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I’ve been working on a project that leverages the new Flex Text Layout Framework (currently in beta) and have been trying to figure out how to add a decent scroll bar to the container.  There isn’t much documentation on this, so here’s my approach.

Background
The Text Layout Framework is nominally structured using the classic MVC approach.  The View is called the text flow container.  The controller, the text flow itself, updates the view and sends out the CompositionCompleteEvent.COMPOSITION_COMPLETE event.  This is what we’ll be using to update the vertical scroll bar, as each time the event is fired, something has changed in the view that may require the scroll bar to change position or size.

This article assumes you are familiar with Flex and the Text Layout Framework, and have a working TLF setup already coded.  I’ll be posting a future beginner’s tutorial on TLF, so stay tuned.

Step 1: Add listener
The first thing we’ll need to do is add the correct listener for the CompisitionCompleteEvent in the startup function of your text flow.  Assuming its called _textFlow, you can add the listener like this:

_textFlow.addEventListener(CompositionCompleteEvent.COMPOSITION_COMPLETE, setupScrollBar);

Step 2: Setting up the Scrollbar
Next you’ll need to add the scrollbar to your MXML layout somewhere.  Here’s a simple example:

<mx:VScrollBar id="scroll" height="{textContainer.height}" scroll="scrollListener(event)"/>

Next, you’ll want to add the setupScrollBar function to initialize the scroll bar when the composition is changed:

private function setupScrollBar(event:CompositionCompleteEvent):void {
     var textHeight:int = Math.ceil(_controller.getContentBounds().height);
     var oldPos:Number = _controller.verticalScrollPosition;

     if (textHeight < _controller.compositionHeight) {
         scroll.enabled = false;
     } else {
         scroll.enabled = true;
         scroll.minScrollPosition = 0;
         scroll.maxScrollPosition = textHeight - _controller.compositionHeight;
         scroll.lineScrollSize = 20;
         scroll.pageSize = _controller.compositionHeight;
     }
     _controller.verticalScrollPosition = oldPos;
}

Let’s walk through what this does.  First, the function computes the total height of all the text, including text that isn’t displayed in the container.  Next, it saves the old scroll position so it is remembered when the scrollbar redraws.  Next, the function checks if the total height of all the text (the textHeight variable) is less than the height of the TLF container (_controller.compositionHeight).  If it is less than, there is no text to scroll and the scroll bar is disabled.  Otherwise, there is text to scroll and the scroll bar is enabled and the initial values are set.

Next we set the scrollbar properties: the scrollbar needs to know four things: the minimum position to scroll to, the maximum position to scroll to, the line scroll size (to determine how far to scroll when the arrow buttons are clicked), and the page size of the content to compute the length of the thumb bar.  Here, we set the maximum scroll position to be the remaining number of pixels that aren’t displayed and the page height to be the height of the container.

Step 3: Add the ScrollBar handler functions
Everytime the scroll bar has been interacted with, it will need to update the view container accordingly, and vice versa.  To do that, we’ll need to create the scrollListener function referenced in the ScrollBar MXML tag:

private function scrollListener(event:mx.events.ScrollEvent):void {
    _textFlow.removeEventListener(ScrollEvent.SCROLL, scrollTextFlow);
    _controller.verticalScrollPosition = event.position;
    _textFlow.addEventListener(ScrollEvent.SCROLL, scrollTextFlow);
}

private function scrollTextFlow(event:TextLayoutEvent):void {
    scroll.removeEventListener(mx.events.ScrollEvent.SCROLL, scrollListener);
    scroll.scrollPosition = Math.ceil(_controller.verticalScrollPosition);
    scroll.addEventListener(TextLayoutEvent.SCROLL, scrollListener);
}

The first function sets the container scroll position to the scroll bar position, as contained in event.  This function also sets the listener for the container to scroll the scroll bar to the correct position when the container location is scrolled, usually through selecting text.

I was going through new avatars to use on the HikiCulture forums on a near-daily basis without finding feeling full contentment with any of the ones I had used; today though, I found the perfect one:

I had thought about Final Fantasy whilst daydreaming today; I think it's because I long to play another game from the series. While thinking about Final Fantasy (which I am extremely fond of), I thought of Moogles (the name of the creature from Final Fantasy that is in my avatar.)

I decided to add my HikiCulture user-name "Chair" to the bottom-right corner of the avatar to make it somewhat more unique. The typeface I used for "Chair" is the same font and shade of blue (partially) that I had used for the HikiCulture logo.

My new avatar finally makes me feel contentment.

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En medio de la larga pelea de muchos años entre Adobe y Apple surge el siempre y archi conocido Microsoft.

Aprovechando que entre las mismas no encuentran un punto de equilibrio para implementar el tan solicitado Adobe Flash por los usuarios de iPhone, Brian Goldfarb, Microsoft User Experience Platform Manager, en el reciente PDC 2009 hizo una demostración de streaming de video H.264 mediante Silverlight en un iPhone.

La gente de Betanews lo entrevisto y le preguntaron sobre la forma en que consiguieron que esto funcione, la respuesta fue simple “Estamos trabajando con Apple”.

Microsoft se ha encargado de realizar todo, siguiendo las reglas puestas con Apple y lograron hacer que Silverlight ejecute en los dispositivos Apple. Todo el trabajo se hace al lado del servidor, IIS Media Services; los usuarios solo tienen que activar la compatibilidad con el iPhone.

Según Goldfarb, esto ha sido realizado a solicitud de los clientes de Microsoft “El iPhone es un escenario único. Hablamos con nuestros clientes y han solicitado disponer de sus contenidos en el dispositivo”

“So we’ve worked with Apple to create a server-side based solution with IIS Media Services,” Goldfarb continued, “and what we’re doing is taking content that’s encoded for smooth streaming and enabling the content owner to say, ‘I want to enable the iPhone.’ The server will dynamically make the content work — same content, same point of origin — on the iPhone. We do this with the HTML 5 tag, in many ways.”

Thursday September 3rd, 2009

Nando’s action. 8:26pm.

Friday September 4th, 2009

Those crazy Christian pedophiles. Where’s the subtlety?? 2:03pm.

Elm St. 2:04pm.

A very long process…. 7:21pm.

…disrupted without an explanation. Pure horror. 7:40pm.

I finally had a burnt DVD of the above project at 1:29am.

Tuesday September 8th, 2009

Getting ready… 5:46pm.

Thursday September 10th, 2009

Tree concealed by pumpkin soup. 4:25pm.

Saturday September 12th, 2009

All Day I Dream About Subways. 9:58pm.

Scabby feet. 11:41pm.

Monday September 14th, 2009

5:03pm.

Found this near my bin. Vintage VHS. 6:02pm.

Sunday September 20th, 2009

Misplaced door. 7:20pm.

Friday September 25th, 2009

Best way to end the working week. 4:30pm.

Saturday September 26th, 2009

Rain in the tracks of Flinders St. station. Last Train Blues. 1:11am.

O Adobe AIR permite trazer para o desktop aplicações web e widgets. A grande vantagem nisso é ele ser cross-plataform, ou seja, aplicações desenvolvidas para ele podem rodar em qualquer sistema operacional (Linux, Mac OS e Windows).

1. Baixe o Adobe AIR;
2. Coloque o arquivo na Pasta Pessoal (Locais > Pasta Pessoal);
3. Abra o terminal e execute a seguinte linha de comando:

chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

4. Em seguida execute essa linha de comando :

sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

De agora para frente é só CONCORDOR, eperar instalar e CONCLUIR.

Agora os arquivos .air podem ser abertos tranquilamente.

Fonte : Sizlopedia

I’ve already written a post regarding the importance of your online Personal Brand, and I even included a link to my Personal Brand presentation. We’ve been discussing them in our Social Media class, and several students have shown their presentations to the class. The resulting discussion inspired me to create more of a niche within my class. What makes me unique among the peers that I will graduate with? I believe it is my design skills and interest in fine art, so I’m going to be focussing more on these topics on my Twitter and this blog.

My Twitter feed will feature an ongoing list of Design Tips. These tips will be relevant to public relations students and can be exercised  when putting together basic reports and assignments. I believe it will also prepare them (you?) for more advanced design programs such as Adobe Illustrator.

I’ll be sure to compile the Design Tips and post them here periodically.

stephwereley.

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If you’re using a webcam such as Logitech, Microsoft, Creative etc. You want to make sure you have installed the drivers properly to your computer. If you’re using a mac you will have to figure out how to install your web cam to your mac.  Then once your cam is connect, either the webcam software will pop-up and it will show your cam connected. If you’re using a mac and your not able to use a webcam or video device on your mac to test your camera is connect you can go to the website www.testmycam.com.

The website www.testmycam.com is all good to make sure your computer and web cam is ready to use for broadcasting on your web cam site and to test out lighting and your microphone or you can log into your model log-in page for your web cam site and test it in there before you go live in your adult video chat room.  Another method of testing if your web cam is connected to your computer is by opening an instant messenger platform Skype, MSN, Yahoo whatever you have on your computer. You would go into the web cam settings or audio/video settings you do not need to chat with anyone to test your web cam unless you want to.

You always want to make sure you have a good video card installed in your computer. You should have determine this when your purchase your computer. If you do not have one you can get them installed easily.  Now if you’re using a video camera and you want to turn it into a video web cam there is a lot more options involved. If your not really interested in learning some technical stuff then getting a webcam is your best bet for now.

Connecting with a RCA cables is probably the simplest way to turn your video camera into a video webcam. Every video camera comes with RCA cables, because they are used to connect to so many things your VCR, Television, and even your computer. If your camera does not come with RCA cables then you want to look around to see if you can buy one that is compatible to your video camera.  The manufacture website usually has them, or look on eBay for it.  If you’re wondering what the RCA cables are they are the cables that are red, yellow and white. Picture on the left .

Connecting with a  S-Video cable is another easy way to connect your video camera to your computer. If your computer comes with an S-video port and your camera has an S-video cable you can connect your camera. I personally haven’t tried this myself I usually go with connecting with RCA cables. Your camera might not come with the S-video cable but they usually have them for sale on the manufacture website.  Picture on the right

There is many ways to connect using the RCA cables one of them being directly into the back of your desktop computer usually if they have the video capture card built in, or you can buy one and install it yourself. Osprey makes capture cards which are easy to find anywhere you might find others around. You plug in your RCA yellow cable into the capture card and it will recognize your video camera is plugged in. Another method if your not able to get a capture card installed or if your using a laptop you can buy an external one they are called usb video capture devices; Dazzle, Roxio and Diamond Multimedia make one. The video capture cards that go into your computer are also called tv-turners, but since they have made so many external video capture cards it might be easier to get an external one then an internal one.

Connecting with a fire wire cable is also pretty easy to connect with. You want to check out if your camera can connects with a fire wire cable some video camera do not have a fire wire option. Once you find that out you can use a fire wire cable to connect to your computer. Easily just make your computer supports it to connect using a fire wire.

Connecting with USB cable some video cameras come with a USB cable for the Sony HC-62 video camera the usb cable is the same cable that connects to blackberries So you might be in luck to try if it works for your blackberry and your video camera.  Apparently it’s an universal cable so you could save a bundle if you have one for more than one device. You can also connect your video camera to your computer using the usb cable as well if your usb cable is too short to reach your computer. You can also get USB extension cables usually these days usb cables are version 2.0 also keep in mind some video camera do not turn into a video webcam using the usb cable. I found out that the Sony Hc62 does not

Para fechar oficialmente o ano de 2009, vai rolar uma edição do curso Lightroom Profissional no IIF, aqui em Sampa, nos dias 14 e 15/12.

Serão 16 horas de aula, voltadas ao estudo de todos os recursos do Lightroom, além de dicas para facilitar o uso cotidiano do software e uma olhadinha no Lightroom 3, que está em pleno desenvolvimento!

Review, Accolades, and a Bug

Disclaimer: This review is based solely upon my curiosity and thirst for knowledge. No bribes, coercion, reward, discount, or product has been offered. I claim no connection to Adobe and Lightroom other than the use of their products and have no personal connection to any individuals mentioned in this review. I refrained from reading any other reviews to maintain objectivity and freedom from outside influences.

As a new convert to Lightroom 2 (LR2), for post-processing images, I learned to use the product through trial and error along with instruction on the Adobe Lightroom 2 Learning Center, tips and tricks found through Twitter postings, and working through The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers (Paperback), by Scott Kelby.

Excited to learn what Lightroom 3 BETA (LR3), has to offer, I read the list of upgraded features, based on user requests,  posted by Victoria Brampton, aka The Lightroom Queen, a member of the Lightroom Team at Adobe.  I played my way down this list gaining a feel for the features found missing, wanted, or needed in LR2. Knowing you are not interested in a play-by-play commentary, I  listed the features I favored, the one bug I encountered, and conclude with my overall impression of the product.

v  Image Quality

• Improved

v  Performance

• Clear previews in thumbnail grid

v  Program opening

• Backup window moved to program exit

v  Import

• New easy to use page with panels
• Visible selections
• Right-click folder selections

v  Library

• Publish and Sync to Flickr and hard drive

v  Develop

• Noise reduction improvements
• New Edge Detail slider
• Sharpening visible at less than 1:1
• New Effects panel
• Crop choices

v  Print

• Custom layouts
• Drag and drop
• Background color

v  Watermarking

• Allowed in all functions

BUG:

While testing different export features, a few original (test) files were lost. Poof! Vanished! Completely disappeared! I did not change the folder name, move it, or touch anything else. I finished with my post-processing and saved changes to original images. Then, I attempted to export images back to the original folder….the window popped up saying it could not find the originals and I selected OK. Closed LR3, re-opened…… Cannot find Originals! What?  I hunted, searched, scoured the computer, every folder, gone.. Previews still show up and I cannot do anything with them. Cannot save new jpeg’s, edit, or print.

So, of course, since this is testing; I repeated the experiment with new test images…nothing bad happened. Images were all there… I more than likely failed to click on the use new names instead of overwrite however, tried this both ways here and in LR2. No loss….. a fluke? I don’t know. I searched the Lightroom forum, one other person had asked the same thing about LR2. That got my attention however, only found answers about having moved the folder or some other action. Nope that is not what happened. Folder is still in the same place with the same name, it’s just empty!

Conclusion:

Overall, I am impressed with previously unknown, missing and needed upgrades, and look forward to the future release of Lightroom 3. This was an exceptional learning experience and I commend Adobe for actively listening to the users and transforming the input into simple, friendly, and powerful features.

If any of you can solve the missing images issue, or enlighten me on how to save something usable from previews, in case this happens again, I would appreciate your advice.

Please feel free to comment.

Signing off,

Go2Grl

بعد از ارائه نسخه iPhone از نرم افزار محبوب فتوشاپ (تقریبا یک ماه قبل)، شرکت عظیم Adobe نسخه‌ای را هم برای موبایل اندرویدگوگل به بازار ارائه داده است. این نسخه که با تمامی مدل‌های gPhone موجود سازگاری دارد به کاربر اجازه ویرایش و به اشتراک‌گذاری عکس‌ها را می‌دهد. همچنین کاربر می‌تواند از 2 گیگابایت فضای رایگان سرویس Adobe’s online استفاده نماید.

برخی از امکانات این نسخه عبارت است از:

• بردین، چرخاندن و تصحیح رنگ‌ها با استفاده از لمس صفحه
• تغییر فوکوس یا سیاه و سفید کردن تصاویر فقط با یک کلیک
• وجود مرورگر عکس برای مشاهده عکس‌های آنلاین

برای کسب اطلاعات بیشتر می‌توانید این ویدئو را مشاهده نمایید.

El formato PDF es el estándar mas difundido para publicar documentos listos para ser impresos y leidos en pantalla. A diferencia de otros ficheros, PDF encapsula graficos y fuentes para que se vean igual en cualquier ordenador.

Adobe Reader es el lector oficial de ficheros PDF. Compatible con el estandar PDF 1.7 y anteriores, Adobe Reader te permite visualizar los documentos en la mayoria de navegadores o usando el lector por separado.

El punto fuerte de Adobe Reader es la potencia de sus herramientas, con las cuales puedes moverte con facilidad por las paginas, seleccionar texto o imagenes, asi como sacar instantaneas al portapapeles.

Especial cuidado se ha puesto en la accesibilidad. Adobe Reader no solo soporta la lectura a pantalla completa, sino que cuenta con una lupa integrada, compatibilidad con lectura en voz alta y un asistente de accesibilidad con el que Adobe Reader ayuda a hacer mas legibles los documentos para quienes tengan problemas de vision.

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Post Office, Cabezon by Evangeline Chavez

The village was started in the 1870’s and was originally called Posta, (the post),  It was the focal point for farming and raising sheep. It was also a stage stop between Santa Fe and the military outpost at Fort Wingate. It quickly grew with the mandatory saloons, blacksmith shop, stores.  Richard Heller ran the Heller Store and post office for a good many years.  Cabezon flourished  until the 1940’s. Mr. Heller died in 1947, and the Rio Puerco dried up. The post office officially closed in 1949

Iglesia San Jose de Cabezon by Evangeline Chavez

Iglesia San Jose de Cabezon, originally built in 1894, is now on private land.  It is open to the public during the year for a mass in honor of San Jose. In the background you can see Cabezone Peak.  Cabezone Peak is derived from the Spanish noun “cabeza,” meaning “head,” and “Cabezon” translates as “big head.

]]> http://graphixthatmove.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/last-minute-web-concept/ Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:59:07 +0000 steve http://graphixthatmove.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/last-minute-web-concept/

I almost forget to mention this one. Aside from the last six webpage concepts I created, I was asked to produce a seventh. To give this project a challenge, it had to be pushed in less than twenty-four hours. This wasn’t too difficult a challenge but I do appreciate when I have at least a forty-eight hour window.

Lately I have been working on a few webpage concepts for the Radioactive Energy Drink. I have created a set of six designs over the past three-and-a-half weeks. Each set was designed in Photoshop with a final copy as both JPG and PNG files. I did not find anything task too difficult while designing these concepts. I take that back; I did have a compression issue. I am not able to compress the raw PSD file small enough to send via email. However, the JPG and PNG files were sent with ease. Now it is a matter of waiting for client approval.

My partner for the last 13 years is a graphic designer (and an excellent photographer to boot). As you may imagine, over the years, I’ve watched him use a successive number of Adobe products. I even periodically got cast offs myself – e.g., floating around on my system I’ve got a first generation InDesign that I had been working on my book in for a while.

One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that it doesn’t matter how fast his systems are, the one thing that will generally slow them down are Adobe products. The only time this isn’t the case is when he has 10GB of RAM or more.

But this isn’t just limited to the “pro” Adobe products. So when John Nack over at Adobe had the gall to say that Adobe are “sensitive to bloat”, I couldn’t believe that anyone from Adobe could say that with a straight face.

For goodness sakes, even Acrobat Reader, the absolute (should be minimalist) stable horse of Adobe is bloated and slow. It’s practically zombie-esque. You launch it and it staggers out of its directory/crypt, shakes off the spider webs, looks around for some fresh brains to snack on, begrudgingly brings up a window, freezes for a little while in case there’s a zombie hunter around, then eventually opens the requested document.

Then there’s Flash. That travesty of an animation product that’s actually electronic tar. You know what I do when I see a vendor using Flash for something I need to do? I clear my calendar. I quit every app I have to give the memory leaking sucker enough room to work for a while before crashing, then I sit and wait for it to do its best at trashing my systems. Honestly, the best speed up I got with web browsing was when I installed ClickToFlash for Safari. It makes web browsing a dream, and means I can actually go to the Sydney Morning Herald without 6-10 flash apps starting every time I go to the front page*. It’s amazing the number of sites you can go to and have a smooth clean web browsing experience when you’ve got Flash turned off.

There’s no excuse for such tired and frumpy software. Anyone with a Mac for instance will tell you how quickly Apple’s Preview launches and starts displaying PDFs. On the rare instances where you have to, for some esoteric compatibility reason, open Acrobat Reader instead, well, you want to go fix yourself a coffee while you wait for it to load.

Honestly, Adobe should maybe spend a year or two demanding that developers stop adding code and functionality, and instead learn some lessons and start subtracting code.

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* SMH would undoubtedly argue that it’s a “Mac problem”. Honestly, much as I love that paper, it’s so anti-Apple that it’s a wonder someone hasn’t founded a Journalistic Bias Awards just to give them the inaugural golden bong for to celebrate whatever crap they smoke before they write stories about Apple. They make that insidious piece of online garbage, The Inquirer, look fair and balanced a lot of the time!

When one first gets introduced to Adobe InDesign, the program can seem quite complicated.  There are so many different little actions that can be done that even the simplest of things can easily be forgotten or confused with other actions.  What I would like to explain to you is how to put color in a shape as well as put color on the border.

1.)  First, Open Adobe InDesign

2.)  Then Create a new document

3.)  Select a shape from the toolbar on the left (rectangle, ellipse, or polygon tool)

4.)  Go to the bottom of the tool bar and double flick “fill” (It will be a white square with a red diagonal line through the center)

5.)  A box will appear with a multitude of colors.  Use this to choose the color for your shape

****To Put Color on the Outline of a Shape:

1.)  Double click “stroke” (which will be to the right of the “fill” tool–it is a square with a black line around it)

And there you go!  You have put color within an object and learned how to change the color of the outline of the object!

While these are simple steps, it is always helpful to have a reminder in the little process of things within these types of programs.