What's the best way to coordinate loading multiple modules.

I have a number of resource modules that I'd like to load before loading my main UI module.
I'm doing this now, but to make sure that everything loaded OK, I need to have a chain of Event.COMPLETE callbacks for every resource module load.
In other (threaded) languages, I'd set a flag and run a wait on my main loop before loading the UI module.
Is there a good compact way to wait for n modules to load in Flex?

I don't think you need a chain if load order doesn't matter. Just keep a
Dictionary of them and remove them from the Dictionary as they load. Then
run a quick test of the Dictionary has any items left.

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Probably each cover page is different too. I would probably just bite the bullet and do each individually. I would create the 2 cover pages in WORD or other word processor and print to cover.pdf. Then open a PDF and Pages>Insert Pages or the cover.pdf to the front of the open PDF and save as to the current PDF. Then repeat 299 times. Each time you would make the appropriate change to the DOC file and print a new cover.pdf file (you might want to turn off open in Acrobat for this processing in the printer properties to save time). Probably a good idea to keep a list of the files to check off what has been done (you can generate a list in DOS by Start>cmd, change the directory to your location [cd path], and do "dir >>list.txt". That will give you a list to use.). There may be an easier way, but by the time you get it figured out you might be done this way.

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one drawback of same Apple ID for store is that what she downloads will automatically appear on all devices
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I think something like this should be a simple way to display media such as these commercials, but I still haven't found a working solution. Now I'm wondering if I'm even approaching this wisely.
Would it be better to convert the swf to flv and create an flv player that has 'continuous play' and 'shuffle' features? Would it be better to convert each swf into movieclips and put them all into one swf? (I like the manageability of using an external xml file; I will be adding and removing commercials frequently and want to keep this as simple as possible.)
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Peace,
Trevor

Thanks again kglad,
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What is the best way to switch between multiple image buffers? AND How to synchronize saves?

Hello,
I'm trying to flip-flop between two buffers and wondering the best possible solution for this. I'd like to acquire an image in one buffer, send that off to be processed, and then while that's being processed acquire a second image. Right now I have a "Create IMAQ vi" in a for loop and have it creating 10 image locations. I'm using a non-NI framegrabber (shame I know) which makes things a bit more difficult to replicate. I have two while loops. One while loop currently grabs images from the framegrabber and places in the 10 different locations. The other while loop currently holds a case structure that does the processing. I have created a local variable that holds all of the image locations and reads those to be processed. I don't know if this is actually making things faster or if it's better to just make one image location.
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The problem though is the following:
In the grabwhileloop.png, you can see that I have a timing to see how fast the images are being acquired. This value is approximately 60 fps (which is the rate of the Basler camera). There is a similar set up in the main loop case structure. This processes very slowly and is approximately 1.04 fps. Which would mean that the image I turn into an array in the left case structure in the main while loop image is more than likely different than the image I'm trying to save off in the right case structure since the grab is occurring at the same time. I'd like to have the processed image to save alongside the image I am processing.
Sorry for the big bulk of text. This code has come a long way as it is. If you have any suggestions on making it faster or more efficient please feel free to chime in.
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Rob
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