UILoader Component's coordinate( Movement) problem

Hi All
In my program I am allowing user to drag and drop Video
thumbnails on the main stage. The UIComponent is loading external
SWF as soon as user drops video on the main screen. Also the user
can successfully drag and drop the opened video pane (which is
UILoader Component) wherever he wants on the screen.
My problem is that when user drop the UIComponent on the main
screen, the dropped UIComponenet moves little bit from the mouse
position.
I used the code that on
stopDrag,UILoader.move(MouseX,MouseY). But it did not work
because the stage is taking UILoader's top left corner as MouseX
and MouseY and move UILoader's top left corner to the cursor
position. I came up with tricky solution in which I use on
stopDrag,UILoader.move(MouseX-200,MouseY-200). This solution
was little better in my case but that's not exactly what i want
because this solution is giving inconsistent and inaccurate
results.
Does anyone has better solution? I just need that if user
stops dragging the UILoader Component , the Component should be
placed on the coordinates wherever he/she left the mouse cursor.
I will appreciate any kind of help
Thanks a lot.
Anuj

Dear Jeevan,
I assign one operation to external processing by control Key - PP02.
When i create production order , PR is generated for the external operation.
In this when , i see COOIS report at component level , qty withdrawn shown as zero.
But when i relesae PR to PO for the external opertaion , there is qty shown in qty withdrawn column ( Same as qty required ) ?? in COOIS report.
But i have not issue any qty, than why there is qty shown in qty withdrawn column.
Regards
Vin

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After many different forum searches, I still can't find the
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I'm trying to use the UILoader component that creates an
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Without using AS, in the parameter box for the "container" placed
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Thanks for your fast response, dzedward.
Here goes...I hope you'll bear with me. Since I don't know
what type of background info you need, I'll explain in detail.
Background:
I'm creating a flash presentation that we can display on a
large monitor at a tradeshow. The presentation will simply play
from a connected laptop and loop, without the need for user
navigation (no buttons). This is my first time creating such a long
file (I anticipate that this will play for 3-4 minutes straight) so
I thought it would be best if the main timeline were to call and
load successive smaller, stand-alone swfs at selected times, based
as the playhead moves through the timeline in a single pass. I'd be
able to minimize the size of the main file in this way.
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As a newbie, I don't have much experience with AS3. Using an
AS3 script found online I've been able to load a single swf into
the timeline of my main movie successfully, but when I try to load
another later on in the main timeline, neither swf plays....most of
the scripts and forum answers I've come across over this past few
days deal with AS2 or earlier versions, so I can't use or learn
from them.
Using the UILoader Widget:
Thats when I saw reference to using Flash CS3's UILoader
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menu). What it does is create an empty container into which you can
load an external swf, jpg, or png file. You first simply drag and
drop the widget onto the stage from the component window. Then,
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placement on the stage. Via the container's parameter window you
tell it whether to autoload the content, maintain aspect ratio,
and/or scale the content, as well as provide the name of the source
file you want to load. It seems pretty simple - even I can do it
and can get it to work when I load a jpg or selected swf file. Upon
testing the movie, the jpg or swf plays back INSIDE the container,
scaled down or up based on the container's size as it relates to
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You'll see from this widget that you only need to specify
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content questions. I've done this inside the widget as I'm not sure
how to accomplish this with the scaleContent and scaleAspectRatio
parameters you mention using actionscript.
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grows in size and changes shape against a black background, using
the same frame rate (30fps)_and dimensions as my main movie. The
animation is a simple shape tween, with no actionscript other than
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misunderstood what I read). I did try this however, and while doing
so allowed me to more correctly center the external animation
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I don't know if this explanation will make anymore sense. I
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during playback of the short animation inside of my main flash file
you can provide me with your address and feel that it would help.
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It is not necessary to use a cloning utiity to move/copy OS 9 to a different volume or drive, and have it be usable. OS 9 can be installed -
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• Or by doing a simple Finder copy of it - drag the OS 9 Syatem Folder (and its associated folders, such as Applications (Mac OS 9) and Documents) to the target volume and let go, letting Finder copy it there.
Usually a copied OS 9 System Folder is usable immediately.
Occasionally it will arrive unblessed - it will not display the Mac OS glyph on top of the folder icon. The solution for that is to re-bless it. This can be done one of two ways (best done while booted to OS 9) -
• Open the System Folder, double-click the file System to open it. Close System; close the System Folder.
• Drag the files Finder and System out of the System Folder; close the System Folder. Drop the files Finder and System back into the closed System Folder.

Jittery MC movement problem with AS 2.0

Pardon me if this is a simple, obvious thing that I'm missing, but I'm out of options after searching all over the place for an answer. I'm having trouble with something that used to work fine for me in previous versions of Flash (MX and CS3), but now that I'm updating my website using CS4, I'm encountering a problem, that didn't exist before.
I'm trying to slide a movie clip that contains buttons horizontally at varying speed based on the distance from the middle of the screen. Everything worked fine when I did it years ago, but the movement of the sliding MC now is very jittery. Even old versions of my website when loaded into CS4 appear jittery even though they didn't years ago.
I tried everything I could think of....
1. increasing the fps from 30 to 60 or higher
2. publishing at various settings: player version, AS version, hardware acceleration, etc.
3. placing all images/MCs on round numbers instead of floats
4. changing the _quality setting to "BEST"
So I boiled the problem down to its most basic element, I took everything out and created a single MC with two images on it moving to the right via onClipEvent in the following code embedded in the MC:
onClipEvent(load) {
_quality = "BEST";
onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
this._x +=2;
Both images and the MC are on round numbers and the _x increment is a round number: 2. 30 fps, published as Flash 8, AS 2.0, saved as a CS4 .FLA document. Image smoothing is on.
Here is a link to the exported sample:
paullewis.us/test/index.html
If you watch the clip, wait until the photos go out of frame... at some point, the movement will be jittery.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have some nice, new photos I'd like to add to my site and this problem is driving me crazy! Thank you.

kglad,
I'm seeing the same hesitating horizontal movement on your clip that I'm seeing on mine. I checked using Firefox and IE, and am running both on 64-bit Windows 7 with the most recent Flash version (10.1.102.64). I thought that it could be some issue with my video driver/card/settings so I also checked my .SWF on a Windows XP machine and saw the same jittery movement.
When you view your clip, does it appear 100% fluid, no hestiation?
Thanks!
Paul

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Ok I bought The Dark Knight off of itunes, and i want to put it on my ipod. This is the first movie i have bought off of itunes. How come the movie wont download to my ipod touch??

ok cancle this i found my problem and it was pretty simple!!

IPad, component video, and movies in HD?

I have an iPad 2 that I connect to my TV with a component video breakout--I know that an HDMI breakout is available, but I originally bought the component breakout to use with an iPod Classic and, well, it works with the iPad 2.
When I connect the iPad 2 to the TV, the TV says the connection is via 480p. Given this, is there any merit to paying the extra $1 to rent a movie in HD, or will SD be equally as good at this resolution?
Thanks!

I have it figured out; please disregard the question. Thanks!

Avi, mpeg and mov problems

I`m having no luck playing streamed .avi, mpg and .mov ( all video) files.
The avi and mpeg video files freeze up upon start up and only show the first second of the video for the first 5-10 minutes. After that they play fine although with no sound. They also play and sound fine after being downloaded and then opened.
The mov files only show the sliding bar or , after being saved , the blank QT screen with the bar sliding and no sound.
Also , the QT "intro" on apple.com/quicktime (the timberlake video) refuses to play properly, it just comes in very "blocky" with only occasional sound bits getting through. The same can be said about some avi files, when they do work.
I have flip4mac , divix, 3vix, xvid installed. Tried perian but that completely killed all streaming avi playback , just a Q with ? mark. Downloaded AC3 codec and put in the QT folder. no luck.
These are the sites in question.
http://www.justintimberlake.com/QuickTime/justintimberlakeqt.html
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/1568/videos/riki_discovers.mov
Couldn`t find any avi movies to use as an example.
Last question. Is there a way to automaticaly stream avi and mpg files in the same QT screen as wmv and asf files?
thank you and sorry about the long post.
imac intel core2duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Try VLC media player regarding playing .avi files.
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I had no problems playing the Timberlake video. However, when I tried to play your second link (.mov) all I got was the bar, no audio or video.
Regarding your 1st link, have you tried repairing permissions & restarting?
Regarding your 2nd link: Apparently, it's a bad video link & no fault of yours or your computer.
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"Is there a way to automaticaly stream avi and mpg files in the same QT screen as wmv and asf files?"
The following is a work-around for .avi files. Not sure if it will also work for .mpg files.
Open the file with QuickTime Player.
Open the Movie Info window (Command-i).
Note the name of the video codec used in the file.
Do a Google.com search for codec name +Mac and download one appropriate for your OS and computer.
Quit and relaunch QuickTime after installing the new codec.
Try the file again.
Thanks to QuickTimeKirk for the above info.
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Regarding no audio sometimes................
If repairing permissions does not work, then try the following:
KB article - No sound from some applications, but system alert sounds play (Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4)
Another trick: If you have GarageBand installed, open it and then quit.

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When you hit a link to a YouTube movie on the iPhone, it will open the movie in mobile Safari. Movies wouldn't play and I got a black blank movie on the page with an error message saying that I needed to download Flash. This error message seems to be inaccurate. I fixed the problem by clearing cache and cookies in Settings/Safari. I don't know why that fixed it but not having Flash had nothing to do with why the movie wouldn't play - at least that's the way it appears to me. The error response from mobile Safari is just wrong. Note that the same movie played OK on the mobile YouTube app, but email links to YouTube don't call the YouTube mobile app
Also, Apple's mobile YouTube app "Sharing" function is limited and doesn't tap into the real power of YouTube sharing (Facebook, Twitter etc.). It only allows you to share by sending the link in an email. This makes for a lot of extra work to share a video to friends. Perhaps they'll expand the sharing function in a future update to the app.
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