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I'm having problems with the 'SetRotation' script action when publishing to Flex. I'm using Opus 9.01 but have also tried reverting to 8.12. Latest Adobe Player is installed. The problems are:

1. If I publish to a target Flash player higher than v6 the browser freezes.
2. Using target v6, no matter what combination of parameters I use, the final angle of the object is alway 'zero'.

Can someone else test the attached or confirm if they experience the same issue?

Hi Glen

I had a play and found the following;

1. There is no information in the help file about the Adobe Flash swf html publish options (Inline, Popup or No html)

2. Publishing in ver 9.02 with target version 6 and running in a ff browser causes the box object to rotate 360 degree counterclockwise once, not clockwise. Script parameters are obviously ignored.

3. Publish in target version 7 and you get the following



Followed by an Adobe crash report screen screen inviting comments.

4. Publication crashes in every target version above 6 as you say.

5. Opus help does say that roll, spin and skew actions are now supported. Are you sure rotate is supported?


6. If you delete the script and use the rotate animation action, the publication works using FF and target version 10.6.

http://www.sundry.asciimanor.net/index.html I will leave this link for a day or so for you to test.

New imp file attached

Hope this helps

Cheers

Graham

not answering your question but just for a laugh here's a bit of flex rotation...

http://macsnapper.com/flash/clock.htm

Graham - thanks for the thorough testing, which seems to confirm the issue. The rotation action option will not meet my needs, as I want to use a variable-based angle value - hence the use of the scripted command.

Mac - V nice clock!! - but is it using action based rotations or scripted values? If the latter, it seems at odds with my issue. Can you clarify?

Glen,

Have you tried putting the script inside some other object's Std Actions? That way you might be able to get creative with the timing and the triggers. You might try that object initially disabled, then enable (or Show) it.

Otherwise, according to the help files: opusscripts in flex return immediately.

Lar

Thanks for the suggestion but no improvement. The test publication uses a fixed parameter of 45 degrees (in the finished pub this would be a variable). As Graham observed, the object "myImage" merely rotates a full circle counter-clockwise over 5 seconds. The SetRotation command is listed as supported for a Flex publication in the help file.

Script in the test pub is as follows: myImage.SetRotation(45,true,5.0,false).

I'm beginning to suspect it's a bug?

Glen
I wrote a script to set the initial position of the clock face components- e.g. 'minutes' object (a frame) which contains the vectors to draw the minute hand: minutes.Rotate(minangle,0.0)
The rotation after the minutes.Rotate occurs is done by an on show rotate action.

here is my script- don't know if it helps...

var myDate = new Date()
var currHour = myDate.getHours()
var currMins = myDate.getMinutes()
var currSecs = myDate.getSeconds()
minangle=currMins*6
secangle=currSecs*60
if (currHour > 12)
{currHour = currHour-12
}
currHour = currHour+(currMins/60)
hourangle=currHour*30
hours.Rotate(hourangle,0.0)
minutes.Rotate(minangle,0.0)
seconds.Rotate(secangle,0.0)

Mac

Thanks. I have swopped to the 'Rotate' command in order to move on.

I will report the SetRotation issue to DW as I suspect it's a bug (or non-functional in Flex, despite the Help documentation)