Pointer Layering

OK, this one's probably a bug. I noticed that Captivate will
layer objects according to their relative position in the timeline.
However, every movie I create has a couple frames where the mouse
pointer appears behind a highlight box, eventhough in the .cp file,
the pointer is above the box and at the top of the timeline. I've
tried deleting the box and adding a new one, but the frame will
continue to show the pointer behind the box. It's only on a couple
frames of each presentation, but this really makes me feel it
downgrades the quality of my demos!

Hi BernieMaxx
I've had this happen as well. This may be voodoo, but it
seems to work for me. So give it a go and maybe it will work for
you too!
On the errant slides where the pointer is being covered up:
1. Click the mouse pointer object in the timeline and drag it
to the bottom of the stack
2. Repeat the process for all affected slides
3. Save and close the movie
4. Reopen the movie, revisit each of the slides and drag the
mouse pointer back to the top of the stack
Now save and preview or publish. See if the problem is
corrected. With any luck and if my trick does what I believe it
does, you should be set!
Cheers... Rick

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Hello! I have a question about Oracle Map Builder.
There are three layers in basemap: the first - a polyline, the second - a point, and the third - a polygon with a solid color (top). Labels are included to the first two signatures. While viewing the map shows a third (polygon) layer, and the signature of the first two.
Question: Is there a possibility to remove the appearance of signatures of the lower layers (disabling signatures by minimum scale for display is not suitable, as they are used outside of polygon layer), and how to do it?
Thank you!

I'm not sure I understand the question. Here's is my assumption of what the question is.
You have three layers in a basemap : a polyline, a point, and a polygon in that order. That is polyline rendered first, points on top of it, and then the color-filled polygon layer on top of those two.
The part I don't understand is what you mean by signatures of the polyline and point layers.
Anyway, if the solid color-filled polygon layer is rendered last (i.e. on top) then the other two layers should not be visible at all unless their extent (the area they cover) differs from the extent for the polygon layer or the polygon layer does not completely cover the map extent or it's not a solid color fill but one with some transparency setting.
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The above says render the states_density layer while zoomed out to the full extent and up until the user zooms in to a 1:250,000,000 scale. When zoomed in further do not render/display the states population density layer. Display the county population density instead. Always display the highways. And start to display cities when the map in zoomed to 1:1,000,000 and up until 1:1,000 scale.
If you want to set the labeling scale ranges on a per layer (theme) basis then set it using the Other Properties panel in Map Builder. For the Cities layer above the styling rule with label scale ranges set is:
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In Flash CS4, how do you select multiple anchor points across separate layers?

I am talking about anchor points on a line, not a keyframe. They are also called "handles". I can select the anchor points as "white" quickly, but I can't get them to be "solid"without doing it layer by layer, which is tedious. What I want is way to select lines that are in different layers and get the points I selected in a way similar to the regular selection tool or free transform tool. I have been trying to do this all day and I can't find a good way to do this, and I would appreciate any help.
Here is an image of what I'm trying to do, but more easily. The lines are on separate layers, but when I select them with the subselection tool I have to go layer by layer selecting the points. I'm trying to look for a very quick way of doing it. When I do select all with the subselection tool on, the anchor points are only "white" and not "solid" as shown below.

Now you're post was a while ago and I still need a solution, but I have to say this. I didn't mean to be rude to you; it’s just that it doesn’t answer my question I specified in the original post. I know your intentions are good, but it frustrates me when someone doesn’t fully read a post and offers a solution, it sometimes gives a false impression that the problem is taken care of. Example of being "helpful": http://forums.adobe.com/message/2540277 Yes I know there is a “Yes, my question has been answered,” but you know they don’t always select it, and other people know that as well. But you are right; I should probably act a little bit nicer and reiterate what I’ve already said before, I’ll probably get more help from it. It just seems to be a simple feature that seems to be needed to be in the program. I didn't mean it takes forever to move, it takes forever to select multiple anchor points across, let's say 10 layers, so that's 10 different lines on 10 layers. You have to select each layer and then select the anchor points. If there is an away to select anchor points across all layers in one go please tell me. Maybe I was wrong, but I could’ve sworn I’ve seen ideas that were posted on here get taken into Adobe as a suggestion, but yes I submitted it as a suggestion to Adobe, but I wanted to confirm that there was no way of doing it first since it seems kind unbelievable because the regular selection tool works across multiple layers.

Mouse pointer laggy over layers panel

The mouse pointer is lagging when hovering over the layers panel. This is seriously unnerving.
Anyone else experiencing this?

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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375816?tstart=0
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FAQ: Why isn't the anchor point centered in shape layers?

[UPDATE: In After Effects CC (12.1) and later, you can center the anchor point within the visible content of a layer. ]
Short answer
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Long answer
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THANK YOU SO MUCH :-)
I didn't knew this shortcut as I didn't have to use it anyway.
but it's weird because all the other tools like even the circular gradient tool have their point visible.
Anyway, I guess you can press H with any tools.
Again, thank you, I should have ask it before. ;-)

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Welcome to the boards
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please se the attached picture will help to explain what im doing and what I need..
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well, I'm completely newbie on Illustrator. I only have to use it to create level on pdf images to work with it in Photoshop.
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Ay the first opening I had more than one error
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In general system
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I'll keep testing and post back.
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I have included a couple of screenshots of me rotating the hair opposite ways so you can see.
- imgur: the simple image sharer
- imgur: the simple image sharer
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