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‎Jan 31, 2018
01:34 PM
Okay. Thanks Jeff.
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‎Jan 31, 2018
01:09 PM
yeah. Which takes me to: ConvertKit Subscription. You're officially confirmed and on the list. Expect some great emails headed your way very soon. To be perfectly frank, one of the last things I want in the world is great emails.
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‎Jan 31, 2018
12:58 PM
signed up tbut there was no link
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‎Jan 31, 2018
06:38 AM
I'll check into that. Robohelp happens to be one of those programs I have little experience with and wasn't sure what you could do with it.
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‎Jan 31, 2018
06:07 AM
How would one going about creating a graphical navigational interface for a framemaker digital project? Working on a thick technical manual that I realize can be boiled down to a trouble-shooting flowchart. This would be a great navigational device where the user could hop to where they needed to go at a glance. Was going to build it in Adobe Animate or some other project, exporting training manual sections from frame maker and embedding them or linking to them in the Animate project. Wasn't thrilled by the results. Was clunky, pages had to load in and out, very inefficient. So now I'm wondering if I could go the other way, if I could build a graphical navigation interface and import that into framemaker. The goal is to make the interface as simple and clean as possible...though in the same token it's not something as simple as a couple hotspots. Does anyone know of resources, sites, examples of anyone who's done something similar to what I'm describing?
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‎Oct 12, 2017
05:27 AM
Kglad, Built a test project based on the bitmap approach you suggested. Also experimented around with svg files, but decided that they were too big so went back to the bitmap. In my travels, I also built one test that fired up pop up browser windows of manual sections, which had been exported as html5 responsive files, using: this.But52.addEventListener("click", fl_MouseClickHandler_5.bind(this)); function fl_MouseClickHandler_5() { window.open("52/Responsive HTML5/index.html", "_blank", "top=100", "height=200,width=800"); } So I have my main diagnostics test folder, inside of which would be main html file, and inside of that main folder there'd be a series of individual folders for each section. While I'm still working through some bugs this other approach seems to be working, though only on my test machine.
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‎Oct 11, 2017
06:30 AM
thanks kglad, that did it!
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‎Oct 10, 2017
01:42 PM
sorry. canvas/html5.
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‎Oct 10, 2017
12:42 PM
...jump to frame labels based on what the user selects in the combobox dropdown component. Found the "combobox selection change event" code snippet but am at a loss with what to put inside the brackets. Also, I'm noticing a weird quirk with the combox on the stage. When I first select a value, it works fine, drops down like you'd expect. However when I select any value other than the top one, the combobox with drop up, meaning that the options will open up above the combobox. Not sure if this is a bug or if I'm missing something. here.
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‎Oct 10, 2017
08:27 AM
I'm trying to publish a series of short documents through the responsive html5 setting in the publishing pod. When I test the output the default stretches the content across the entire width of the screen when viewed on a computer, which looks horrible and is tough reading. Is there any setting where the default would scale to content so that when the window first opened the default layout have the aspect ratio of the original framemaker document, or the printed page.
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‎Oct 05, 2017
05:55 AM
alright. Thanks again, guys. I'll throw together a project, and see how bad it blogs. If there's issues, than I'll look into the sequential thing you're talking about.
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‎Oct 04, 2017
11:18 AM
Was using html canvas (versus flash swf). Should probably have mentioned that.
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‎Oct 04, 2017
09:37 AM
With that in mind, would you load and unload them into movie clips as needed?
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‎Oct 04, 2017
08:08 AM
thanks kglad!
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‎Oct 04, 2017
07:45 AM
Okay, thanks. Hadn't thought of that. For this project there might be a pretty good volume of pages involved. Not sure right now becasue I'm trying to cutail it, but am thinking could be up to a hundred. Would having all these pages loaded into the project be burdensome on performance? Similiar to your method, anotherr approach would be to copy and paste the information into Animate. Could keep it in the original vector art, which might be advantagous. Had gotten hung up on loading in html pages of xml files (which I know amazingly little about) that hadn't thought of this until you mentioned the cut and paste.
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‎Oct 04, 2017
05:48 AM
Trying to wrap my head about how to go about launching pages from a technical manual in Animate. There'd be a button. You click on that button and within animate a frame would come up showing that content. The content would be a section produced in Framemaker or InDesign and might include illustrations or tables and while I'd try to keep it tight, could be up to a couple pages long. Between the Framemaker and InDesign there're many different formats to choose from to export in. HTML, PDF, XML, etc. Wasn't sure which route to go, or how to go about it. For example do you swap the content in and out of animate, calling it from an accompanying directory of xml or html files? I'm sure this is a common practice, people must be doing what I'm describing all the time, but was having a hard time finding resources that would step through the process.
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‎Sep 29, 2017
07:33 AM
Looking for advice/resources/suggestions on how a guy would go about producing an interactive encyclopedia or technical manual ap from framemaker files for all devices. I'm imagining an interactive interface that would organize the sections graphically rather than your standard layout. For example, for a repair manual all the sections could be organized or housed within a graphic image of the product that would allow the user to touch/click on some part of that product and up would come that section of the manual. Years ago I had done something along this line in Flash, but this strictly for laptop and not all that robust. Was no where near the volume of material that I'd be looking at now. Was thinking about doing the same thing in Adobe Animate, which is basically HTML5 Flash, loading up Html files produced by Framemaker whenever anyone clicks on them, but wasn't sure if this was the right product for the job. Is there another approach I should be looking at?
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‎Sep 28, 2017
06:37 AM
Was building an interface for a trouble-shooting ap for a piece of equipment. The dream was that at any step in a flow chart you could select/touch a step and learn more information. Adobe Animate seemed like it would be perfect for something like this. However, now it was asked of me if you can do that, why can't you just jam the whole technical manual in there? For example, the guy wants to learn more about a particular step, he'd click/touch that step and up would come that section from the operator's manual. Would be cool, but wasn't sure how you'd go about this. While I was initially thinking laptop, assume that this would be a mobile ap. First of all I guess the question would have to be asked if Adobe Animate was the right tool for the job, or is there another approach that you'd recommend? Right now the manual is a framemaker file, which I know can export responsive html content. I was picturing using Adobe Animate to load in and out these html files at the user's whim, but am wondering if I'm trying to get animate to do something it wasn't intended to or if this is completely off-base. Any insight would be great. Or if anyone had seen any tutorials or information online that talked about what I was trying to pull that would help as well.
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‎Sep 19, 2017
08:25 AM
Do you pay a hefty price in terms of performance/hthml5 size for all those keyframes, or does it still make for a fairly lean file?
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‎Sep 19, 2017
07:02 AM
Colin, Worked beautifully. Little tedious but very clean. Thanks!
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‎Sep 19, 2017
04:17 AM
I'll give that a try. Any tricks to do I consistently so it's smooth action? Not sure how practical this will be given the volume of wires I'm talking about (it's a circuitboard), but once you get into the groove might be okay. Was hoping that there would be some feature buried in here that'd do it automatically. I come form 3d where lofting along the percent of a path is routine. However, the method I had scaling movie clips with motion tweens was an utter disaster.
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‎Sep 18, 2017
01:48 PM
Anyone have any suggestions on the best way to go about animating a self-drawing line that takes several corners. Trying to build an animation illustrating flow of electricity through a circuit which takes a very irregular, almost maze-like path. Wasn't sure how to go about doing this. Had been trying to motion tween it, but that was impractical. Best way I figured out was to make a movie clip out of each straight leg of the circuit. Animate that growing. Then when the electricity takes a turn, make another movie clip on the next layer. And so on until the entire circuit is lit up. In addition to being rather tedious, it's unmanageable because of the number of wires and the layers required for each. My other idea was a mask layer, but the shape the circuit takes is so weird I wasn't able to figure out a mask shape that I'd be able to move around create the effect of the wire growing on the layer underneath. It's almost like I need to be able to record a brush stroke on a layer and mask with that. Is there any feature in animate that I'm missing that would allow me to pull this off.
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‎Sep 15, 2017
11:26 AM
so, now did that have the same issue that you were seeing in your movie?
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‎Sep 15, 2017
07:20 AM
yea, that's what I have too. HTML canvas. the handle variable name is "handle", and the circuit variable name is "circuit"?
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‎Sep 15, 2017
04:12 AM
If you had wanted to troubleshoot further, the code I had used is bellow. Most of this came from your earlier thread that I hopped onto, the only real difference was I was going horizontal. the handle is 9.6 wide. Thought that maybe you could quick throw this into a dummy movie and see if you got the same offset. Like I said I'm getting no offset whatsoever. Works perfect. var handleDistance = 4.8; var bounds = {x:24 , y:542, width: 598, height:0}; var sliderBoundary = new createjs.Shape(); sliderBoundary.graphics.beginStroke("#999") .setStrokeStyle(2) .drawRect(bounds.x, bounds.y, bounds.width, bounds.height); this.stage.addChild(sliderBoundary); paramF(this.handle, 19, 0, 630, this.circuit.totalFrames-1); this.handle.addEventListener("pressmove", fl_MouseClickHandler_2.bind(this)); function fl_MouseClickHandler_2(evt){ var p=this.globalToLocal(evt.stageX, evt.stageY); evt.currentTarget.x = Math.max(bounds.x + handleDistance, Math.min(bounds.x + bounds.width - handleDistance, p.x)); this.circuit.gotoAndStop(Math.round(this.handle.m*this.handle.x+this.handle.b)); } this.handle.y = 390; this.handle.x = (bounds.x + bounds.width)/ 2; this.stage.addEventListener("tick", moveslider.bind(this)); function moveslider(){ this.handle.x=(this.circuit.currentFrame-this.handle.b)/this.handle.m; } function paramF(mc,x1,y1,x2,y2){ mc.m=(y1-y2)/(x1-x2); mc.b=y1-mc.m*x1 }
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‎Sep 14, 2017
08:37 AM
There's that little cross that you align the movie clip to by modify/align/align to stage. But in addition there's the rotation point that you can move around when you go into free transform mode and then can center with the object. Not sure if that would make any difference, but it's something to try.
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‎Sep 14, 2017
08:20 AM
Keeyley Double check your registration point and the central point on your movieclip. After solving that wild hopping action I was getting when going fullscreen, I saw what you meant. There was a bit of a gap between the two. I centered the movie clip to the moviecip stage and then realigned the rotation spot to the center of the handle and now it's working perfectly.
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‎Sep 14, 2017
06:51 AM
If anyone runs into the issue I was having, what was happening was that the stage was scaling but the mouse coordinates weren't. The fix was: var p=this.globalToLocal(evt.stageX, evt.stageY); this.handle.addEventListener("pressmove", fl_MouseClickHandler_2.bind(this)); function fl_MouseClickHandler_2(evt){ var p=this.globalToLocal(evt.stageX, evt.stageY); evt.currentTarget.x = Math.max(bounds.x + handleDistance, Math.min(bounds.x + bounds.width - handleDistance, p.x)); // evt.currentTarget.x = Math.max(bounds.x + evt.currentTarget.regX, // Math.min(bounds.x + bounds.width - handleDistance + evt.currentTarget.regX, evt.stageX)); this.circuit.gotoAndStop(Math.round(this.handle.m*this.handle.x+this.handle.b)); }
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‎Sep 13, 2017
11:13 AM
yea, I'm pretty sure that's what's going on -- the slider's getting lost when you change the size of the screen to anything but the original size. how do you correct for offset?
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‎Sep 13, 2017
11:00 AM
Hm. After much experimentation, I think that I've isolated my problem down to when I publish as responsive/scale to fit. When I test with this feature off the scrollbar works fine. But if I test with Responsive/scale to fit, the slider will pop to the right of the mouse when I increase the size of the screen, and then to the left of the mouse when I shrink I down.
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