Repeating/looping animation layers

I have an animation with 8 pictures. The pictures fade in and
fade out. So, for example, pic 1 fades in and then stays
steady/solid for some time and then fades out, just as pic 1 fades
out, pic 2 fades in and so on. But the problem arises once the
process repeats. As the last picture is fading out, pic 1 is fading
in and a quick white background appears and then pic1 reappears
because the animation has looped back to the beginning. How can I
get the last picture to fade out and the first pic to fade in look
like the other transitions? I want to avoid the white background
from showing up and have a smooth transition like the other ones.
Thanks

As the last pic fades out, fade in the first pic. Sounds like
you are doing that.
Then on the very last frame, put in the Actions panel:
gotoAndPlay("loop");
Then go to the frame near the beginning (but not the first
frame) where pic 1 has just finished fading in, so it is solid.
Select that frame and in the Properties panel put "loop" in the
lower left in the <Frame Label> text box.

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I've used the Timline Actions Panel a few other times to loop animations by just selecting 'Complete' and then using sym.play(0); to return to the beginning - pretty hard to mess up I thought. I have a new animation where this is just not working at all. Could there be any other reason this is not working or perhaps something I'm just not looking at?

Hey,
Sure, no problem. Here's a link a a demo of it: http://www.damon9.com/dev/publish/web/EndofDays.html
Not sure how much you can see from just that, but inside the Edge comp there's nothing crazy going on. 4 layers, 2 rotating 6 degrees a second, stops at 60 seconds (when it should start back from the beginning). I've tried the usual Timeline Action sym.play(0); on complete and also just adding a trigger at 60 seconds of sym.play(0);
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Endlessly Looping Animation

I'd like to create an endlessly looping movie that loads 3
images, then fades out each one using a tween to reveal the image
just beneath it. As soon as the third image fades, I'd like for the
animation to start over and just keep repeating. I'm trying to use
a timer to do this but need some serious help. I would imagine that
a "for" loop would be used to repeat the animation but I can't
determine how to make loop more than a select number of times.
Below is the code I have. Can somebody lend a hand?
Thanks so much.

Thanks Ned! That's genius, and I never would have thought to
do it that way. Thanks.
The only glitch is the animation gets a little weird after
the first time through. The images start to just appear very
briefly. They continue looping just fine, but they are not staying
on screen for the entire 5 seconds. Do you have any idea what's
happening?
Here's my test URL:
http://www.savagepixels.com/photoAnimation.html
and the code:
var image1_mc:mcImage1 = new mcImage1();
var image2_mc:mcImage2 = new mcImage2();
var image3_mc:mcImage3 = new mcImage3();
addChild(image1_mc);
addChild(image3_mc);
addChild(image2_mc);
addChild(image1_mc);
var imgCount:uint = 1;
var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(5000, 0);
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, fadeImage);
myTimer.start();
function fadeImage (e:TimerEvent):void
new Tween(this["image"+String(imgCount)+"_mc"], "alpha",
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imgCount +=1;
if(imgCount == 4)
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}

Real Instruments play beyond end of repeated loop

I've tried every google-fu trick I could think of to see if anyone else has had this problem.
I record a real instrument (say an electric guitar riff). I drag/repeat/loop it 3 or 4 times. It plays properly.
Then at some point I select it, and move it left or right.
The part starts at the right time, but will repeat an extra time beyond the visible onscreen loop. Once this glitch occurs, neither resaving, shrinking/re-repeating, moving it around and then back to where I want it make the track end when it's supposed to.
The only way I've found around it, is to end the repeat early and let the erroneous repeat play out, or just end the repeat entirely, and use cut'n'paste instead.
This happens to me *all the time*... anyone else seen this or have a resolution?

Thanks for the suggestions. I can't remember deleting any tracks... however, how would i check for "hidden" tracks?
The funny thing is i can hear the effect returns for the real instrument tracks...tracks that are heavily reverbed i can hear a faint echo of the track. and like i mentioned the drum loop and software piano still play fine.
And, I also see monitor activity in the real instrument tracks when i play the song. Everything looks normal, but of course, the sound isn't there.
Thanks again for your help!
Message was edited by: Ike the Longshoreman
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Maybe there is a better way to do this but I want an action to take place whenever the modification date of a certain file changes. This is what I use but it errors because of a timeout after about 10 mins if the mod date doesn't change. I need this to be checking all the time.
on idle
tell application "Finder"
set UpdatedOLD to modification date of file aFile
set UpdatedNEW to modification date of file aFile
end tell
repeat while UpdatedOLD = UpdatedNEW
tell application "Finder"
set UpdatedNEW to modification date of file aFile
end tell
end repeat
end idle
How can I get this to work?

Hello
I think you have stepped on a land mine set by OSX 10.6.
There's a fatal bug in Apple Event Manager in 10.6 such that one event in every 65535 events will be lost and never be replied, which will result in Apple Event timeout error on sender. This bug has been reported shortly after the 10.6 release and has not yet been fixed as of 10.6.2.
In your current script, you're continuously sending event to Finder and sooner on later send an event with the specific event id that is doomed to be lost. Judging from the time till you see the time out error, that is 10 min, you're at most sending 65535 / 600 = 109.225 events / sec to Finder. You can reduce the number of events by inserting some delay, e.g. 'delay 1' in your repeat loop but it can only defer the failure.
cf.
Re: Timed Out (Silence)
http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2009/Oct/msg00117.html
Re: spurious timeout on nth Apple event on Snow Leopard
http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2009/Nov/msg00041.html
A better way to achieve your task would be to let a launchd agent watch the file.
A recipe is as follows.
1) Save a compiled script in :
~/Library/Scripts/launchd/watchdog.1.scpt
with contents :
--SCRIPT
-- Here put your script that is to be triggered when the file is modified.
-- e.g.
tell application "System Events"
display dialog "The file is modified." giving up after 10
end tell
--END OF SCRIPT
2) Save a UTF-8 plain text file in :
~/Library/LaunchAgents/watchdog.1.plist
with contents :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>watchdog.1</string>
<key>Disabled</key>
<false/>
<key>Program</key>
<string>/usr/bin/osascript</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>osascript</string>
<string>/Users/USER_NAME/Library/Scripts/launchd/watchdog.1.scpt</string>
</array>
<key>WatchPaths</key>
<array>
<string>POSIX_PATH_TO_THE_FIILE</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
*Change USER_NAME to your user name and POSIX_PATH_TO_THE_FIILE to the POSIX path to the file to be watched.
3) Issue the following command in Terminal to load the launchd agent :
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/watchdog.1.plist
Or
3a) Log-out and re-log-in to load the launchd agent.
*The name 'watchdog.1.plist' and 'watchdog.1.scpt' and the script's location '~/Library/Scripts/launchd/' are mere examples. You may change them as you see fit.
cf.
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/m an5/launchd.plist.5.html
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/m an1/launchctl.1.html
Good luck,
H
Message was edited by: Hiroto (fixed typo)

Repeat loops

Within a repeat loop, I get creation dates of sequential files. I can get the creation date of the first file but then when it repeats it wont get the creation date of the next file. When i run it again i can get the creation date of the first two, but not the third. The next time i run it i can get the creation date of the first three but not the fourth, and so on.
Does anyone know why this is happening and what can i do to get the creation dates the first time?
Thank you

Hello John,
The part where I am having a problem is here.
I perform some script that allows me to find these files and which files i need to use and then there is this..
count folder folderList
set folderCount to result
set x to 0
repeat until x = folderCount
set x to x + 1
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set creationDate to result
get date string of creationDate
set dateString to result
get time string of creationDate
set timeString to result
theres a lot more between this and the end of the repeat.
It won't allow me to get the creation date out of the file filePath. so there for I cannot perform the rest of this. I thought it was a problem with the computer because what I have should run. It does not run the first time, it says that the creation date is missing value in the event log. Then I run it again and it gets the first files date, but not the second. then the next time it gets the first two and not the third and so on..
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Nested Repeat Loops in Applescript

The following code has two lists: myURLs and myIMGs. I want to loop through the sites listed in myURLs, take a screenshot, then save them in my Shared folder as the file name listed in myIMGs. So, google.com's image will be saved as "google.jpg", and so forth. The list in myIMGs corresponds to the list in myURLs.
This is what I have, but it doesn't quite work. It loads the first URL from myURLs, takes a screenshot of it, but then loops through each file name in myIMGs and saves that one screenshot with all those various file names. Then, it loads the next URL in myURLs and does the same thing. How do I set the file names in the myIMGs list to correspond to the URLs being loaded from myURLs? I'm having trouble with the nested loops.
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set myIMGs to {"google.jpg", "wikipedia.jpg", "bing.jpg", "apple.jpg"}
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repeat with myURL in myURLs
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close window id windowID
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          repeat with myIMG in myIMGs
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                    try
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-- start the Image Events application
launch
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-- get dimensions of the image
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-- Crops off the Safari header
crop this_image to dimensions {W, H - 50}
-- save the changes
                                        save this_image with icon
-- purge the open image data
close this_image
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                    end try
          end repeat
end repeat

Switch to an indexed loop and you don't need the extra repeat loop; you can run the two lists in parallel. See my changes in red:
set myURLs to {"https://google.com", "https://wikipedia.org", "https://bing.com", "https://apple.com"}
set myIMGs to {"google.jpg", "wikipedia.jpg", "bing.jpg", "apple.jpg"}
-- Sets settings of Safari without interferring with user's settings.
repeat with i from 1 to (count of myURLs)
          tell application "Safari"
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                    do JavaScript ("window.open('" & item i of myURLs & "','_blank','titlebar=0');") in document 1
                              close window id windowID
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How can I get my script to loop through a large FM database of records and change the data in a particular field as in the script below? I cannot figure out the syntax for the repeat loop...
with timeout of "3000" seconds
tell application "FileMaker Pro"
go to database "CPA FM Log Copy"
show every record of database "CPA FM Log Copy"
set theCount to number of record of database "CPA FM Log Copy" as integer
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if field "ph" of record i of database "CPA FM Log Copy" is "NG" then
set data field "ph" of current record of database "CPA FM Log Copy" to "Nice Going"
else if field "ph" of record i of database "CPA FM Log Copy" is "EC" then
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Depending on the number of records in the database, this isn't the most efficient way of doing this.
You should use a 'whose' clause in your script to narrow the FileMaker results to the subset of records you want to change, then change them all at once. This is far more efficient than looping through thousands of records in AppleScript looking for the ones you want.
This should get you on the right track:
<pre class=command>tell application "Filemaker Pro"
go to database "CPA FM Log Copy"
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set data field "ph" of every item of theResults to "Nice Going"
set theResults to every record of database "CPA FM Log Copy" whose field "ph" is "EC"
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In this way you let Filemaker do the searching (which is what it's optimized for), and your script does the least work necessary.
BTW, just so you know why your original script fails, it's because you say:
<pre class=command>set data field "ph" of current record of database "CPA FM Log Copy" to "Nice Going"</pre>
Note that you're always setting the 'current record'. This means that even if there are 1000 records in the database, you only ever set the first field. If you wanted to maintain the repeat approach this would have to change to something like:
<pre class=command>set data field "ph" of record i of database "CPA FM Log Copy" to "Nice Going"</pre>
so now it uses the loop iterator to track which record to change. An even better model that does use a scalar index is to do something like:
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numbers, I cannot find anything in the help files that mention this
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For example, repeat with i := 1 to 200 'step 2' This would
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For example, repeat with i := 1 to 200 'step 3' This would
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One day I think I may just get the hang of
this.........

I didn't examine your code closely, but for the future, if
you need to
randomly pull values from a list and you don't want
duplicates...
Copy the list to a new list, then after you pull a value from
the list
within the loop, immediately use DeleteAtIndex to remove that
value from
the temporary list. So during the next iteration of the loop,
the
previously pulled value is not present to be pulled again.
Erik
The Pc Doctor wrote:
> Many thanks for your suggestions, I think I just got
caught up the my knowledge
> of VB and the for next loop, the solution was so obvious
now you mention it.
>
> The second one I've also solved by way of different
Calculation icons. Here
> is what I was doing (Please forgive the awful code, I am
still new at this)
>
> The whole point of this is to select a chosen number of
Questions from a list
> of a certain amount of questions - the numbers are not
known and is subject to
> change.
>
> I would seed a random numbers (between 1 and QNo) into a
list of up to Q0
> numbers and then use the below code to check to any
duplicate numbers. The
> problem I had was finding a way of if I found duplicate
numbers replacing them
> and testing them again, and again until no duplicates
exist.
>
> I put the below in it's own calculation icon called
'CheckIt'
> - - - - - -
> SortByValue(QuestionStore, TRUE)
> again := 0
> repeat with i := 1 to Q0 - 1
> if QuestionStore = QuestionStore then
> QuestionStore := Random(1,QNo,1)
> again := 1
> end if
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> - - - - - - - -
> I then put the following in a following calculation Icon
> - - - - - - - -
> -- Test to see if we have duplicate numbers, if yes then
go back to the check
> random numbers Icon.
> if again = 1 then
> GoTo(IconID@"CheckIt")
> end if
> - - - - - - - - - -
>
> Well it works
>
> Thanks again
>
> Paul
>
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I'm trying to create a slide which has a continue button (no
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I'm doing a shell script in the background and I'm using a repeat loop to read out the log of the results. Meanwhile, I want to have a Cancel button available to the user.
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1. Create a control in the window which has some sort of boolean property (if you are using a progress bar, then you already have one, since a progress bar can be indeterminate, and you can check this).
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Not quite sure on how to title it but thats the jist if it:)
Hello and thank you for your time,
Basically, I want to take a tiny small shape object within a comp size of 2048 x 1024, and have it animated so that this small shape object starts at the very top edge of the comp (where comp meets the grey dark-matter space), and move it straight down to the bottom edge of the comp, and then have to repeat again starting at the top again, so that this small shape object is constantly starting at the top, and moving down to the bottom.
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D

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