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WARNING: "Make FLV" feature is now (for me) recording ENTIRE screen, not just Connect video!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:59:18 GMT

Folks, the title says it all. I've been using Connect for years, but suddenly I am finding that when I use the feature on a recorded meeting to "make flv", it not only records the meeting video but ANY WINDOW I MAY VIEW ON MY COMPUTER while that make flv recording is processing.

Now, I do not see others complaining about this, so perhaps there's some combination of factors that makes it happen for me and not others. But maybe they just have not noticed it. I had always feared this for years, but when I checked it never happened, until I notice it happening now in recordings I've made in recent days.

You can see a real example of this issue, in the following dropbox video. In just the first 10 seconds, you can see both the windows task bar at the bottom and me switching to other windows, all recorded.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/73bv90reic9d5sb/Speaker%20panel_Into%20the%20Box%20Conference.fl v

This is devastating, because I post these recordings on the web after the meeting. If I had not noticed it, I might have viewed sensitive email, password files, etc, while recording. And you can see the Connect meeting recording from which I was using the "make flv" here: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p6vtmdknx1n/ . There is clearly no windows desktop being recorded in that meeting. What you see in the FLV above is from when I was MAKING the flv, which is the terrible problem.

If it's somehow limited to me, I'll be happy just to solve it for me and be glad for others, but can anyone from Adobe help here?

And if you (fellow Connect users) DO make recordings, you may want to do a test and confirm if it's working as expected for you (recording ONLY the connect video and nothing else on your computer). It will be interesting to hear what combination of factors may cause this to happen and when it changed.

I'm not aware of any change in my hardware or software to effect this, but perhaps there's been a change on the server? My connect meetings are hosted by Adobe, at https://experts.adobeconnect.com. I am creating the recordings on the same Windows 7 machine I have for years, and the Flash player shows being 14.0.0.145, and I'm using Chrome as my browser. If I start my meeting and choose the help>About option, it reports Connect 9.2.2, and the add-in as WIN 11.9.970.233.

Any help appreciated, and hope it may also help others if they may have the same problem.

Message was edited by: Charlie Arehart Tweaked title to indicate more clearly that this is happening "for me", at least, and also changed the URL where I said my recordings are hosted. I originally gave the URL for my meeting room, rather than where the recordings are. Of course, one needs to login (and have a login) to see those recordings. I just wanted to show anyone who would help that my Connect account is indeed hosted by Adobe, FWIW.

Message was edited by: Charlie Arehart Added link to the original Connect recording, so folks can see that the info in the FLV is NOT from the original Connect meeting recording.

solving problem of select mode being "hand tool" by default

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 02:34:31 GMT

I'm not asking a question but sharing an answer in case it may help others in the future. I've been running Reader XI for a while, and before that X and IX. I don't know when it started happening, but I found that when I'd open PDFs, I could not select text. What I found at my mouse cursor was the "hand tool", not the "select tool". I did learn eventually that I could right-click and choose one versus the other. But I was frustrated to have to always do that.

After some more digging, I realized that the problem is (I suppose) due to the fact that I'm on a touchscreen PC.I noticed that in Reader's Preferences>General>Touch Mode, the default setting (for this system) was "auto-detect". Out of desperation (and since I rarely use the touchscreen but do often need to select text in my PDFs), I changed the value to "never".

Sure enough, I now get the select tool as the default when I open my PDFs.

Hurray! Hope that may help someone else.

OT: Did you know you can change your profile to show your real name, rather than just your Adobe ID?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:27:31 GMT

I realize this is off-topic for this particular forum, but I hope it may help some readers. Since this forum is "where I live" in the Adobe forums, I wanted top share it here first. Perhaps after some feedback to refine things, I may post it elsewhere (another forum perhaps, and/or my blog).

As I was answering a question from someone, finding myself again able only to refer to them by their brief Adobe ID (which often seems to have no connection at all to their name), I wondered:

Do people realize that they can change their forum identity so that their real name (or whatever other identifying info) shows up rather than just their brief Adobe ID? It's just that some folks would much prefer "talking" with someone by refer to them by their real name (or at least something more than just their Adobe ID).:-)

I suppose some may choose intentionally to remain “relatively anonymous” with just that ID to identify them, but I think many more simply don't know that they *can* change what's shown. You can. But it seems we can't do it inside the forums software itself.

Instead, we just need to modify our "Adobe account" to associate a name with our ID (which of course could have benefit in other places where our names might be used).

You can do by going to https://www.adobe.com/account.html, then choose “My Information” (and login if prompted). Then, on the page shown, under the section “My Personal Profile” you can fill in the first and last name fields. (You can also your password here, and it seems even your username.)

It may be possible that after making that change, you would need to sign out and back into the forums (forums.adobe.com) for the change to be picked up, but if it is, you should then see "Welcome [your name]" in the top right corner of the forums page, if it's worked.

And now any forum messages you create should have that name at the top of the message when people read it, and it would also be in the FROM address if people receive it as email (note we're NOT talking about your email address. That is never shown. If people reply to forum messages received by email, the reply goes back to a generic forum email address.)

Hope all that's helpful to someone.

BTW, I had done the change myself a long time ago, so I'm retracing these steps now for others to do it. If you try it and can confirm that it works, please drop a note here. Thanks.

More clarification needed that two main labs pages are for both CF10 and CFB 2.0.1

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:40:44 GMT

Is this the right place to bring up a suggestion for changes to be considered for the text of pages here on the labs site? If so, I want to point out both a problem and a simple solution for Adobe to consider about the labs pages for CF 10 and CFB 2.01.

As some may have noticed, the two products have been lumped together as one. I get the reasoning, but there are a couple of practical problems with this approach, and some simple text tweaks would help.

First, consider the main page:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusion10/

The title and header suggest this is a page only about CF 10, not CFB also.

Sure, there's a sentence at the end of the first paragraph with a link to the CFB content at the bottom of the page, but one could really easily miss that. So someone given the link to this page as being "about" CFB may be confused. It would help if it was more clear at the top (in the title/headers) that this one page covers both products.

Second, consider the release notes page (which again is one page for both products):

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_10

Here, too, the top of the page says only that it's about CF10, and starts discussing it with no mention at all of the CFB content at the bottom of the page. Again, someone sent here for CFB may be confused.

Now, if they look on the right, they *may* notice that CFB is listed as a second section in the table of contents. But that really doesn't stand out well. Here too the simple solution is to add just a little more clarification at the top of this page, to make it more clear that it is about both products, could help a lot.

Finally, another unfortunate outcome of this approach is that someone wanting to share links to these pages for the CFB content really has to think to add the needed anchors:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusion10/#coldfusion_builder

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_10#Adobe_ColdFusion_Builder_2.0.1_.28Twist er.29_Beta_Release_Notes

But how many will bother? (And that second link, besides being really ugly, will be no good if/when there's another point release for Twister, so it seems it should be simplified if to be shared.)

I do realize it's probably too late to debate the two product being truly separate in labs with their own pages, and I appreciate that there's real value in them being considered together, of course.

But I wanted to point out these practical problems, and the seemingly simple solutions, in the hopes they could be addressed early before too many are confused.

PS Since the release notes page is a wiki page, I'll point out that the "discussion" tab for it says to bring up potential changes to it here, so technically this is the right place to discuss page content at least for that page, if not also the main labs page.

broken links on the labs front page, in the "community" tab

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:48:05 GMT

On the front page of the labs site (the one page for CF10 and CFB 2.0.1, http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusion10/), there are 2 broken links in the "community" tab at the bottom of the page. The links in the first section, "Online Forum" try to link to the forums, with these bad links (note the unneeded /coldfusion10 in each):

http://forums.adobe.com/community/labs/coldfusion10/coldfusion10/

http://forums.adobe.com/community/labs/coldfusion10/coldfusionbuilder201/

If someone corrects this, I hope they will indicate that here, so that readers don't wonder what I'm referring to if they see this later, and it's been fixed. :-)

And to be clear, I'm NOT referring to the correct link to the forums, in the "download and discuss" pod on the right of the main body. That has a correct URL, though it goes only to the CF10 forum, not the CFB one.

Anyone else notice the Connect Mobile app is no longer on ITunes?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:25:46 GMT

Folks, this is odd: the Connect Mobile App is no longer on itunes. The link that used to take you there (http://itunes.apple.com/si/app/adobe-connect-mobile/id338279127) now causes an error to popup in itunes:

Your request could not be completed. The item you've requested is not currently available in the US store.

Yet I had visited the link just last week I thought (I share it with people often). And I know I just got an itunes update to the app (1.0.4) on my phone just in the past couple of days.

Anyone know what's up?

CFBuilder supported on OSX 10.4 (tiger)?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:44:53 GMT

Should we expect CFBuilder to work with Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger)?

I can get it to install, and open, but when I try to open a file it crashes.

FWIW, technically, it's the opening with the "Adobe CFML editor", as configured by default to handle CFM files, which is where it crashes. If I open a file with the text editor, it opens ok (but of course it loses many features). For those not familiar, it you right-click on a file, you'll see the option to choose which editor to use to open a file.

I've searched the forums (including prerelease) and find no discussion of this: I do see that the system requirements lists 10.5 (Leopard). So is that a hard and fast rule? And we who have not updated can't run it at all? Or if it should work, and mine is anomaly, is there anything that would be known not to work compared to those running on 10.5? whether specific to CFBuilder or just Eclipse, if anyonw knows?

after meeting ends, it's "on hold" if URL is used. must I really delete it?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:01:56 GMT

Greetings, folks. Can someone help me determine how long meetings remain "on hold" once ended? I visited the URL of a meeting whose start time and duration would suggest that the meeting is ended. I had created the meeting, and did end it. Do I have to delete it for it to no longer respond as "on hold"? Is there no way to leave it in "my meetings" for historical purposes, but mark it as "ended"?

In my case, if it's significant, I had created the meeting for a one on one presentation and choose not to add the participant to an invitation list and instead used the option "anyone can use the URL". Since only he would know it, and it was set to only last one hour, and I'd be in it that entire time, it seemed perfectly safe.

But now if he (or somehow anyone else) tried the URL again, it seems that long after the meeting they're told it's "on hold". I don't want to have such a misunderstanding.

And yes, I did visit the URL not from within my breeze meeting list but rather on another machine. Any thoughts? Thanks.

Should we expect the Visual jQuery view to work?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:30:40 GMT

I've noticed there's a Visual jQuery view in CFBuilder (window>show view>other>Visual jQuery).Should we expect it to work?

When I open it, it just doesn't seem to work. If one looks at the site of the same name (http://visualjquery.com/), we see how it should work.

We can drill down into things to select them, but those don't respond in the CFB view. And there is also an alphabet list at the top to select things, but that doesn't appear in the CFB view. Finally, the CFB view refers to it as jQuery 1.3.2, but the web site refers to 1.2.6.

Any thoughts?

Don't try to wing it! Read/view the many resources to get started

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:34:23 GMT

Great to see Bolt..er..CFBuilder finally released for all the world to enjoy.

As these forums open now, let me be the first to point something out: it's so tempting to just dive into new software and assume/hope you can just "figure it out". Whether you're new to Eclipse or are coming from CFEclipse, it really will pay tremendous dividends (as well as cut down on questions here) if you would check out the many resources to help get you started.

First up is the manual/help for CFBuilder (available in both html and pdf form). At least skim them, but if you take the time to look you'll find there's a lot there both for those transitioning other from editors like Dreamweaver, HomeSite, and CF Studio (for whom Eclipse is new), as well as those coming from CFEclipse and/or Flex/FlashBuilder (for whom the Eclipse base is natural). Both audiences can find information to help them become more comfortable (what's familiar, what's different), as well as to learn new features not previously available in the other editor(s).

Finally, don't miss that there are also several additional getting started resources, both printed and in video form, offered on the CFBuilder front page on labs. Look closely at both the "Getting Started" and "Community" tabs at the bottom of that page, each of which list different resources suited to getting you started. And the docs, and eventually more articles, will also let you go deeper than just getting started.

Don't try to wing it, though. Check out these resources as the best way to get you going with checking out Bolt, regardless of your level of experience with Eclipse-based editors. Hope that's helpful.

PS As long as we're discussing getting started resources, I'll have still another that I will announce soon on my blog. Especially If you're transitioning from older CFML editors to CFBuilder, you'll want to follow my CFBuilder category there or the corresponding RSS feed for the category.

questions about applying 3.5 JDBC update

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:17:13 GMT

Referring to the JDBC updater at http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=42dcb10a, I have a few questions/observations for others who have run it or may consider it, and they apply to 7 and 6.1 users. Did you notice the update. and the various features it adds? More on them in a moment.

It's listed at the top of the CF Support Center's "top technotes" ( http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/), so it seem very relevant. I'm just surprised i've not heard more about it.

First, is it needed for 7.02? It doesn't say so (but it appears to be from Oct 2005 which could explain that). While it may seem we should presume it was included in 7.02, I think not. Some features it adds (below) are not in the C:\CFusionMX7\lib\macromedia_drivers.jar (whose date is also from 2004, at least on my 7.02 install.)

Second, as for 6.1, it's not clear but do we need to apply it if we have the latest 6.1 updater (6,1,0,83762 )? Again that build's macromedia_drivers.jar also lacks some of the files added by this updater, so I would assume so. I applied the update to my CFMX 6.1 updater release including also the important updating of the Sequelink ODBC Server as indicated in the technote. Don't miss that, if you're running on 6.1 (not needed on 7). After restarting, things are working.

[ I should note that I did find that suddenly my CF5 server (also running on this same dev box) suddenly, and for the first time ever since this box was created a few months ago, started raging with a persistent 55% cpu utilization for ntconsolejava.exe.I certainly would have assumed that the problem was in my CFMX 6.1 services, but by process of elimination it was the stopping of "ColdFusion Management Repository Server" (from CF5) that did the trick. That runs a JRun instance in the CF5 server. I can't see how this would be connected, but I point it out in case it happens to others. I don't know what to do about it. I may just stop my CF5 server until I ever need it. I suppose I cuold also just set the management service to manual. I don't recall what the mgt service did in CF5. A quick review of the docs shows it had to do with archiving and admin reporting.]

But perhaps more important, as for the features it adds, did anyone notice the " sql server nt authentication" it enables? It seems that would solve a useful problem, but I could not get it to work. I followed all the steps including extracting the DLL (it's in the zip) and creating an "other" datasource type with the provided "authenticationmethod" in the JDBC URL. Has it worked for anyone?

Note also the interesting new spy feature, which can provide some useful diagnostics (think SQL Profiler, but for any DB and all the info tracked in a log file on the CF server). I was able to get it working successfully with a SQL Server database (using the "other datasource type" as explained in the technote), but when I tried to add it to an odbc dsn against an Access DB, using the connection string approach listed, nothing happened (no spy log created, until I used the "other datasource approach).

Note as well that the updates offer various fixes for SQL Server, Oracle, and Informix. It's also an update that pure JRun 4 users can/should run. I will point out that one blogger has found a change in behavior regarding multiple statements on a single SQL line: http://www.feed-squirrel.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/6/8/CREATE-TABLE-from-CF-7.

I'd be curious to hear what others have experienced.

/charlie
http://www.carehart.org/blog/

getting date only from rss feed's pubDate

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:22:08 GMT

Folks, if you look at the RSSReader demo (or try creating your own reader of RSS feeds), you'll see that the pubDate coming in has the date and time and also the GMT offset. I'm sure some would like to strip out the offset. i'd also sometimes like just the date.

Is there any built-in Spry mechanism to help with that? Have I missed it? Or must we resert to some sort of JS coding?

Problem with Data Set Explorer

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 02:59:18 GMT

In case anyone experiences this, I'll point out some observations (and ask for help) regarding the error "failed to get schema", that you may get running the dataset explorer example (Spry_P1_1_06-08\samples\DataSetExplorer.html).

The bottom line seems that a) it can't run via a web server, b) it can't make a request of an XML dataset from the server (such as from a CFML file), and further, c) even when the page is run via the file system, when it says it wants a "relative path" for the XML URL, it really means it. Let me explain. (And if there's some larger Spry issue I'm just not aware of that explains this, I'd welcome hearing of it.)

I found I was getting the error, first, even when just getting the sample XML file provided, if I tried to run the sample page via a web server (IIS in my example).

In other words, if the spry directory is within my c:\inetpub\wwwroot, then if I run the sample as:

http://127.0.0.1/Spry_P1_1_06-08/samples/DataSetExplorer.html

it fails when I try to get the sample XML file (regardless of whether I leave the the URL field pointing to ../demos/gallery/galleries/china/photos.xml or I change it to http://127.0.0.1/Spry_P1_1_06-08/demos/gallery/galleries/china/photos.xml.

The solution is (or at least, no error occurs) If I instead browse the sample as simply:

file:///C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/Spry_P1_1_06-08/samples/DataSetExplorer.html

Even then, though, it also fails with the same error if the URL for the file to load is requested via a web server. That may make sense, given the JS security limitation to only request files from the same server that served the loading page. (Technically, to the browser, a page loaded from the file system could consider a localhost URL for the XML file to be "another" server.)

But that doesn't explain the first error above, where the page and the xml file are attempted to be loaded from the web server. And all this means that we can't run the sample to get its data from a CFML or other server page sending up XML (even from the same server).

Anyone have thoughts?