delivering to
such ancient, steam-driven machines then avoid png and avoid
alpha
transparency, avoid Flash in Authorware.
Otherwise, if your oldest machine is, say. Pentium 600 MHz,
64 Mb RAM, 8Mb
graphics running Win 98, you should be fine with png graphics
and simple
Flash animations, but probably best to avoid both on screen
at the same
time.
Otherwise, give us a better idea of what you think your
oldest, worst
machines will be.
Oh - note that Authorware 7 content isn't even recommended
for Win 95 -
http://www.adobe.com/products/authorware/productinfo/systemreqs/
Steve
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Non-Full Screen Presentation with Keynote?

Does anyone know if it's possible to run a Keynote presentation not in full screen mode?
I have a couple of kiosk displays that I'd like to display Keynote presentations along side some data feeds and real-time information from other apps. Do you know if you can display a presentation say in a single window? (and not the full screen?) I'm guessing not, but I figured I'd ask.
Thaks for the help!
Mike

>I have just produced a project in authorware
incorporating flash animation
>and
> video clips. I made the mistake of when creating this,
of setting the
> presentation window size at 800 x 600 pixels.
Unfortunately this does not
> play
> full screen on most machines that it will be viewed on.
The users are not
> able
> to adjust the resolution of their monitors to allow this
play otherwise.
> I have tried changing the presentation properties to
full screen and
> readjusting all my text, etc to fit, but when this now
plays it is nearly
> full
> screen but my project is showing in the top left side of
the window?!
> I have read that you can put a script in to resize the
window, but i
> cannot
> get this to work unless the script info i have is
incorrect.
> Please can anyone help me with this problem. Much
appreciated! Nina
>
1, Uncheck that silly Full Screen option. It does not do what
the name
suggests, and never has done.
2, Use center on Screen instead
3, Authorware cannot and will not rescale to fit your users'
screen
settings. If you want that kind of setting you should use
something other
than Authorware. Flash or Director are good choices for that.
If you still want to resize the window, then use the function
ResizeWindow,
but you will find that your content does not rescale, so you
will be back to
your content sitting top-left of the screen.
Finally, you can use the old workaround of utilizing Cover
u32 to cover the
are of the screen not used by your application. It will set
the rest of the
desktop to black, essentially framing your application. Check
your
Authorware CD for Cover.u32, where you will find an example
file too.
Steve
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AWP and "Mark Of The Web"

I'm trying to add the "mark of the web" to the pages that run
the web player and it causes the web player not to run for me. All
I get is an outline box where the player should be. If I take that
code out, it works as normal. Any ideas?

> I'm trying to add the "mark of the web" to the pages
that run the web
> player
> and it causes the web player not to run for me. All I
get is an outline
> box
> where the player should be. If I take that code out, it
works as normal.
> Any
> ideas?
>
I never found that useful for Authorware content.
What problem are you trying to fix by using this?
Steve
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