Probably a Simple Question
I was wondering if there was anyway that I could use garageband as a sort of a synthesizer for my guitar, but not just to record it but to have the sound play in realtime along with the rest of my band, so we can play together. I don't have an interface for all my instruments yet so I can only plug in one instrument at a time. Sorry for the poor english, I'm just not sure on how to ask the question. (I don't know the lingo!)
Although more RAM is always a plus realtime FX are more dependent on cpu cycles. If your going to use your computer for this task you may want to make a account that is dedicated to GB or whatever you plan on using. Shut off as many background items as possible like bluetooth, airport, browsers, mail and whatever else your not using.
I personally don't use my Macs for effects I have a good collection of Guitars, amps and effect pedals, boards and a M-audio blackbox. I have used Amplitube before and was very impressed with it but I'm sure there are cheeper alternatives. Play with GB and see if you can get it to work for you first before investing any money in something else.
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Probably incredibly simple question, so sorry. I have just changed e-mail after many many years and I want to e-mail everyone in my mac mail client with the new e-mail address at the same time.
If you are using Address Book, open it, create a new Group, select all you contacts by click the top one while holding down the shift key and then select the last one. Drag the contacts to the group, then send an e-mail to the group.
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Probably a simple question for ya...
Ok, so I will start this by admitting I know almost nothing about AS3 and very VERY little about programming as a whole.
I'll post my code below and you'll probably think I'm an idiot for not knowing what's wrong with it, but that's ok, lol. I keep getting "1120: Access of undefined property..." with a whole bunch of different problems, all involving the movement of a character that I'm trying to create for a game I'm attempting to make. If you can please tell me what I'm doing wrong and if possibly explain it as if I know nothing about programming, it would be very much appriciated. I've been working on this for a while now and am not getting anywhere, and I just know the answer is something very simple I'm missing. Once again thank you very much in advance for an answer,
package
import flash.display.MovieClip;
public class Shooter extends flash.display.MovieClip
public var WalkingSpeed;
public function onLoad()
WalkingSpeed = 5;
public function onEnterFrame ()
if(Key.isDown(68))
_x = _x + WalkingSpeed;
if (Key.isDown(65))
_x = _x - WalkingSpeed;
if(Key.isDown(87))
_y = _y - WalkingSpeed;
if(Key.isDown(83))
_y = _y + WalkingSpeed;
Also a quick note is it worked great in AS2 with a few differences but I was told to use AS3 and when I changed it over and rewrote a few things it no longer works, thank you once again.Whenever you get errors, you help others to help you by including the complete error messages in your posting. I cannot say for sure that the following line is a problem, but you can try changing it to see if an error goes away...
public class Shooter extends flash.display.MovieClip
change to
public class Shooter extends MovieClip
Then you will need to make some changes to update the code to be relevant to AS3. The Key class does not exist in AS3, so all of your Key.isDown() code won't work.
Also, _x and _y are x and y in AS3
You're best bet will probably be to search Google using terms like "AS3 Keyboard move tutorial" to get the info you need to do what you want in AS3 -
Probably a simple question about using a flash header for navigation
What would be the best way to go about loading this flash
navigation?
http://www.marcos-ac.com/wip/
Basically my issue is that I don't want the animation to run
through each time. On the homepage, I want it to run through it's
whole animation, but after that, I just want everything to be up
there... not flying in and fading in on each of the pages in the
site.
My ideas:
1. Some sort of actionscript command that says "if you are on
a page named index.htm then play the entire movie, otherwise, goto
and play frame 100 (the last frame).
2. Use a shell movie and do a loadMovie that they jumps to a
frame. Insert the shell movie on the subpages in the site. I tried
this an it didn't work. And I've read that it's unreliable because
the label may not exist yet when the movie is called or something.
Must be cached.
3. Build 2 movies... one with all the intro animation frames
chopped off. I tried this and didn't like it as the movie is
already pretty huge and to load two movies that are large is
annoying to users. This is the method I am currently using.
Thanks for the help!The quick and easy way - not necessarily the most elegant way
- to solve the problem is to use html frames. Put the nav in a
header frame and have contents display in a second frame
underneath. Will require you add a target="contentframe' (or
whatever you name the content frame) parameter into each link in
the nav flash, but other than that you won't need to make major
changes.
The nav plays once and just sits there until they reload the
entire page the next time they visit. No actionscript, tests,
preloading, etc required. -
Probably a simple question. Rollover activating a MC
Its been awhile and i am trying to get back into flash. But the change to AS3.0 has been a difficult one for me.
I am creating a nav bar for my vacation blog site.
The days are the buttons (1-22) ((which I am just attempting button #1 for now)).
Our trip was through 4 countries in Europe with multiple cities.
Here is what I would love to happen.
User mouse-over the day's and associated couple movie clips play (one is of Italy shrinking down, and the other is a mc of "rome" kind of flying in [both already made], mouse-out and they disapear.
Clicking on the day would actually change the URL to the correct page (the main function of the button )
Where I am at:
Have the Day 1 button made: day1_btn (has up/over/down/hit)
Have both movie clips made: italy_mc (and) rome_mc
Both have instances on stage: mc_italy (and) mc_rome (((Is this the correct naming convention)))
Only actionscript I have is the: stop();
**I remember in previous actionscripts there was behaviors for this kind of thing. I'm no expert but would like to start the long and painful road to becoming fluent in AS3.0
Thanks for any help!To make buttons work in AS3 (and many other things that involve ineteractions/events) you add event listeners and event handler function for those listeners. In your case you would be focusing on the MouseEvent class, which includes a variety of types (aka constants)... CLICK, ROLL_OVER, ROLL_OUT, MOUSE_OVER, etc..... look up the class in the help docs for the full set of constants.
Here's the basics for creating an event listener and handler set...
So you created a button symbol. Since it is a button, it is already a self animating object that will react to mouse interactions, but only visually at this stage. The first thing you need to do to make it useful code-wise is to assign it a unique instance name. So you drag a copy of it out to the stage from the library, and while it's still selected, you enter that unique instance name for it in the Properties panel... let's say you name it "btn1"
For now we'll just say you want to be able to roll over it to do something. In the timeline that holds that button, in a separate actions layer that you create, in a frame numbered the same as where that button exists, you would add the event listener:
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, btn1Over);
Descriptively, that line of code contains the following:
buttonInstanceName . displayObjectMethod (eventClass . eventType, eventHandlerFunction);
The name of the unique function for processing the clicking of that button was already defined at the end of the event listener assignment, so now you just have to write that function out:
function btn1Over(evt:MouseEvent):void {
// make your mc's visible.
Here's some of what's involved there:
evt:MouseEvent - the event listeners throws an argument automatically which the function must be set up to receive. In this case I have given that argument a variable name of evt, though I could have chosen anything.
:void - this defines the class of the value that the function will return. In this case, the function does not return anything, so "void" is used. If it did return a value, you would see a line containing "return xyz"; in the function (where xyz is not literal, it simply represents the variable or value being returned) -
New Mac User - probably a simple question.
I am a new mac user. I bought two macs to basically ichat my new daughter with her grandparents. This is the setup
1. Macbook 2.0 / 2 gig ram with built in isight. Ethernet DSL connection 6 mps down/768 up.
2. Mac Mini G4 / 1 gig ram with external isight. Ethernet DSL connections 2 mps down/384k up.
The quality just is very poor on the mac mini side. They can barely make out my daughter. The quality is acceptable on the macbook side. I have read the forum and tried the things I could understand. Under the connection doctor, the macbook side is getting 30fps and the mini is getting only 15fps.
Besides upgrading the mini to a intel based higher processor, is there anything we can do to get better video quality?
I tried this new software SIGHTSPEED and the video quality is amazing on both ends.Hi Amit,
The quicktime setting should not be on Automatic or the very top setting of Intranet/LAN as they both have problems with iChat.
Your download speed means you should use the 1.5meg/T1/Intranet/Lan setting.
Don't forget the restart of iChat if you have to change the setting.
If his download is 1.5 meg to 3 meg (half yours) he should also use the 1.5meg/T1 setting.
Is there any chance he is doing a download at the same time or other internet use ?
Are there other computers at his end that are on line ?
There is a vauge chance that the modem at one end can not handle the current speeds you are supposed to get from the ISP. However this is likely to show up in Speed tests when it is a lot lower than what you (both) are paying for.
Test site http://www.bplspeedtest.com/broadband-speed-test.php use the button with the red and green arrows.
12:12 AM Monday; August 14, 2006 -
Probably a simple question : I'd like to use Icloud on my Mac (10.6.8). Apparently I need an OS version of 10.7 or higher. I tried Lion 10.8 but cannot install this on my Mac. What should/can I do ?
Thanks a lot !Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac11,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i3
Processor Speed: 3.2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 5.86 GT/s
Boot ROM Version: IM112.0057.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.64f5
Serial Number (system): W80380E6HAD
Hardware UUID: F2F7F222-0FE4-56BB-8E55-6C7A3E290E13
Sorry, not so clever about these things but this is what I have. Would this be OK? -
Probably a simple SQL Query - Newbie
I want to select entries from a table that has 2 columns where the first column value is contained within the 2 column....Does that make sense?
The first is a varchar that contains a value for a customer. The second is a varchar that contains a a textual description of a problem the customer has. My problem is that I only want to select the entries in the table where the second column contains a description that includes the first column value.
eg. I want to select rows that have the following condition:
column1 has value of "customer1"
column2 has a value of "an error was reported by customer1 on service blah"
but not these
column1 has value of "customer1"
column2 has a value of "an error was reported by customer2 on service blah"
This is probably a simple question but I've spent time looking at how to do it and can't seem to manage...any help would be appreciated....ThanksHi Barbara,
I've never used the CONTAINS operator before. I compared the use in this situation to the other methods and found the others to be FAR less resource intensive, despite working on unindexed columns, as I demonstrate below.
It would seem that CONTAINS is unsuited to this type of simple query. Can you shed any light on this, from the perspective of somebody who has used it before? Is this type of performance penalty normal? If so, it could seem that CONTAINS is fairly useless next to LIKE.
[email protected]> desc test;
Name Null? Type
COLUMN1 VARCHAR2(20)
COLUMN2 VARCHAR2(100)
[email protected]> select count(*) from test;
COUNT(*)
10000
Elapsed: 00:00:00.00
[email protected]> select * from test where instr(column2, column1) > 0;
10000 rows selected.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.18
Execution Plan
0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=ALL_ROWS (Cost=23 Card=8328 Bytes=532992)
1 0 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'TEST' (TABLE) (Cost=23 Card=8328 Bytes=532992)
Statistics
5 recursive calls
0 db block gets
821 consistent gets
0 physical reads
0 redo size
702263 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
7838 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
668 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
0 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
10000 rows processed
[email protected]> select * from test where column2 like '%'||column1||'%';
10000 rows selected.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.18
Execution Plan
0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=ALL_ROWS (Cost=23 Card=8328 Bytes=532992)
1 0 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'TEST' (TABLE) (Cost=23 Card=8328 Bytes=532992)
Statistics
5 recursive calls
0 db block gets
821 consistent gets
0 physical reads
0 redo size
702263 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
7838 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
668 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
0 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
10000 rows processed
[email protected]> create index testidx on test(column2) indextype is ctxsys.context;
Index created.
[email protected]> select * from test where contains(column2, column1) > 0;
10000 rows selected.
Elapsed: 00:00:56.80
Execution Plan
0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=ALL_ROWS (Cost=25008 Card=4 Bytes=284)
1 0 TABLE ACCESS (FULL) OF 'TEST' (TABLE) (Cost=25008 Card=4 Bytes=284)
Statistics
55201 recursive calls
0 db block gets
85857 consistent gets
0 physical reads
0 redo size
702263 bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
7838 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
668 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
204 sorts (memory)
0 sorts (disk)
10000 rows processedThanks in advance,
Anthony -
Simple question, how to get photos fading in and out
Sorry, don't use Flash much at all, I'm trying to do something that's probably very simple. This question has probably been answered before but I'm not even really sure what keywords to search for, I tried slideshow and a glut of irrelevant info came up.
I want to create a swf of 5 photos that fade into each other. For example, black background, first photo fades up from alpha 0 to alpha 100 in one second, stays on screen for 4 seconds, then fades back to alpha 0 while the next photo fades up, etc, then the 5th photo fades back into the 1st photo and it loops.
What's the best, easiest way to accomplish this with cs4?
Also, if the jpgs are 980 x650 pixels and approx. 70 kb apiece, will I need a preloader if I'm going to use the swf as a header to my site? If so, is there a simple, plug n play preloader I can use?
Thanks so much for the help, it can be so frustrating (and time consuming) trying to muddle my way through this myself.Hi
Check this video out, explains it really well and easy to follow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxBSWaGkdFk&feature=PlayList&p=743FE52951ACB46E&playnext=1& playnext_from=PL&index=85 -
I have a very simple question: how do I view where Lion has autosaved my current version to (without the convoluted route of using finder)? In days gone by i'd simply use the save as function to see where it was being saved.
It's actually even easier than using Save As to see the full path to the currently open document. Just do a "Secondary click" on the document title in its window's title bar.
Like you, I relied upon Save As my whole life to check a file's location and considered it a must-have capability. Turns out it's even faster to use the single-click method to reveal the full path to the open document. It displays the entire path to the current document starting from the level of your Mac, and works for files stored on drives as well as iCloud.
If you're not sure how to do a secondary click, go into System Preferences, select Trackpad, Point & Click to find the current preference for secondary click on your Mac. If you happen to have a mouse with more than one button, it's probably the right button. As a trackpad user, I check the box to "Click or tap with two fingers," so a simple two finger tap on the title of an open document reveals its full path. This feature actually has been around for a very long time.
Note that this is not the same thing as the Autosave and Versions menu, which is exposed using a little drop down triangle to the right of the title. There is no visual clue for the presence of this feature - you just have to know it's there, probably because this feature goes all the way back to pre-OS X days. -
Simple question about telnet and characters
Hi all,
We've installed for the first time a SUN machine. So i think it's for a SUN expert a very simple question.
Normally when i type a special character it will be dispayed like " � " [alt+132]
But when i use a telnet session and i type "alt+132" i get a "d" and not "�".
Does someone know where i must start to find out how this works ?
Thanks you very much.
ESPThis is probably related to the locale your server is in. I don't remember the default locale a box is installed in if you don't specify. I think its "C". I use the UTF-8 or en_US.ISO8859-1 locales at home. At work, usually C but sometimes applications may require UTF-8. BEA Weblogic required this for a project a while back. This is defined in /etc/init/tz.
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Reading Files (simple question)
I'm doing some homework (and no, I'm not just looking for a handout answer, I just need a simple question answered) and I was wondering about how to read a word and evaluate if the word is the same as another word. I want to do this from a .txt file using the Scanner. I know I have to read the file and use while(ifp.hasNext()) but how do I evaluate it word by word? If there's anything else you need or if I'm asking the wrong question, let me know.
Is there any other way to read through a file other than nextLine? I know there's probably a simpler answer, but the only way I could think of doing it is storing the next line as a String and trying to find the specified word in the string. Not only am I not sure how to do that, I imagine there's a better way. Should I be evaluating it a different way?
Edit: I was looking at the javadoc on the Scanner class and I saw the findInLine method. We definitely didn't use this in our class, but is that what I should use?
Edited by: Mikola7 on Nov 5, 2007 4:14 PM
Edited by: Mikola7 on Nov 5, 2007 4:16 PM -
Probably super simple...ACL/VLANs
I have a VLAN 6 that is dedicated to a Partner organization (they share our bandwidth and schedule conference rooms with our Exchange).
Question is how do I configure ACLs to direct ALL traffic to and from Partner, exception of accessing our Outlook Web Access and DNS servers in VLAN 1, and our websites in VLAN 2 ?
This is probably super simple but I keep ending up with traffic going where I don't want it to. Thanks so much...
(And if anything else seems wacky about this setup, blame the last IT guy)What is the platform you are using??? ASA, router??
Thanks,
Varun Rao
Security Team,
Cisco TAC -
A simple question... re. Intel CPU and Heasink
this is probably really simple, but i need to be sure so i'll ask anyway
My question is:
Do you remove the thin black sheet of what i pressume is aluminium on the heatsink before installing it onto the CPU?
I applied some Artic Silver on the CPU and left the black aluminium sheet on when installing my Intel Heatsink and CPU.... is this the correct way?
CheersStock heatsink and fan dont remove, dont use thermal paste
After marketheatsink and fan, apply thermal paste
If you must apply thermal paste remove black strip as best u can and then apply rubbing alcohol to remove last traces then apply thermal paste.
If you ever remove heatsink you will probably need to remove black strip and reapply thermal paste -
Two simple questions i cant figure out please help!
hey guys, i used soundtrack before on a 20 minute long project and i looked all over and cant figure out how to do this one simple thing! its a professional audio editing program but i cant figure out how to do a simple fade in or have a clip just fade out...i couldnt find it in the help either...it would deffidently help in my project and blend everything together nicer...im not talking about a transition between two clips but just a single clip alone having it fade in and fade out?
my other question is the audio levels. i see on the left hand side you can adjust it for each individual layer...but is there anyway to adjust the individual clips? the project i did before that was 20 minutes had like 25 layers! because all of the layers had usually one seperate clip alone in it since i couldnt make each clip in the layer have its own individual unique audio level adjustment. im sure there is a way and its probably real simple!
these are jus two dumb questions i feel stupid for aksing for but would be greatly appreciated if you could help!!! thanks!!!Maybe this will be fixed in 2.0. For now, if you right click on the clip and choose "open in editor", the clip will open as an audio file. There you'll be able to highlight an area and select "fade out" (or fade in). It will update in your multi track project.
You can do the same thing for levels. Or you can use the envelope levels, set keyframes, and adjust the gain accordingly.
I know, not an easy way to do a lot of clips.
jimi
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