Spaces sliding animation ceases

I have a recurring issue with Spaces where it ceases to do the sliding animation when I switch between Spaces; instead, the windows on the old space vanish over about a tenth of a second while the new ones pop up.
I think it's connected with switching between using an external display on my MacBook Pro with the lid closed, suspending the machine in that state, and then waking it without the external display by opening the lid.
Is this a known issue? Any way to fix it aside from a reboot?

Oh ok...i think i get it now. I was thinking that you wanted
it to change when the mouse was moved over it. This is not hard at
all. Is this what your looking for? (Click here to see example:
EXAMPLE
if so you can download the .swf to see how i did it:
FLA
File
Sorry that it is not very well done...i did it in about 5
min. If you have questions just ask.
Hope that this helps.

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Message was edited by: bmm727
Message was edited by: bmm727

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Three fingers for all the app related stuff, ie. Up for mission control, Down for App Exposé, and Left/Right for space,
Two for scrolling and navigation.
It was phenomonal. I thought it felt way more natural and felt easier. Only problem? Two Finger swiping (for navigation) wasn't universal plus it often interfered with scrolling. The later could obviously be forgiven, and dealt with; however the former really hit hard. Now because most power users (**** most casual users as well) no longer use the back/foward buttons and got rather used to swiping back and forth with three fingers, it's really awkward to being forced to go back to buttons.
Now we are left with two different swipes for navigation (one with the card sliding animation for safari and the normal one for other apps). This leaves users having to switch styles every time they switch from a browser to another app, which imo is rather unlike Apple.
Here's what they should've done imo:
1.Two opposing sets of gestures you can modify and choose from:
Set 1 (Default): Two Finger For Navigation & Scrolling (system wide, i.e. not just safari), three finger for mission control etc.
Set 2: Two Finger for Scrolling (only), Three Finger for Navigation, Four Finger for Mission Control etc.
2. Have two choices for navigation- (classic, or the new one with the animation). So whatever you pick that's the only style you'll see. For instance you pick the new animation, whether you use Set 1 or 2 only the gesture for navigation will use it. As oppose to now where you have two different gestures doing pratically the same thing for different apps.
Before you say it, yes I have already changed it in settings, hear me out completely. That's not my point. What I meant was that they should've pushed it forward it like this, and added the safari animation when you do a three finger swipe system wide, because right now it's not there.
It's easier too- 4 fingers for all the app related stuff, 3 for system wide navigation (w/ Safari animation), and 2 for scrolling.. It's more natural.
Like I said they could've of done good with what they have now, if they added system wide support for that two finger swipe animation for safari. Having it isolated sorta ruins it..
Thoughts, opinions? Your Experiences.

Put iPhone into recovery mode, then set up as a new iPhone and restore. This will download a fresh copy of the software and install it into your iPhone.
Do wait until the whole process is complete.
While iPhone is on, press and hold both power/sleep button and home button to force shutdown.
Press and hold Home button while you connect the USB lead to your iPhone.
Release Home button when "Connect to iTunes" is displayed. (iPhone is now in recovery mode)
iTunes will recognise your iPhone is in recovery mode. Select to set up the iPhone as a new iPhone, iTunes will download a new version of software and install it.
Once iTunes states OK to disconnect iPhone (in the display window) eject your iPhone from iTunes using the eject button next to the iPhone logo, then physically disconnect the cable.

10.6 clean install / poor UI performance

Firstly, my spec:
MBP (early 08) 2.4ghz / 4gb RAM / GeForce 8600M GT 256mb / 250gb HD
I did a clean install of 10.6 on this machine and everything went smoothly until I started to actually use the thing. The first thing I noticed was the jerkiness of Expose, Spaces and animated Finder preferences. Truly shocking. I noticed this immediately as there certainly was no issue with my previous 10.5.8 install. I also notice, although not all the time, that there are glitches in the UI when you double click a HD icon on the desktop. The only way I can describe this is that during the very first frame of the animation when the 'zooming' window is at it's smallest, it 'sticks' for a split second then zooms to it's full size. This doesn't happen all the time and I can't find a way of forcing it to happen.
I'm really bothered by this as the OS certainly doesn't feel polished to me - rather - it feels jerky and unresponsive on what I consider to be quite a good spec machine. This is driven home even more so by the fact that the previous incarnation, 10.5.8 has given me no problem whatsoever. I could have, maybe, expected to experience some weirdness if I was upgrading an existing install, but on a fresh, clean install certainly not.
I have played with the Quartz Debug tool to try and isolate whether or not this is a Quartz rendering issue and disabling beam-sync (a well known hack) actually makes performance even worse.
I'm starting to feel very uneasy about this release and will be resorting to cloning back my 10.5.8 install from my backup drive until Apple sort this out.
Very poor.

No need to wait. Get a bootable, external HD (preferably FireWire, since it's 40-50% faster than USB 2 and designed for data transfers), make a bootable backup/clone before updating/upgrading, and ensure that it's bootable and works like the original. That allows you to revert to the previous good state without having to reinstall anything. See these for details:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106941
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/installswupdates.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/backuprecovery.html
Additionally, you can also examine what might be broken in SL and boot into either.

Tweens to multiple locations

i was on this page:
http://www.alumiiinium.com/about.html
and was wondering how it is possible to make a tween between each
of the objects. specifically, you click a button and it slides from
object 1 to object 3, but if you go back to object 1 then to click
on object 9, it slides aswell like there is a tween. a way i can
think of making this possible is by making a tween animation with
every combination of clickable items, like a tween from picture 1
to 2, 1 to 3, 1 to 4... 2 to 1, 2 to 3... and so on, with 10^2
combinations.
another way would be to do it with code. example: on (press)
{filmstrip._x=950}, but this way it would just pop to its spot
without a sliding animation.
what is the most efficient way to go about making and coding
something similar like on this page?

probably done using a single function that is called with
parameters for a given button. function takes parameters to control
the speed factor of the tween, the distance traveled etc. Then you
could just use the Tween class to move the object the proper
distance. this way, you don't need to handle every possible tween
possible on a case by case basis which would make the file size
astronomical.

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