Round particulars question.

This is a general question concerning classes that contain unresolved references in methods or fields in any particular round and how Element or Type instances should be treated on subsequent rounds.
If you have a set of source files, where some subset references classes generated by some other subset as a super class. Round 1's version of a type-element resolves the super class to <any>, but round 2's version resolves to the generated class. If you want your processor to examine the ancestry of a referring class, you basically have to defer examination of the element types to round 2's version of the type element.
My question is does the same condition hold for a class's type element where it's contents may have unresolved references? Basically if a method of a class on round 1, returns or has a unresolved type on round1, then the elements representing the method remain invalid unless you find round2's version of the type element. I suspect it is, but this leads to a question or feature request: It would be rather handy if there was a method call available to the processor that would indicate if a particular element's version has changed from round to round. The motivation for this is that classes of interest to my processor are typically discovered in round1, but proccessing them need to be deferred. This means I need to test if a class has any incomplete references, then perform book keeping to track them.
It seems like the individual programmer would have to grovel quite deeply into the network of references in order to determine if a type-element is 'complete'. It would be handy to have a call that would answer the above question or if 'round-version stamp' where available from elements and the processor environment. Kick me if it's there already or if I'm pursuing a red-herring.

Hm. Well, what I am finding then is that certain questions about the completeness of any particular type references could be supplied by the processor or type/element classes, because for my particular case, my problem is that I really need to only handle classes that have all their references resolved to known types and defer processing of incomplete classes to subsequent rounds where references have had a chance to be resolved. There's no handy query (that I know of) that answers that particular question. It also would be helpful if there where some mechanism in the processor to tell it to hand back a "refreshed" set of classes or methods one is interested in.
Now I am rather curious if it is required or just very useful to (seemingly) chuck out everything parsed in the previous round.

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I just went into my external editor (photoshop elements) and edited a photo that I had exported into PSE from within aperture. I have 2 questions.
1. I have no clue how to make that edited version appear in aperture now. I have tried saving it under three different names. I have turned off the external editor. How do you get back to aperture and see the newly edited photo? There must be something easy I am missing.
2. Can I run my external editor by itself and import a photo from my aperture library without turning on aperture? Or must I always export the photo out of aperture and into the external editor?
Thanks so much in advance.
p.s. I even listened to the "round-tripping" podcast on Inside Aperture. Made it sound so easy.

Keep in mind every time you open an image with the
external editor a new master is created (psd or tiff)
and will increase the size of your Library.
-- or rather, every time you open a new image, or make any Aperture adjustments to an externally-edited image.
If you edit a file in an external editor and save it, and then select it again later and again choose Open with External Editor, as long as you haven't adjusted it meanwhile in Aperture, the same version will be sent rather than a new one being created. This puts a premium on organizing your workflow so that external editing is normally the last thing you do to an image, though you're not limited to that if you need to work the other way.

Rounded Rectangles question

I'm afraid I may know the answer to this already, but this is so fundamental I think I must be doing something wrong. In AICS3, I want to draw a rounded rectangle, but I want to control the radius of the arc defining the four corners. I'm trying to emulate an open field notebook, which has rounded corners on its pages. Illustrator seems to have a single radius, randomly chosen and consistant regardless of the size of the rectangle. I've tried double clicking the icon and get nothing. The "Transform" palette is the same as it is for all shapes: nothing but simplistic x,y inputs. (As an aside, I run into these types of problems quite a bit. The fact that AI does not draw circles and arcs has always been a problem (a circle or arc being a line controled by radius, diamter, chord, circumference or fractions thereof.)) The rounded rectangle I draw is nothing more than a rectangle with two control points at each corner. I'm hopeful there is an easy way to make those corners perfect arcs of any size by some numerical input somewhere, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to resort to my usual method: drawing it in my CAD program and importing it. Optimisim, however, rules the day today and so I'm throwing the question out there. I have CS4 access, too, so if it is possible in that version I'll switch computers for a while. Thanks in advance for any help!
MGuilfoile

While dragging a rounded rectangle, add the keyboard modifier of up cursor or down cursor to adjust the radius, while drawing.
If you click once with the rounded rectangle tool and let go, you will get the dialog box.

How do I use a particular question master slide?(Captivate 6)

Hello,
I have created my own theme, and with it, several masters of the MCQ,T/F,FIB... question slide. When I add a multiple choice question slide to my project, it doesn't ask me which of these question masters I want to use, and selects the same master each time. How do I use different question slide master that I have created? In other words, how do I change the default MCQ,T/F,FIB.. question master?
Thank you!
Ryan

Can I have different question masters then for one question type? For example -- five different masters for the hot spot question...
Ryan

Trapcode Particular Questions

Hey all, I just now started using trapcode particular and upon doing so and looking at a few tutorials i wanted to maybe get some help with my project im working on. I have a scen where i want my actor to warp into the scene almost like nightcrawler in the xmen movies but i wanted to make it more flowy instead of the smoke that people use. I was working with particular emitters and following a light but i kinda wants a very thick particle layer that flows out in all different directions and some particles may float up and some maybe down but dissipate. Kinda like liquid smoke i suppose. Anyone have any knowledge on this that may be able to help me get what i want? that way i get a finnished project and can better understand how it all works. Also, when i try to make the particles black, they dissapear.. i know black is usually a transparent color on AE but i have seen black particles done. Any help would be just awesome! Im kinda stumped =/

Have you looked at Red Giant TV. Filter the results by selecting Trapcode Particular and you'll have a bunch of tutorials, some of them involving lines.
The procedure is too complex to go into in a short post. Particle lifetime, emitter size, birth rate, and setting velocity and gravity to zero are key to generating lines with Particular. Streaklet particles also make this easier but may not work for your "worm" application.
Also, if you put a colored background behind your particles and you set the blend mode to normal you'll be able to see the black particles.

Layer Emitter-Particular Question?

I'm trying to let the particles emit from the outer ring itself, but instead its emitting from the whole solid, and not just the masked created ring.
How can I let the partocular only emit from the outer ring itself? I pre-comped it,I didn't pre-comp it, still the particles emitted from the whole layer.
Is there a way?
Please & thank you!
Best,
Kenny

The layer emitter distributes the emission points randomly across the entire solid. use a layer grid for more predictable results. And naturally you will have to set the birth properties to actually use the layer's color and opacity.
Mylenium

ColdFusion 11: custom serialisers. More questions than answers

G'day:
I am reposting this from my blog ("ColdFusion 11: custom serialisers. More questions than answers") at the suggestion of Adobe support:
@dacCfml @ColdFusion Can you post your queries at http://t.co/8UF4uCajTC for all cfclient and mobile queries.— Anit Kumar Panda (@anitkumar85) April 29, 2014
This particular question is not regarding <cfclient>, hence posting it on the regular forum, not on the mobile-specific one as Anit suggested. I have edited this in places to remove language that will be deemed inappropriate by the censors here. Changes I have made are in [square brackets]. The forums software here has broken some of the styling, but so be it.
G'day:
I've been wanting to write an article about the new custom serialiser one can have in ColdFusion 11, but having looked at it I have more questions than I have answers, so I have put it off. But, equally, I have no place to ask the questions, so I'm stymied. So I figured I'd write an article covering my initial questions. Maybe someone can answer then.
ColdFusion 11 has added the notion of a custom serialiser a website can have (docs: "Support for pluggable serializer and deserializer"). The idea is that whilst Adobe can dictate the serialisation rules for its own data types, it cannot sensibly infer how a CFC instance might get serialised: as each CFC represents a different data "schema", there is no "one size fits all" approach to handling it. So this is where the custom serialiser comes in. Kind of. If it wasn't a bit rubbish. Here's my exploration thusfar.
One can specify a custom serialiser by adding a setting to Application.cfc:
component { this.name = "serialiser01"; this.customSerializer="Serialiser"; }
In this case the value - Serialiser - is the name of a CFC, eg:
// Serialiser.cfccomponent { public function canSerialize(){ logArgs(args=arguments, from=getFunctionCalledName()); return true; } public function canDeserialize(){ logArgs(args=arguments, from=getFunctionCalledName()); return true; } public function serialize(){ logArgs(args=arguments, from=getFunctionCalledName()); return "SERIALISED"; } public function deserialize(){ logArgs(args=arguments, from=getFunctionCalledName()); return "DESERIALISED"; } private function logArgs(required struct args, required string from){ var dumpFile = getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath()) & "dump_#from#.html"; if (fileExists(dumpFile)){ fileDelete(dumpFile); } writeDump(var=args, label=from, output=dumpFile, format="html"); } }
This CFC needs to implement four methods:
canSerialize() - indicates whether something can be serialised by the serialiser;
canDeserialize() - indicates whether something can be deserialised by the serialiser;
serialize() - the function used to serialise something
deserialize() - the function used to deserialise something
I'm being purposely vague on those functions for a reason. I'll get to that.
The first [issue] in the implementation here is that for the custom serialisation to work, all four of those methods must be implemented in the serisalisation CFC. So common sense would dictate that a way to enforce that would be to require the CFC to implement an interface. That's what interfaces are for. Now I know people will argue the merit of having interfaces in CFML, but I don't really give a [monkey's] about that: CFML has interfaces, and this is what they're for. So when one specifies the serialiser in Application.cfc and it doesn't fulfil the interface requirement, it should error. Right then. When one specifies the inappropriate tool for the job. What instead happens is if the functions are omitted, one will get erratic behaviour in the application, through to outright errors when ColdFusion goes to call the functions and cannot find it. EG: if I have canSerialize() but no serialize() method, CF will error when it comes to serialise something:
JSON serialization failure: Unable to serialize to JSON.
Reason : The method serialize was not found in component C:/wwwroot/scribble/shared/git/blogExamples/coldfusion/CF11/customerserialiser/Serialiser .cfc.
The error occurred inC:/wwwroot/scribble/shared/git/blogExamples/coldfusion/CF11/customerserialiser/testBasic.c fm: line 4
2 : o = new Basic();
3 :
4 : serialised = serializeJson(o);5 : writeDump([serialised]);
6 :
Note that the error comes when I go to serialise something, not when ColdFusion is told about the serialiser in the first place. This is just lazy/thoughtless implementation on the part of Adobe. It invites bugs, and is just sloppy.
The second [issue] follows immediately on from this.
Given my sample serialiser above, I then run this test code to examine some stuff:
o = new Basic(); serialised = serializeJson(o); writeDump([serialised]); deserialised = deserializeJson(serialised); writeDump([deserialised]);
So all I'm doing is using (de)serializeJson() as a baseline to see how the functions work. here's Basic.cfc, btw:
component { }
And the test output:
array
1
SERIALISED
array
1
DESERIALISED
This is as one would expect. OK, so that "works". But now... you'll've noted I am logging the arguments each of the serialisation methods receives, as I got.
Here's the arguments passed to canSerialize():
canSerialize - struct
1
XML
My reaction to that is: "[WTH]?" Why is canSerialize() being passed the string "XML" when I'm trying to serialise an object of type Basic.cfc?
Here's the docs for canSerialize() (from the page I linked to earlier):
CanSerialize - Returns a boolean value and takes the "Accept Type" of the request as the argument. You can return true if you want the customserialzer to serialize the data to the passed argument type.
Again, back to "[WTH]?" What's the "Accept type" of the request? And what the hell has the request got to do with a call to serializeJson()? You might think that "Accept type" references some HTTP header or something, but there is no "Accept type" header in the HTTP spec (that I can find: "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1: 14 Header Field Definitions"). There's an "Accept" header (in this case: "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8"), and other ones like "Accept-Encoding", "Accept-Language"... but none of which contain a value of "XML". Even if there was... how would it be relevant to the question as to whether a Basic.cfc instance can be serialised? Raised as bug: 3750730.
serialize() gets more sensible arguments:
serialize - struct
1
https://www.blogger.com/nullserialize - component scribble.shared.git.blogExamples.coldfusion.CF11.customerserialiser.Basic
2
JSON
So the first is the object to serialise (which surely should be part of the question canSerialize() is supposed to ask, and the format to serialise to. Cool.
canDeserialize() is passed this:
canDeserialize - struct
1
JSON
I guess it's because it's being called from deserializeJson(), so it's legit to expect the input value is indeed JSON. Fair enough. (Note: I'm not actually passing it JSON, but that's beside the point here).
And deserialize() is passed this:
deserialize - struct
1
SERIALISED
2
JSON
3
[empty string]
The first argument is the value to work on, and the second is the type of deserialisation to do. I have no idea what the third argument is for, and it's not mentioned directly or indirectly on that docs page. So dunno what the story is there.
The next issue isn't a code-oriented one, but an implementation one: how the hell are we expected to work with this?
The only way to work here is for each function to have a long array of IF/ELSEIF statements which somehow identify each object type that is serialisable, and then return true from canSerialise(), or in the case of serialize(), go ahead and do the serialisation. So this means this one CFC needs to know about everything which can be serialised in the entire application. Talk about a failure in "separation of concerns".
You know the best way of determining if an object can be seriaslised? Ask it! Don't rely on something else needing to know. This can be achieved very easily in one of two ways:
Check to see if the object implements a "Serializable" interface, which requires a serialize() method to exist.
Or simply take the duck-typing approach: if a CFC implements a serialize() method: it can be serialised. By calling that method. Job done.
Either approach would work fine, keeps things nicely encapsulated, and I see merits in both. And either make far more sense than Adobe's approach. Which is like something from the "OO Failures Special Needs" class.
Deserialisation is trickier. Because it relies on somehow working out how to deserialise() an object. I'm not sure of the best approach here, but - again - how to deserialise something should be as close to the thing needing deserialisation as possible. IE: something in the serialised data itself which can be used to bootstrap the process.
This could simply be a matter of specifying a CFC type at a known place in the serialised data. EG: Adobe stipulates that if the serialised data is JSON, and at the top level of the JSON is a key eg: type, and the value is an extant CFC... use that CFC's deserialize() method. Or it could look for an object which contains a type and a method, or whatever. But Adobe can specify a contract there.
The only place I see a centralised CFC being relevant here is for a mechanism for handling serialised data that is neither a ColdFusion internal type, nor identifiable as above. In this case, perhaps they could provide a mechanism for a serialisation router, which basically has a bunch of routes (if/elseifs if need be) which contains logic as to how to work out how to deserialise the data. But it should not be the actual deserialiser, it should simply have the mechanism to find out how to do it. This is actually pretty much the same in operation as the deserialize() approach in the current implementation, but it doesn't need the canDeserialize() method (it can return false at the end of the routing), and it doesn't need to know about serialising. And also it's not the main mechanism to do the deserialisation, it's just the fall back if the prescribed approach hasn't been used.
TBH, this still sounds a bit jerry-built, and I'm open for better suggestions. This is probably a well-trod subject in other languages, so it might be worth looking at how the likes of Groovy, Ruby or even PHP (eek!) achieve this.
There's still another issue with the current approach. And this demonstrates that the Adobe guys don't actually work with either CFML applications or even modern websites. This approach only works for a single, stand-alone website (like how we might have done in 2001). What if I'm not in the business of building websites, but I build applications such as FW/1 or ColdBox or the like? Or any sort of "helper" application. They cannot use the current Adobe implementation of the customserializer. Why? Because the serialisation code needs to be in a website-specific CFC. There's no way for Luis to implement a custom serialiser in ColdBox (for example), and then have it work for someone using ColdBox. Because it relies on either editing Application.cfc to specify a different CFC, or editing the existing customSerializer CFC. Neither of which are very good solutions. This should have been immediately apparent to the Adobe engineer(s) implementing this stuff had they actually had any experience with modern web applications (which generally aren't just a single monolithic site, but an aggregation of various other sub applications). Equally, I know it's not a case of having thought about this and [I'm just missing something], because when I asked them the other day, at first they didn't even get what I was asking, but when I clarified were just like "oh yeah... um... err... yeah, you can't do that. We'll... have to... ah yeah". This has been raised as bug 3750731.
So I declare the intent here valid, but the implementation to be more alpha- / pre-release- quality, not release-ready.
Still: it could be easily deprecated and rework fairly easily. I've raised this as bug 3750732.
Or am I missing something?
Adam

Yes, you can easily add additional questions to the Lookup.WebClient.Questions Lookup to allow some additional choices. We have added quite a few additional choices, we have noticed that removing them once people have selected them causes some errors.
You can also customize the required number of questions to select when each user sets them up as well as the number required to be correct to reset the password, these options are in the System Configuration settings.
If you need multi-language versions of the questions, you will also need to modify the appropriate language resource file in the xlWebApp.war file to provide the necessary translations for the values entered into the Lookup.

Domain Name settings in Solaris - Newbie question

Sorry for a newbie question!
I am already pointing a domain name to web hosting for email account. Now, I need an application server to run ERP software and Oracle, and installing Solaris and Oracle need a domain name.
If I point my domain name to the server, how do I receive emails from web hosting???
Install an email server to the application server instead? What can I do if I want the same domain name?

Your questions are completely off-topic for the forum.
These SunOS forums are for questions on <i>"how do I install my OS"</i>
You particular question is in the <i>"how can I install Solaris while using the CD drive"</i> forum.
So, if you had a question on how to edit the /etc/inet/hosts file to establish a FQDN on the computer, then it might be appropriate for the forum.
Unfortunately, I don't have a clue on where to redirect you, except perhaps to the Sun Java Enterprise System suite of applications?

Question about using enumeration in a program

I've seen some of the other posts about enumeration in this forum, but it does not address a particular question that I have.
What I'm attempting to do, is to enumarate some SMTP server response codes so that I can effectively use them in a switch. In Java, you don't enum like you do in C. So I pulled out a reference manual and copied some code from that.
Given the code (at bottom of this post) which I am using from the book example, I created a class for which is supposed to enumerate some message responses from an SMTP server. (there are only a few of the 21 responses that I inetend to create.)
The book goes on to show how one might use this in a construct.
From another class outside of StatusCode, I use the follow construct:
enum StatusCode {"211", "214", "220", "221", "250", "251", "354", "421"}; }
However, my compiler complains when I attempt to compile this. Says it's expecting a ";" at line XX.
Can somebody help or redirect me to a better way to handle response codes coming back in a J2ME (MIDlet) input stream?
Thanks in advance,
Mike
====the code====
public final class StatusCode {
public static final int
SYSTEMHELP_REPLY = 1, //211 System
HELPMSG = 2, //214 Help message
SERVICEREADY = 3, //220 <domain> Service ready
SERVICECLOSING = 4, //221 <domain> close channel
REQUESTCOMPLETED = 5, //250 action okay, completed
USERNOT_LOCAL_WILL_FORWARD = 6, //251 User not local
STARTMAIL_INPUT = 7, //354 Start mail input; end
public static final StatusCode SYSTEM_HELP = new StatusCode(
SYSTEMHELP_REPLY);
public static final StatusCode HELP_MSG = new StatusCode(_HELP_MSG);
public static final StatusCode SERVICE_READY = new StatusCode(_SERVICE_READY);
public static final StatusCode SERVICE_CLOSING = new StatusCode(
SERVICECLOSING);
public static final StatusCode REQUEST_COMPLETED = new StatusCode(
REQUESTCOMPLETED);
public static final StatusCode USER_NOT_LOCAL_WILL_FORWARD = new StatusCode(
USERNOT_LOCAL_WILL_FORWARD);
public static final StatusCode START_MAIL_INPUT = new StatusCode(
STARTMAIL_INPUT);
public int value() {
return _value;
public static final StatusCode from_int(int i) {
return SYSTEM_HELP;
private StatusCode(int _value){
this._value=_value;
private int _value;

This isn't C code.
This came right out of my Java reference manual.
Maybe the author was on acid?
LOL
He's actually talking abou IDL enum. Is that the same thing that I'm trying to accomplish?

Question about POWL in Travel Management

Greetings!
currently, we are in the process of implementing SAP Travel Management on our DEV System (Request and Expenses) and therefore of designing business processes. One major crucial point is the process of Approving the Travel Request.
We are on ECC 6.0 EHP 4 and therefore use the WD4A Travel Scenarios. We use a portal ess/mss with respective Stacks/SPs and BPs.
Business Process Draft A:
The Traveler is filling out his Travel Request (FITE_REQUEST) and is assigning the relevant cost centers himself (they are initially defaulted to IT0001, but IT0001, as per our definition, isn't nessecarily correct always; thus, manually cost center assignment possible).
When the Travel request is sent for approval, the Manager who is responsible for the cost center chosen in the request has to be chosen as the approver. If there is more than one cost center, there will still be only one approver. There hasn't be decided yet, who, in that case will be it, but this is of none concern for my particular question at the moment.
For the first step to do I would naively say "I make a POWL query with an own POWL feeder class saying 'Assign all Users to me, which travel for a certain cost center' ". Would this be possible?
Now, let me explain what I am unsure about, concerning the following use-case:
1. Traveler creates a request on 28th of February 2012 for the Date range of 1st of March 2011 till 3rd of March, choosing Cost Center A so the Request should be visible to Manager A for Cost Center A. Traveler is assigned to Manager A's POWL. Manager A can see the traveler from 28th of February onwards.
2. Traveler creates yet another request on the 28th of February 2012 for the Date range of 7th of March till 10th of March,
choosing Cost Center B so the Request should be visible to Manager B for Cost Center B. Traveler is supposedly assigned to Manager B's POWL. Manager B can see the traveler from 28th of February onwards.
Question: What happens to the POWL? Who can see what
Manager A must only see travel request from cost center A.
Manager B must only see travel request from cost center B.
What I assume will happen is:
- Both Managers can see both travel requests because both managers have User Traveler assigned, which is forbidden due to business restrictions...
Any Ideas, solutions, discussions are welcomed.
Best regards,
Lukas

nzworld, thanks for your idea. However this is not possible because the relation of user to cost centers to approvers can be
1 - n - n.
After the feedback here, talking back to my colleagues and debating this with our consultants, we will not be using POWL for our approval process, because it's simply not flexible enough for our cause. Closing thread.

ICloud photo library question

So I can find hundreds of articles telling me that if you iCloud storage is full, your photos won't sync anymore. But if you have thousands of photos, what will happen in my phone is eventually full?
I mean, I have my "optimize iPhone storage" option turned on, but there will be a maximum right? Or are the optimized versions really that small of size?
Thank you in advance for answering my question.
Rafael

Yeah - I'm not seeing anywhere that it states if there is a maximum of "optimized" photos you can keep on your device. I'm guessing that "optimized" photos must be much like iTunes in the Cloud where you can see all of your music (including what is stored in the cloud), but only the music you have actually downloaded will be on your physical device. So only the "original photos" that the management system have left on your device, or that you have specifically downloaded are actually on your device.
Sorry I'm not 100% on that. I'll see if any of our Photo experts know for certain!
But to answer your question about:
"nowhere it's stated that your oldest/never viewed pictures will be removed from your device" I think this covers that particular question:
How does iCloud Photo Library save space on my device?
If you turn on Optimize [device] Storage, iCloud Photo Library will automatically manage the size of your library on your iOS device, so you can make the most of your device's storage and access more photos than ever. iCloud Photo Library stores the original, high-resolution photos and videos in iCloud and can keep lightweight, device-optimized versions on each of your devices. As long as you have enough storage, recent photos and videos that you access the most will stay on your device at full resolution.
To turn on Optimize [device] Storage on your device, tap Settings > iCloud > Photos or Settings > Photos & Camera, then select Optimize [device] Storage. You need an Internet connection to access an original photo or video that’s stored only in iCloud.
So, if original photos are the ones that are actually on your device, then it will remove older and least viewed original photos to maximize storage when needed.
This is supported by the paragraph about turning off iCloud Photo Library:
You can turn off iCloud Photo Library for a single iOS device by going to Settings > iCloud > Photos and turning off iCloud Photo Library beta. If you turned on Optimize [device] Storage, you might not be storing all original photos and videos on that device. To download the original photos and videos, select Download and Keep Originals.
If it is off, you do not have access to those photos that are "optimized", so that supports the idea that they actually live in the cloud.
Cheers,
GB

Can't Edit Question

When opening a Cap 2 file that already has slides and
quesions slides-- Selecting a particular question slide the "edit
question" button below the timeline is "flashing" and cannot be
selected. I think I have heard of this before with a
workaround/fix. Please remind me!

Okay, I found the problem. question slide was locked, and for
some reason, this makes the "edit question" area flash on my
system.
rjh

I3 configuration questions

I've just switched to i3 and have a few questions about the configuration/customization..
I don't know whether it's ok to just ask them.. sadly I'm too busy (or lazy, you choose) to go trough the whole i3 user doc, just ~10 pages, but here it goes..
How do I set my laptop's media volume buttons to increase/decrease/mute volume (i've done it with alsamixer up to now)
How do I define a background picture for i3lock? (--image didn't work, yes it was a png, no error messages)
Can I modify the i3lock circle (changing the circle or adding a picture there as well)?
How can I define that a certain program opens up on a certain workspace (e.g. firefox always on workspace 4)
How can I name workspaces in the i3bar?
How do I alter boarder color and width?
Can I save a session (what is opened where) when restarting?
Can I minimize a window?
If i split a container (MOD4+H / V) or set to stacking/tabbing mode, how do I undo that? (having one simple container again)
Where do I put any commands (e.g. `feh --bg-scale ~/.picture.png`) that I want started on every restart?
thanks for any hint, answers and sorry in case I cause grumbling..
best regards,
daedalus
Last edited by daedalus.mythos (2014-11-26 14:38:48)

ajbibb wrote:
There was a suggestion in the primary i3 thread a while back, maybe from Tribly (apologies if I've mis-attributed it) to have a directory for your wallpaper that contains a symlink to the actual wallpaper. Then when you wish to change your background all you need to do is modify the symlink instead of modifying your .config file. I expanded that idea to also contain my i3lock background. Code is:
# set the screen lock PNG file
# set this variable to point to ~/.wallpaper/screenlock which
# should be a symlink to the actual picture
set $screenlock ~/.wallpaper/screenlock
Key bind to start the lock program:
bindsym $mod+F12 exec --no-startup-id i3lock -c 333333 -i $screenlock -t
the -c option provides a clean color should the background not be found
thank you very much for the hint!
snakeroot wrote:
I just started using i3 a few weeks ago, so I understand how daunting the documentation may feel.
Might I suggest that you use the i3 FAQs instead (or really as well)? These aren't really FAQs in the classic sense, but more like StackExchange (i.e., community-driven Q&A). Even if the questions aren't exactly on point, there's often useful background.
The FAQ search page is here:
https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/
Some pages germane to a couple of your particular questions (so you can see what I mean):
daedelus.mythos wrote:How do I set my laptop's media volume buttons to increase/decrease/mute volume (i've done it with alsamixer up to now)
https://faq.i3wm.org/question/125/how-t … ms-volume/
daedelus.mythos wrote:How can I define that a certain program opens up on a certain workspace (e.g. firefox always on workspace 4)
https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2155/how- … les-in-i3/
https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3389/star … e-failing/
Good luck and enjoy learning i3!
Thanks a lot for the heads up and the links!

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Hello!
I'm working on a project using Captivate 6. There is a Sequence question using the drop down option for Answer Type. For this particular question there are 5 items that need to be placed in order. When a learner clicks the drop down to answer the question only 4 of the 5 options display forcing the learner to scroll to see the last option. Is there a way to make the drop down display larger so the learner doesn't have to scroll?
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Marie

Thanks Lilybiri!
This was helpful. My team decided to stick with the drop down format, but by making the font size smaller we were able to fit all 5 options into the window (taking away the need to scroll.
Thanks again,
Marie

AP Div with Rounded Corners

Hi All,
I want to draw an AP Div but I want it to have rounded corners. The reason being is that when I add a seperate background it will be more obvious and look better.
If anybody knows of a better way of adding a body of text with it's own background and rounded corners please can you let me know how to do it?
Many Thanks
Big_Gee

Wow Big_Gee! I think that's a Big_Question!
For a start, you can add rounded corners using CSS3 but it isn't widely supported accross all browsers. I don't think that DW will add those CSS rules but it won't take too much to find sample code on the web with a quick Google search on CSS Rounded Corners or something. Nancy O has recently responded to a rounded corner question here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/657158?tstart=30. I don't konw if it makes a difference that you want the effect on AP Divs or not. I haven't read that you can't.
Adding a background image is achieved with CSS and you might be able to think about putting the rounded corners on the image in your graphics editor. That will depend partly on how flexible you site is and whether users can increase text size in the browser.
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Martin

Round particulars question.

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