Need help with basics

Greetings,
After installing 10.4.6, some of the system fonts seem to have changed, and for the life of me, I can't find where I go to change them back. They are affecting multiple apps & Finder. Anyone?

I'm not too familiar with fonts, however, in the User Tip Library are several good Font tips which many have been able to use. This is the most current one:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=122011&tstart=0

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Need help with basic program.....!

I've to write a program that generates a random number, which the user has to try and guess, after each guess they're told whether it's too high or too low etc., I've gotten this far, however, the user has only 10 guesses.... In my program I've used a while loop and the user gets an infinite number of guesses, I know I'm supposed to use a for loop, but can't seem to get it to work properly. Also, when the user guesses the number, the program then has to print out how many guesses it took, and I have no idea how to get it to do this AT ALL!!! I'd really appreciate some help with this, thanks v. much!!!!

I've to write a program that generates a random
number, which the user has to try and guess, after
each guess they're told whether it's too high or too
low etc., I've gotten this far, however, the user has
only 10 guesses.... In my program I've used a while
loop and the user gets an infinite number of guesses,
I know I'm supposed to use a for loop, but can't seem
to get it to work properly. Also, when the user
guesses the number, the program then has to print out
how many guesses it took, and I have no idea how to
get it to do this AT ALL!!! I'd really appreciate some
help with this, thanks v. much!!!!Hey not every book covers every aspect of Java (if you haven't got a book and don't want to buy 1 i recommend an online tutorial) If u want the user to have an infinate number of guesses, use an infinate while loop. Put this in a file called app.java:
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class app extends Applet implements ActionListener
     JLabel lbl=new JLabel("Guess a number between 0 and 10:");
     JTextField txtfield=new JTextField(20);
     JButton button=new JButton("Guess...");
     JLabel lbl2=new JLabel();
     int randomnumber=Math.round((float)Math.random()*10);
     public void init()
          add(lbl);
          add(txtfield);
          add(button);
          button.addActionListener(this);
     public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent e)
          String s=new String("");
          s+=randomnumber;
          if (e.getSource().equals(button) && txtfield.getText().equals(s))
               setBackground(Color.white);
               setForeground(Color.black);
               lbl2.setText("Got it!");
               add(lbl2);
               validate();
          else
               setBackground(Color.white);
               setForeground(Color.black);
               if (Integer.parseInt(txtfield.getText())>randomnumber)
               lbl2.setText("Too High!");
               else
               lbl2.setText("Too Low!");
               add(lbl2);
               validate();
Then create a HTML document in the classes folder:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>APPLET</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<HR>
<CENTER>
<APPLET
     CODE=app.class
     WIDTH=400
     HEIGHT=200 >
</APPLET>
</CENTER>
<HR>
</BODY>
</HTML>
It will do what you wish. If you want to have more then 10 numbers to guess, for example 100, do this:
int randomnumber=Math.round((float)Math.random()*100);
Does that answer your question?

New to Photoshop (CS4Ext) and need help with basic loading of images to new folder.

Just purchased CS4Ext and installed it. It's not showing up on my desktop as a quick entry icon. I want to simply load images from a portable hard drive (USB) to a new folder in photoshop so I can review them and begin to select and separate out some of interest to manipulate and share or get ready to print. It 's the most basic help one can need butI'm jut not clear on the workflow steps . Would appreciate someone walking me through the steps .
Thanks much

drmjp2 wrote:
Just purchased CS4Ext and installed it. It's not showing up on my desktop as a quick entry icon.
Let's see… First of all, this is the Photoshop Macintosh forum. Installed applications never, ever show up on your desktop as a "quick entry" icon on a Mac. Are you on a Windows PC maybe?
drmjp2 wrote:
I want to simply load images from a portable hard drive (USB) to a new folder in photoshop so I can review them and begin to select and separate out some of interest to manipulate and share or get ready to print.
Just select them with your mouse in the Finder and drag-copy them into the new folder. Done.

Need Help With Basics of SQL

Hey I'm trying to get a working understanding of some of the basics behind SQL, I've composed a few questions that I think may help me with this. Anyone that can help me with any of them will greatly help me thanks.
1. How to create synonym for tables?
2. How to describe the structure of tables?
3. How to list the contents of tables?
4. How to create a table named with the same structure as another table?
5. How to copy rows with less than a certain criteria in value (e.g. Price<$5.00) into another table?
6. How to change the data type to e.g. NUMBER(6)?
7. How to add a new column named with data type e.g. VARCHAR2(10)?
8. How to change a specific field within a table (e.g. For ORDER_NUMBER 12489, change the C_NUMBER to 315)?
9. How to delete a specific row from a table?
10. How to declare a column as the primary key of a table and call it e.g. PK_something?
11. How to show certain columns when another column is less than a certain criteria in value (e.g. Price<$5.00)?
12. How to show certain columns with another column having a certain item class e.g. HW or AP?
13. How to list certain columns when another column e.g. price is between two values?
14. How to list certain columns when another column e.g. price is negative?
15. How to use the IN operator to find certain columns (e.g. first and last name of customers who are serviced by a certain ID)
16. How to find certain columns when one of the columns begins with a particular letter (e.g. A)
18. How to list the contents of the a table sorted in ascending order of item class and, within each item class, sorted in descending order of e.g. price?
19. How to do a count of column in a table?
20. How to sum a column and make rename is something?
21. How to do a count of a column in a table (without repeats e.g. if a certain number repeats more than once than to only count it once)?
22. How to use a subquery to find certain fields in columns when the another column’s fields values are greater than e.g. its average price?

848290 wrote:
Hey I'm trying to get a working understanding of some of the basics behind SQL, I've composed a few questions that I think may help me with this. Anyone that can help me with any of them will greatly help me thanks.To use the terminology you have in those questions, you must already have a basic understanding of SQL, so you have exposed yourself as not being the author of such questions.
Please do not ask homework questions without having at least attempted to answer them yourself first and show where you're struggling.

Need help with basic "for" loops!

Here is my prompt for class:
Write a program that prompts the user to enter a sentence from the keyboard using JOptionPane.showInputDialog.
The program will print the characters back with the first letter of each word changed from lower case into upper case. If you have a capital letter in the original line and it is not the first letter of a word, then this letter should be switched from upper case to lower case. The only capital letters that should appear in the line must be the beginning letter of every word in the line. All other characters will remain the same.
I figured everything out except for one part. How do I make the first letter of each word change from lower case into uppercase? How do I switch a letter that is uppercase in the middle of a word to lowercase? Last but not least, how do I make sure that the only capital letters in the sentence are the first letter of each word?
I need to do this using for Loops, charAt(), and if/else statements because this is just an intro class. I just can't figure this last part out! Help please!

String words = ...;
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
char c = words.charAt(i);
boolean isUpper = Character.?(look up the methods in java.lang.Character)
boolean isLetter = ? (there are actually 2 ways to do this. Hint: you can use <= and >= and && to solve this)
if (!isLetter) {
continue;
} else {
// check if this is the start of the word. How do you know that you are at the start of a word?
if (!isUpper && isStartOfTheWord) c = Character.toUpperCase(c); //Hint: there is a way you can do this with x + y
else if (isUpper) //make c lower case
builder.append(c);
return builder.toString();

Really need help with basic static forms?!?!

I was thrown into creating forms for our Business Managers and I am not a developer in any way! I am a Recruiter, but somewhat tech savvy (or at least I thought I was).
I am trying to create basic static forms. I started by using Adobe Professional and them moved to LiveCycle Designer because of what I thought were better "editable" options when creating the form. I want to be able to send my manager's forms via e-mail (PDF), they can enter the requesting information in the fields, save a copy for themselves, print, and e-mail to me. We are not using any of the Adobe Server things, I don't want them to submit via an e-mail button on the form. We are a non-profit organization and my managers are using all different versions of reader.
I am getting extremely frustrated because in testing the form everything seems to be working properly including tab order, print, save and everything I want it to do. Then, I send them out for my managers to use, for some Manager's they work great, no problems at all! But then, I keep getting these weird issues from different Managers with the same form. For one of them, what they typed in the field, now looks like it's behind the text box, like when you select Highlight all, you can see what he typed, but then if you click into the text box, you can see what he typed. Another Manager said, two (crucial) fields would not show the text entered when she tries to save or print, but on screen you can see it????
So after the rambling, I guess my questions are: should I be using Live Cycle to create such basic forms or should I be using Adobe? Can anyone recommend a good "FOR DUMMIES" book that will help me figure out what I am doing wrong, and not explain in "IT" language?
This is really getting embarrassing!! Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!

1. Make sure to set the PDF target version. Goto File -> Form Properties (see the first screenshot attached)
     Find out the minimum Reader version used in your organization and set this value accordingly. If you are not sure, select the least recent version.
2. two (crucial) fields would not show the text entered when she tries to save or print, but on screen you can see it
     This may be due to the visibility settings of the fields. Just make sure that you have selected visible instead of visible (screen only)
     See the second screenshot attached
Hope this may help you.
Nith

Need help with basic Java programming

I'm having a little bit of trouble with my code. For the sake of argument, I've removed the code I'm having trouble with, because I know it was inaccurate. I'm trying to create a loop so that this program will keep going through and through until the user enters an invalid variable. I thought the default after the case statements was supposed to make the system exit and output my message. Those two problems, the loop and the default, are what I'm really having problems with. My code is posted below.
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
public class Retail
public static void main(String args[])
String firstNum;
String secondNum;
String result;
int prodNum; //first number to input
double quantity; //second number to input
double total = 0.0; //total of Prod * Quantity Sold for all items
// To use American Dollar
NumberFormat moneyFormat = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance( Locale.US );
// first number entered as string
firstNum = JOptionPane.showInputDialog( "Enter product number 1-5" );
// second number entered as string
secondNum = JOptionPane.showInputDialog( " Enter quantity of items sold" );
// convert values to type double or int from type string
prodNum = Integer.parseInt( firstNum );
quantity = Double.parseDouble( secondNum);
result="";
if ( prodNum >=1 && prodNum <=5 ) {
switch (prodNum)
case 1: // 1st product
total = 2.98 * quantity;
break;
case 2: // 2nd product
total = 4.50 * quantity;
break;
case 3: // 3rd product
total = 9.98 * quantity;
break;
case 4: //4th product
total = 4.49 * quantity;
break;
case 5:
total = 6.87 * quantity;
break;
default: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, "Wrong product number entered" );
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, moneyFormat.format(total), "Total Price of Items Purchased", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE );
System.exit(0);
***I know I need to put something in the user input message to state that any value other than 1-5 entered will cause the program to skip to the output, I'll put that in later.***

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Need help with basic program - I am new to this

I need to write a very basic code to display my name on the screen as follows
RR OOO
R R O O
R R O O
RR O O
R R O O
R R OOO etc etc etc
to spell out robert
i have no idea where to begin

You need to store the patterns for each letter of the alphabet somewhere - say in an array. You can then read out the patterns to build up strings.
For example:String[][][] letters = new String[][]
{ {"A", " A " ... },
{ "R", "RRRR", "R R", "R R", "RRRR", "R R", "R R"},
}

Need help with basic steps in creating ebook

I have a confession: I constantly use workarounds instead of stopping and learning the proper way of using Indesign to create ebooks. I wouldn't say I do it because I'm lazy, but rather because I'm simply inept lol. These are some of the basic steps I take:
1. create new document: include master text frame (because I want page numbers to show)
2. paste unformatted text into document
3. adjust size of master frame to give text suitable margins (since its an ebook, right/left margins same on opposing pages.)
4. highlight all text, adjust before- and after-paragraph spacing to half of the character leading (so bottom of text is at same point for each page)
5. go to chapter titles; do page-break so title has its own page; highlight title, choose font, size; create new character style; apply style to other chapter titles (is it possible to create a ctrl + number shortcut to apply character styles?). Notice I didn't create a character style for body text. Should I do that first?
6. insert page number markers on both master pages, then cover page number with white box on first page of chapters.
7. drop pictures into textbox so that if more text is added, pictures move with the text.
That's basically what I do when I create an ebook. Any suggestions as to better/proper way to do these things would be very appreciated.

1. Master text frames have nothing to do with page numbers and in most cases are totally unnecessary. Set the margins appropriately and place your text.
2. Without knowing what you're starting with it's impossible to tell if that's a good idea or not. My gut says is it's not. See number 1.
3. See number 1.
4. This is what paragraph styles are for.
5. See number 4.
6. This is what multiple master pages are for. Stop doing that.
7. Well, you finally got one right. As my people would say...mazel tov.
Now, it's time for you stop being inept (your word, not mine) and start learning the right way to do this. First thing you do is buy Sandee Cohen's Visual Quick Start Guide. It's the best InDesign book on the market for beginners. http://amzn.to/plsvxy
Secondly, check out the video training on Lynda.com. This link will get you a free one week trial: http://bit.ly/fcGpiI
Bob

Raw recruit needs help with basic thumbnail

I have searched the help files and the discussion
groups and cannot find a reference to the creation of a thumbnail.
Therefore, I am confident everyone in the world but me knows how to
do that. But I need a thumbnail! How do I make or get or find or
create a thumbnail from a jpeg? Thanks ... Steve

steve63118 wrote:
>
I have searched the help files and the discussion
groups and cannot
> find a reference to the creation of a thumbnail.
Therefore, I am confident
> everyone in the world but me knows how to do that. But I
need a thumbnail! How
> do I make or get or find or create a thumbnail from a
jpeg? Thanks ... Steve
Just resize a copy of the image. Modify > Transform >
Numeric Transform.
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Need help with basic user events in Queued state machine example

I have written a little queued state machine example to try to teach myself about creating and using user events. The objective of the machine is to periodically choose a number (I'm doing it now with a control instead of a random number generator for troubleshooting), and compare that number with the number I have set in a control. When they match, I want to cause an event to fire so I can do something about having found a match. The examples in the LV Help file references show the events within the event structure, but I want to reach out of a state and cause an event ....
Can someone point me in the right direction here?
Thanks
Hummer1
Solved!
Go to Solution.
Attachments:
User Event Generator Example01 snip.png ‏102 KB

Yep....That was it...I had tried to do that but got fouled up with the variant definition...so defined the user event using a boolian and did the same in the case structure where I wanted to create the event and it worked great...
Thanks.
Here is the final version...not bulletproof, but does have a queued state machine using a user event to cause an event to fire.
Hope you find it useful.
Hummer1
Attachments:
User Event Generator Example01.vi ‏45 KB
Operating States Enum Example01.ctl ‏5 KB

Need help with a currently "in-use" form we want to switch to Adobes hosting service

Hi, I am in desperate need of help with some issues concerning several forms which we currently use a paid third party (not Adobe) to host and "re-distribute through email"...Somehow I got charged $14.95 for YOUR service, (signed up for a trial, but never used it)..and now I am paying for a year of use of the similar service which Adobe is in control of. I might want to port my form distribution through Adobe in the hopes of reducing the errors, problems and hassles my customers are experiencing when some of them push our "submit button". (and I guess I am familiar with these somewhat from reading what IS available in here, and I also know that, Adobe is working to alleviate some of these " submit" issues, so let's don't start by going backwards, here) I need solutions now for my issues or I can leave it as is, If Adobe's solution will be no better for my end users...
We used FormsCentral to code these forms and it works for the most part (if the end-user can co-operate, and thats iffy, sometimes), but I need help with how to make it go through your servers (and not the third party folks we use now), Not being cruel or racist here, but your over the phone "support techs" are about horrible & I cannot understand them or work with any of them, so I would definitely need someone who speaks English and can understand the nuances of programming these forms, to please contact me back. (Sorry, but both those attributes will be required to be able to help me, so, no "newbie-interns" or first week trainees are gonna cut it).... If you have anyone who fits the bill on those items and would be willing to help us, please contact me back at your earliest convenience. If we have to communicate here, I will do that & I can submit whatever we need to & to whoever we need to.
I need to get this right and working for the majority of my users and on any platform and OS.
You may certainly call me to talk about this, and I have given my number numerous times to your (expletive deleted) time wasting - recording message thingy. So, If it's not available look it up under [email protected]
(and you will probably get right to me, unlike my and I'm sure most other folks', "Adobe phone-in experiences")
Thank You,
Michael Corman
VinylCouture
Phenix City, Alabama 36869

Well, thanks for writing back...just so you know...I started using Adobe products in 1987, ...yeah...back then...like Illustrator 1 & 9" B&W Macs ...John Warnock's Helvetica's....stuff like that...8.5 x 11 LaserWriters...all that good stuff...I still have some of it working on a mac...much of it was stuff I bought. some stuff I did not...I'm not a big fan of this "cloud" thing Adobe has foisted upon the creatives of the world...which I'm sure you can tell...but the functionality and usefulness of your software can not be disputed, so feel free to do whatever we will continue to pay for, ...I am very impressed with CC PS on the 64 bit PC and perhaps I will end up paying you the stipend that you demand for the other services.
So I guess that brings us to our problem.. a few years back and at the height of the recession and near bankruptcy myself, I was damn lucky and hit on something and began a small arts and crafts supply service to sell my products online to a very "niche market" ...I had a unique product and still sell that product (plus others) online...My website is www.vinylcouture.com...Strange? Yes...but there is a market it seems, for everything now, and this is the market I service...Catagorically, these are 99%+ women that use these "adhesive, sticky backed vinyl products" to make different "craft items" that are just way too various and numerous to go into... generally older women, women who are computer illiterate for the most part...and all this is irrelevant to my problem, but I want you to have every bit of background on this and especially the demographic we are dealing with, so we can get right to the meat of the problem.
OK...So about two years ago, I decided to offer a "plain sheet" product of a plain colored "stick back" vinyl... it is available in multiple quantities of packs ( like 5 pieces, 10 pieces, 15 pieces, in a packi & so on)...and if you are still on my site.. go to any "GO RIGHT TO OUR ORDER PAGE" button, scroll down a little...and then to the "PLAIN VINYL" section...you will see the Weebly website order process.) You can back out from here, I think,..but, anyway this product is available in 63 colors + or - a few. So then the problem is, how do they select their individual colors within that (whatever) pack?... .
So my initial idea was to enable a "selection form" for these "colors" that would be transmitted to me via email as 'part" of the "order process".. We tried getting our customers to submit a " a list" ( something my competitiors still do, lol, poor bastards)......but that..is just unbelievable..I can't even begin to tell you what a freakin' nightmare that was...these people cannot even count to 10, much less any higher... figuring out what colors to list and send me... well, lets just say, it wasn't working......I had to figure out a better way...Something had to be done.
So after thinking this all out, and yeah...due to my total ignorance, i figured that we could make a form with Live Cycle Designer (Now Forms Central)...(back then something that was bundled with Adobe Acrobat Pro), I believe, and thats what this thing was authored in... and it would be all good...LOL!
Well not so simple...as you well know, Adobe Acrobat would NOT LET YOU EMAIL anything from itself.....it just wouldn't work (and I know why, and all that hooey), but not being one to take NO for answer,.I started looking for a way to make my little gizmo work.. So I found this company that said they can "hijack" (re-direct actually) the request to email, bypass the wah-wah, and re-transmit it to the proper parties.....for less than $100 a year, I think...its called http://pdf-fillableforms.com/.
A nice gentleman named Joseph Silva helped us program the thing to go to his servers and back out. Please dont hassle them...I need them...for now..it basically does work...try it...you should get back a copy of the form that you filled out...good luck however, if you're on MAC OSX or similar...
I have included a copy of both of our forms (and feel free to fill it out and play with it)...just put test somewhere on it...(and you must include YOUR email or it will balk)..they are supposed to be mostly identical, except one seems to be twice as large....generating a 1.7 meg file upon submission, while the other one only generates a 600K file or so...thats another issue for another day or maybe you can advise on that also...
OK so far so good......In our shop, once Grandma buys a 10 pack (or whatever), Only then she gets to the link on her receipt page ro the relevant "selection form" ,(this prevents "Filling and Sending" with "no order" and "no payment", another early problem we had)... which they can click on and it will usually download and open up on their device if all goes well...Then our little form is supposed to be fillable and is supposed to ADD UP all the quantities, so grandma knows how many she is buying and so forth right on the fly, and even while she changes her mind..., and IT'S LARGE so grandma can see it, and then it TOTALS it all up for them, ( cause remember, they can NOT add).., except there is a programming bug (mouse-click should be a mouse-up probably or something..) which makes you click in the blank spaces to get to a correct TOTAL...about 70-80% of our customers can enable all these features and usually the process completes without problems for them especially on PC's running Windows OS and Acrobat Reader X or XI...at least for most... Unfortunately it is still not the "seamless process" I would like or had envisioned for the other folks out there that do have trouble using our form.... Many folks report to us the following issues that we know of. First of all it takes too much time to load up...We know its HUGE...is there anyway that you can see, to streamline this thing? I would love for it to be more compact...this really helps on the phones and pads as I'm sure you well know.
Some just tell us,"it WON'T work"....I believe this is because they are totally out of it and dont even have Adobe Reader on their machine, & don't know how to get it ( yes, we provide the links).....or it's some ancient version....no one can stop this one...
It almost always generates some kind ( at least one time) of "error message" which we do warn them about..., telling one, basically that "Acrobat doesnt even like this happening at all, and it could be detrimental to ones computer files", blah-blah...(this freaks grandma out really bad)...& usually they end up not even trying to send it... and then I get calls that even you wouldn't believe...& If they DO nut up and push the Red "Submit Form" button, it will usually send the thing to us (and also back to them at the "required email address" they furnished on the form, thats what the folks at the "fillable forms place" do) so, if it's performing it's functions, why it is having to complain?. What are we doing wrong?....and how can I fix it?...Will re-compiling it or saving it as a newer version of "FormsCentral" correct any of these problems ?
Ok, so that should keep you busy for a minute and we can start out with those problems...but the next thing is, how can I take advantage of YOUR re-direct & hosting services?, And will it get rid of the error messages, and the slowness, and the iOS incompatibilities ? (amazingly, the last iOS Reader version worked almost OK.. but the newest version doesnt seem to work with my form on my iphone4) If it will enable any version of the iOS to send my form correctly and more transparently, then it might be worth the money...$14.95 a MONTH you say. hmmmmm...Better be good.
Another problem is, that I really don't need 5000 forms a month submitted. I think its like 70-100 or less....Got any plans for that? Maybe I'm just not BIG ENOUGH to use Adobe's services, however in this case, I really don't care whose I do use as long as the product works most correctly for my customers as well as us. Like I said, If I'm doing the best I can, I won't change anything, and still use the other third party, If Adobe has a better solution, then i'm all for that as well. In the meantime, Thanks for any help you can provide on this...
Michael Corman
VinylCouture.com
(706) 326-7911

I need help with a VB Application

I need help with building an application and I am on a tight deadline. Below I have included the specifics for what I need the application to do as well as the code that I have completed so far. I am having trouble getting the data input into
the text fields to save to a .txt file. Also, I need validation to ensure that the values entered into the text fields coincide with the field type. I am new to VB so please be gentle. Any help would be appreciated. Thanx
•I need to use the OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog in my application.
•Also, I need to use a structure.
1. The application needs to prompt the user to enter the file name on Form_Load.
2. Also, the app needs to use the AppendText method to write the Employee Data to the text file. My project should allow me to write multiple Employee Data to the same text file. The data should be written to the text file in the following format (comma
delimited)
FirstName, MiddleName, LastName, EmployeeNumber, Department, Telephone, Extension, Email
3. The Department dropdown menu DropDownStyle property should be set so that the user cannot enter inputs that are not in the menu.
Public Class Form1
Dim filename As String
Dim oFile As System.IO.File
Dim oWrite As System.IO.StreamWriter
Dim openFileDialog1 As New OpenFileDialog()
Dim fileLocation As String
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
openFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "c:\"
openFileDialog1.Filter = "Text files (*.txt)|*.txt|All files (*.*)|*.*"
openFileDialog1.FilterIndex = 1
openFileDialog1.RestoreDirectory = True
If openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() = System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
fileLocation = openFileDialog1.FileName
End If
'filename = InputBox("Enter output file name")
'oWrite = oFile.CreateText(filename)
cobDepartment.Items.Add("Accounting")
cobDepartment.Items.Add("Administration")
cobDepartment.Items.Add("Marketing")
cobDepartment.Items.Add("MIS")
cobDepartment.Items.Add("Sales")
End Sub
Private Sub btnSave_Click(ByValsender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSave.Click
'oWrite.WriteLine("Write e file")
oWrite.WriteLine("{0,10}{1,10}{2,10}{3,10}{4,10}{5,10}{6,10}{7,10}", txtFirstname.Text, txtMiddlename.Text, txtLastname.Text, txtEmployee.Text, cobDepartment.SelectedText, txtTelephone.Text, txtExtension.Text, txtEmail.Text)
oWrite.WriteLine()
End Sub
Private Sub btnExit_Click(ByValsender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnExit.Click
oWrite.Close()
End
End Sub
Private Sub btnClear_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnClear.Click
txtFirstname.Text = ""
txtMiddlename.Text = ""
txtLastname.Text = ""
txtEmployee.Text = ""
txtTelephone.Text = ""
txtExtension.Text = ""
txtEmail.Text = ""
cobDepartment.SelectedText = ""
End Sub
End Class

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Need help with Berkeley XML DB Performance

We need help with maximizing performance of our use of Berkeley XML DB. I am filling most of the 29 part question as listed by Oracle's BDB team.
Berkeley DB XML Performance Questionnaire
1. Describe the Performance area that you are measuring? What is the
current performance? What are your performance goals you hope to
achieve?
We are measuring the performance while loading a document during
web application startup. It is currently taking 10-12 seconds when
only one user is on the system. We are trying to do some testing to
get the load time when several users are on the system.
We would like the load time to be 5 seconds or less.
2. What Berkeley DB XML Version? Any optional configuration flags
specified? Are you running with any special patches? Please specify?
dbxml 2.4.13. No special patches.
3. What Berkeley DB Version? Any optional configuration flags
specified? Are you running with any special patches? Please Specify.
bdb 4.6.21. No special patches.
4. Processor name, speed and chipset?
Intel Xeon CPU 5150 2.66GHz
5. Operating System and Version?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Relase 4 Update 6
6. Disk Drive Type and speed?
Don't have that information
7. File System Type? (such as EXT2, NTFS, Reiser)
EXT3
8. Physical Memory Available?
4GB
9. Are you using Replication (HA) with Berkeley DB XML? If so, please
describe the network you are using, and the number of Replica’s.
No
10. Are you using a Remote Filesystem (NFS) ? If so, for which
Berkeley DB XML/DB files?
No
11. What type of mutexes do you have configured? Did you specify
–with-mutex=? Specify what you find inn your config.log, search
for db_cv_mutex?
None. Did not specify -with-mutex during bdb compilation
12. Which API are you using (C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, other) ?
Which compiler and version?
Java 1.5
13. If you are using an Application Server or Web Server, please
provide the name and version?
Oracle Appication Server 10.1.3.4.0
14. Please provide your exact Environment Configuration Flags (include
anything specified in you DB_CONFIG file)
Default.
15. Please provide your Container Configuration Flags?
final EnvironmentConfig envConf = new EnvironmentConfig();
envConf.setAllowCreate(true); // If the environment does not
// exist, create it.
envConf.setInitializeCache(true); // Turn on the shared memory
// region.
envConf.setInitializeLocking(true); // Turn on the locking subsystem.
envConf.setInitializeLogging(true); // Turn on the logging subsystem.
envConf.setTransactional(true); // Turn on the transactional
// subsystem.
envConf.setLockDetectMode(LockDetectMode.MINWRITE);
envConf.setThreaded(true);
envConf.setErrorStream(System.err);
envConf.setCacheSize(1024*1024*64);
envConf.setMaxLockers(2000);
envConf.setMaxLocks(2000);
envConf.setMaxLockObjects(2000);
envConf.setTxnMaxActive(200);
envConf.setTxnWriteNoSync(true);
envConf.setMaxMutexes(40000);
16. How many XML Containers do you have? For each one please specify:
One.
1. The Container Configuration Flags
          XmlContainerConfig xmlContainerConfig = new XmlContainerConfig();
          xmlContainerConfig.setTransactional(true);
xmlContainerConfig.setIndexNodes(true);
xmlContainerConfig.setReadUncommitted(true);
2. How many documents?
Everytime the user logs in, the current xml document is loaded from
a oracle database table and put it in the Berkeley XML DB.
The documents get deleted from XML DB when the Oracle application
server container is stopped.
The number of documents should start with zero initially and it
will grow with every login.
3. What type (node or wholedoc)?
Node
4. Please indicate the minimum, maximum and average size of
documents?
The minimum is about 2MB and the maximum could 20MB. The average
mostly about 5MB.
5. Are you using document data? If so please describe how?
We are using document data only to save changes made
to the application data in a web application. The final save goes
to the relational database. Berkeley XML DB is just used to store
temporary data since going to the relational database for each change
will cause severe performance issues.
17. Please describe the shape of one of your typical documents? Please
do this by sending us a skeleton XML document.
Due to the sensitive nature of the data, I can provide XML schema instead.
18. What is the rate of document insertion/update required or
expected? Are you doing partial node updates (via XmlModify) or
replacing the document?
The document is inserted during user login. Any change made to the application
data grid or other data components gets saved in Berkeley DB. We also have
an automatic save every two minutes. The final save from the application
gets saved in a relational database.
19. What is the query rate required/expected?
Users will not be entering data rapidly. There will be lot of think time
before the users enter/modify data in the web application. This is a pilot
project but when we go live with this application, we will expect 25 users
at the same time.
20. XQuery -- supply some sample queries
1. Please provide the Query Plan
2. Are you using DBXML_INDEX_NODES?
Yes.
3. Display the indices you have defined for the specific query.
     XmlIndexSpecification spec = container.getIndexSpecification();
     // ids
     spec.addIndex("", "id", XmlIndexSpecification.PATH_NODE | XmlIndexSpecification.NODE_ATTRIBUTE | XmlIndexSpecification.KEY_EQUALITY, XmlValue.STRING);
     spec.addIndex("", "idref", XmlIndexSpecification.PATH_NODE | XmlIndexSpecification.NODE_ATTRIBUTE | XmlIndexSpecification.KEY_EQUALITY, XmlValue.STRING);
     // index to cover AttributeValue/Description
     spec.addIndex("", "Description", XmlIndexSpecification.PATH_EDGE | XmlIndexSpecification.NODE_ELEMENT | XmlIndexSpecification.KEY_SUBSTRING, XmlValue.STRING);
     // cover AttributeValue/@value
     spec.addIndex("", "value", XmlIndexSpecification.PATH_EDGE | XmlIndexSpecification.NODE_ATTRIBUTE | XmlIndexSpecification.KEY_EQUALITY, XmlValue.STRING);
     // item attribute values
     spec.addIndex("", "type", XmlIndexSpecification.PATH_EDGE | XmlIndexSpecification.NODE_ATTRIBUTE | XmlIndexSpecification.KEY_EQUALITY, XmlValue.STRING);
     // default index
     spec.addDefaultIndex(XmlIndexSpecification.PATH_NODE | XmlIndexSpecification.NODE_ELEMENT | XmlIndexSpecification.KEY_EQUALITY, XmlValue.STRING);
     spec.addDefaultIndex(XmlIndexSpecification.PATH_NODE | XmlIndexSpecification.NODE_ATTRIBUTE | XmlIndexSpecification.KEY_EQUALITY, XmlValue.STRING);
     // save the spec to the container
     XmlUpdateContext uc = xmlManager.createUpdateContext();
     container.setIndexSpecification(spec, uc);
4. If this is a large query, please consider sending a smaller
query (and query plan) that demonstrates the problem.
21. Are you running with Transactions? If so please provide any
transactions flags you specify with any API calls.
Yes. READ_UNCOMMITED in some and READ_COMMITTED in other transactions.
22. If your application is transactional, are your log files stored on
the same disk as your containers/databases?
Yes.
23. Do you use AUTO_COMMIT?
     No.
24. Please list any non-transactional operations performed?
No.
25. How many threads of control are running? How many threads in read
only mode? How many threads are updating?
We use Berkeley XML DB within the context of a struts web application.
Each user logged into the web application will be running a bdb transactoin
within the context of a struts action thread.
26. Please include a paragraph describing the performance measurements
you have made. Please specifically list any Berkeley DB operations
where the performance is currently insufficient.
We are clocking 10-12 seconds of loading a document from dbd when
five users are on the system.
getContainer().getDocument(documentName);
27. What performance level do you hope to achieve?
We would like to get less than 5 seconds when 25 users are on the system.
28. Please send us the output of the following db_stat utility commands
after your application has been running under "normal" load for some
period of time:
% db_stat -h database environment -c
% db_stat -h database environment -l
% db_stat -h database environment -m
% db_stat -h database environment -r
% db_stat -h database environment -t
(These commands require the db_stat utility access a shared database
environment. If your application has a private environment, please
remove the DB_PRIVATE flag used when the environment is created, so
you can obtain these measurements. If removing the DB_PRIVATE flag
is not possible, let us know and we can discuss alternatives with
you.)
If your application has periods of "good" and "bad" performance,
please run the above list of commands several times, during both
good and bad periods, and additionally specify the -Z flags (so
the output of each command isn't cumulative).
When possible, please run basic system performance reporting tools
during the time you are measuring the application's performance.
For example, on UNIX systems, the vmstat and iostat utilities are
good choices.
Will give this information soon.
29. Are there any other significant applications running on this
system? Are you using Berkeley DB outside of Berkeley DB XML?
Please describe the application?
No to the first two questions.
The web application is an online review of test questions. The users
login and then review the items one by one. The relational database
holds the data in xml. During application load, the application
retrieves the xml and then saves it to bdb. While the user
is making changes to the data in the application, it writes those
changes to bdb. Finally when the user hits the SAVE button, the data
gets saved to the relational database. We also have an automatic save
every two minues, which saves bdb xml data and saves it to relational
database.
Thanks,
Madhav
[email protected]

Could it be that you simply do not have set up indexes to support your query? If so, you could do some basic testing using the dbxml shell:
milu@colinux:~/xpg > dbxml -h ~/dbenv
Joined existing environment
dbxml> setverbose 7 2
dbxml> open tv.dbxml
dbxml> listIndexes
dbxml> query     { collection()[//@date-tip]/*[@chID = ('ard','zdf')] (: example :) }
dbxml> queryplan { collection()[//@date-tip]/*[@chID = ('ard','zdf')] (: example :) }Verbosity will make the engine display some (rather cryptic) information on index usage. I can't remember where the output is explained; my feeling is that "V(...)" means the index is being used (which is good), but that observation may not be accurate. Note that some details in the setVerbose command could differ, as I'm using 2.4.16 while you're using 2.4.13.
Also, take a look at the query plan. You can post it here and some people will be able to diagnose it.
Michael Ludwig

Need help with a simple process with FTP Adapter and File Adapter

I am trying out a simple BPEL process that gets a file in opaque mode from a FTP server using a FTP adapter and writes it to the local file system using a File Adapter. However, the file written is always empty (zero bytes). I then tried out the FTPDebatching sample using the same FTP server JNDI name and this work fine surprisingly. I also verified by looking at the FTP server logs that my process actually does hit the FTP server and seems to list the files based on the filtering condition - but it does not issue any GET or RETR commands to actually get the files. I am suspecting that the problem could be in the Receive, Assign or Invoke activities, but I am not able identify what it is.
I can provide additional info such as the contents of my bpel and wsdl files if needed.
Would appreciate if someone can help me with this at the earliest.
Thanks
Jay

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JavaRanch. To quote the tagline on their homepage: "a friendly place for Java greenhorns." FAQs, forums (moderated, I believe), sample code, all kinds of goodies for newbies. From what I've heard, they live up to the "friendly" claim.
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