Need help with my templates

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Hope someone can help me!
Im creating a website using a template in dreamweaver CS4
I created my index page, with all my links etc running down the left hand side in a div tag (this is going to be my navigation) and my content in a different div on the right (this is going to be my div that changes on each page.)
I then converted this page to a template, and created a new page from my new template as my index page. I then quickly created another page from my template (about.html) All systems go! Here are my troubles.
Starting with my about.html page, and for the other pages im using a different background image in my content div. When i go to change the background image in my CSS file for that div, it automatically changes all the background images on the other pages. Im guessing this is because im using the same CSS file on all my pages.
How do i change the background image in the div without effecting the other pages?

swif mcvay wrote:
Hi osgood,
This is exactly what my problem is
I have created an index.html page, I create a template from that, when I create a html doc called about from my template and change my main content image, then the index file changes to what I have just done in the about,
When you created the index page, did you save it as a template file? so that it's inside a Templates folder with the extension of index.dwt?
When you created the about page, did you just use the index page and resave it or did you do it correctly by: File>New>Page from Template
It sounds like you are working on the template page and updating the picture which is then going through to the child pages.
Make the image an editable region in the template, so that you can change the picture on any of the child pages.
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<xsl:for-each select="p">
<TextMSG>

<xsl:attribute name="align"><xsl:value-of select="@align"/></xsl:attribute>

<xsl:attribute name="font"><xsl:value-of select="@size"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</TextMSG>
<xsl:for-each select="b">
<emph>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</emph>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
</POSMESSAGE>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
*4: the above xslt generating this output*
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<POSMESSAGE><TextMSG align="" font="">
This coupon is for a good guy whose first name is :
</TextMSG><TextMSG align="" font="">
</TextMSG><TextMSG align="center" font="">
SADD
</TextMSG><TextMSG align="center" font="">
</TextMSG><TextMSG align="right" font="">
also whose full_name is Sadd Hossain
</TextMSG><TextMSG align="left" font="">
</TextMSG><TextMSG align="left" font="">
He is a software engineer
for S&H
</
*5: Need help with this. what should my xslt look like to get the desired output???????????????*
any help or direction will be very much appreciated. Thank you_

I have below suggestions:
1. Please use code option given in message editor toolbar for posting any formatted content like XML, Java code snippet etc.
2. replace & in your source XML with _& a m p ;_ (Without spaces, I have put spaces to make it visible here).
3. I have modified your XSLT according output XML you have given. I am not sure what you want to do with some elements like <b>, <font>, <var> etc. change below XSLT as you require for these elements.
Modified XSLT:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
        <xsl:output method="xml"/>
     <xsl:template match="body">
          <POSMESSAGE>
               <xsl:for-each select="p">
                    <TextMSG>
                         <xsl:if test=". != ''">
                              <xsl:for-each select="@align">
                                   <xsl:attribute name="align">
                                        <xsl:value-of select="."></xsl:value-of>
                                   </xsl:attribute>
                              </xsl:for-each>
                              <xsl:value-of select="."/>
                         </xsl:if>
                    </TextMSG>
               </xsl:for-each>
          </POSMESSAGE>
     </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
OUTPUT:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<POSMESSAGE>
     <TextMSG>This coupon is for a good guy whose first name is :</TextMSG>
     <TextMSG/>
     <TextMSG align="center">Sadd</TextMSG>
     <TextMSG/>
     <TextMSG align="right">alsowhose full_name is Sadd Hossain</TextMSG>
     <TextMSG/>
     <TextMSG align="left">He is a softwareengineer forS&H</TextMSG>
</POSMESSAGE>

Need help with 1 thing

I followed a tut and learned how to do everything I'll need.
I'm a kid, so I don't need to be professional about anything.
Anyways, the tutorial left out the last part. How to publish your
website. It said to find a guide in the help from dreamweaver, but
I didn't find it. If anybody could sum it up for me, simple or not,
it would be greatly appreciated.

> Would he be able to give it to me
Yes - he would relay to you the FTP login information sent to
him by his
host.
Alternatively, you could give him the files, and let him
upload them using
that same FTP information.
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"afghanikiddo12" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
news:famu1v$bup$[email protected]..
> Many thanks, but since I'm making the site for a friend,
I'm not exactly
> sure
> how I would get FTP access... Would he be able to give
it to me, or would
> I
> have to send him the files + give him a little tut on
what to do?
> Technically,
> I've needed help with two things now, but you answered
the first, so its
> down
> to 1, thank-you.
>

Need help with session sharing in WebCenter Portal

Hi, How can I share session between a WebCenter Portal application and the portlets it is consuming?
Basically I want this for authentication. In the portal framework application, I'm setting a user object in the session, How can I get the object in a portlet?
Regards,
Navaneet

IN the second page, you have to make sure that the session
has been started.
Put this at the very top of the page -
<?php if (!isset($_SESSION)) session_start(); ?>
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"Alidad" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:g184i4$jgf$[email protected]..
> have created a login page (php/mysql) with username and
password boxes.
> when
> the form is submitted the mainpage loads up.
>
> i want the main page to be specific to that user, so i
want their name to
> appear in the first line. eg.. Welcome back 'David'
>
> I read a tutorial in the past that tought me to send the
users id in the
> URL
> and then create a record set on the mainpage that was
filtered by the URL
> parameter.
>
> I have forgotten how to do this and the tutorial is no
longer available on
> Adobe's site.
>
> I tried that with
> $_SESSION['MM_Username'] = $loginUsername; \\ in first
page then
> echo $_SESSION["MM_username"]; \\in second page, but
> the
> problem is that is not showing user name.
>
> i need help with that please!
>
> can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks in advance,
>
> AM
>

Need help with session using dreamweaver

have created a login page (php/mysql) with username and
password boxes. when the form is submitted the mainpage loads up.
i want the main page to be specific to that user, so i want
their name to appear in the first line. eg.. Welcome back 'David'
I read a tutorial in the past that tought me to send the
users id in the URL and then create a record set on the mainpage
that was filtered by the URL parameter.
I have forgotten how to do this and the tutorial is no longer
available on Adobe's site.
I tried that with
$_SESSION['MM_Username'] = $loginUsername; \\ in first page
then
echo $_SESSION["MM_username"]; \\in second page, but the
problem is that is not showing user name.
i need help with that please!
can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks in advance,
AM

IN the second page, you have to make sure that the session
has been started.
Put this at the very top of the page -
<?php if (!isset($_SESSION)) session_start(); ?>
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"Alidad" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:g184i4$jgf$[email protected]..
> have created a login page (php/mysql) with username and
password boxes.
> when
> the form is submitted the mainpage loads up.
>
> i want the main page to be specific to that user, so i
want their name to
> appear in the first line. eg.. Welcome back 'David'
>
> I read a tutorial in the past that tought me to send the
users id in the
> URL
> and then create a record set on the mainpage that was
filtered by the URL
> parameter.
>
> I have forgotten how to do this and the tutorial is no
longer available on
> Adobe's site.
>
> I tried that with
> $_SESSION['MM_Username'] = $loginUsername; \\ in first
page then
> echo $_SESSION["MM_username"]; \\in second page, but
> the
> problem is that is not showing user name.
>
> i need help with that please!
>
> can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks in advance,
>
> AM
>

Need help with show/hide and layers moving

I'm more of a designer, so I don't know code or CSS well at
all. I'm doing an online portfolio for a class and need help with
layers not staying in place in different browsers. The portfolio is
created with a table, but I wanted to use the show/hide function
for thumbnails of work. Are layers the only way you can use this
function? I read layers don't work well with tables, so how else
can I make it so when you mouse over a thumbnail, the larger image
appears in another cell?

> I don't know code or CSS well at all.
That's unfortunate.
> layers not staying in place in different browsers.
Layers don't move. But the rest of your page does.
Before you get too wrapped up in layers, though, please read
this -
http://www.great-web-sights.com/g_layerlaws.asp
They are not good when be used as a primary layout method.
> I read layers don't work well with tables
They work fine with tables - but you have to understand both
tables and
layers to use them.
Why not show us your page, so we can see what you are
struggling with?
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"Bobbi67" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:ertd9h$h3m$[email protected]..
> I'm more of a designer, so I don't know code or CSS well
at all. I'm doing
> an
> online portfolio for a class and need help with layers
not staying in
> place in
> different browsers. The portfolio is created with a
table, but I wanted to
> use
> the show/hide function for thumbnails of work. Are
layers the only way you
> can
> use this function? I read layers don't work well with
tables, so how else
> can I
> make it so when you mouse over a thumbnail, the larger
image appears in
> another
> cell?
>

Help with Work Template Version 1.1 purchased at Apple Store

Need help with an app i purchased from the apple store called Work Templates Version 1.1. I downloaded it but when I tried to open the file, it tells me that file cannot be opened through Brain games ( a game I have installed a long time ago) does anyone know why this is happening? I keep tabbing on the Work Template icon but the Brain game icon come up and it give me that same message. Hope someone out there can help.

Dah.veed,
thank you so very much for responding. Of course I don't have MS Word (laughing out loud)! I will try installing. I hope it's not too expensive. Again, thank you and may God bless you.
Itzy169

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

Need help with JTextArea and Scrolling

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import javax.swing.*;
public class MORT_RETRY extends JFrame implements ActionListener
private JPanel keypad;
private JPanel buttons;
private JTextField lcdLoanAmt;
private JTextField lcdInterestRate;
private JTextField lcdTerm;
private JTextField lcdMonthlyPmt;
private JTextArea displayArea;
private JButton CalculateBtn;
private JButton ClrBtn;
private JButton CloseBtn;
private JButton Amortize;
private JScrollPane scroll;
private DecimalFormat calcPattern = new DecimalFormat("$###,###.00");
private String[] rateTerm = {"", "7years @ 5.35%", "15years @ 5.5%", "30years @ 5.75%"};
private JComboBox rateTermList;
double interest[] = {5.35, 5.5, 5.75};
int term[] = {7, 15, 30};
double balance, interestAmt, monthlyInterest, monthlyPayment, monPmtInt, monPmtPrin;
int termInMonths, month, termLoop, monthLoop;
public MORT_RETRY()
Container pane = getContentPane();
lcdLoanAmt = new JTextField();
lcdMonthlyPmt = new JTextField();
displayArea = new JTextArea();//DEFINE COMBOBOX AND SCROLL
rateTermList = new JComboBox(rateTerm);
scroll = new JScrollPane(displayArea);
scroll.setSize(600,170);
scroll.setLocation(150,270);//DEFINE BUTTONS
CalculateBtn = new JButton("Calculate");
ClrBtn = new JButton("Clear Fields");
CloseBtn = new JButton("Close");
Amortize = new JButton("Amortize");//DEFINE PANEL(S)
keypad = new JPanel();
buttons = new JPanel();//DEFINE KEYPAD PANEL LAYOUT
keypad.setLayout(new GridLayout( 4, 2, 5, 5));//SET CONTROLS ON KEYPAD PANEL
keypad.add(new JLabel("Loan Amount$ : "));
keypad.add(lcdLoanAmt);
keypad.add(new JLabel("Term of loan and Interest Rate: "));
keypad.add(rateTermList);
keypad.add(new JLabel("Monthly Payment : "));
keypad.add(lcdMonthlyPmt);
lcdMonthlyPmt.setEditable(false);
keypad.add(new JLabel("Amortize Table:"));
keypad.add(displayArea);
displayArea.setEditable(false);//DEFINE BUTTONS PANEL LAYOUT
buttons.setLayout(new GridLayout( 1, 3, 5, 5));//SET CONTROLS ON BUTTONS PANEL
buttons.add(CalculateBtn);
buttons.add(Amortize);
buttons.add(ClrBtn);
buttons.add(CloseBtn);//ADD ACTION LISTENER
CalculateBtn.addActionListener(this);
ClrBtn.addActionListener(this);
CloseBtn.addActionListener(this);
Amortize.addActionListener(this);
rateTermList.addActionListener(this);//ADD PANELS
pane.add(keypad, BorderLayout.NORTH);
pane.add(buttons, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
pane.add(scroll, BorderLayout.CENTER);
addWindowListener( new WindowAdapter()
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
System.exit(0);
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
String arg = lcdLoanAmt.getText();
int combined = Integer.parseInt(arg);
if (e.getSource() == CalculateBtn)
try
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Got try here", "Error", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
catch(NumberFormatException ev)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Got here", "Error", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
if ((e.getSource() == CalculateBtn) && (arg != null))
try{
if ((e.getSource() == CalculateBtn) && (rateTermList.getSelectedIndex() == 1))
monthlyInterest = interest[0] / (12 * 100);
termInMonths = term[0] * 12;
monthlyPayment = combined * (monthlyInterest / (1 - (Math.pow (1 + monthlyInterest, -termInMonths))));
lcdMonthlyPmt.setText(calcPattern.format(monthlyPayment));
if ((e.getSource() == CalculateBtn) && (rateTermList.getSelectedIndex() == 2))
monthlyInterest = interest[1] / (12 * 100);
termInMonths = term[1] * 12;
monthlyPayment = combined * (monthlyInterest / (1 - (Math.pow (1 + monthlyInterest, -termInMonths))));
lcdMonthlyPmt.setText(calcPattern.format(monthlyPayment));
if ((e.getSource() == CalculateBtn) && (rateTermList.getSelectedIndex() == 3))
monthlyInterest = interest[2] / (12 * 100);
termInMonths = term[2] * 12;
monthlyPayment = combined * (monthlyInterest / (1 - (Math.pow (1 + monthlyInterest, -termInMonths))));
lcdMonthlyPmt.setText(calcPattern.format(monthlyPayment));
catch(NumberFormatException ev)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Invalid Entry!\nPlease Try Again", "Error", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
} //IF STATEMENTS FOR AMORTIZATION
if ((e.getSource() == Amortize) && (rateTermList.getSelectedIndex() == 1))
loopy(7, 5.35);
if ((e.getSource() == Amortize) && (rateTermList.getSelectedIndex() == 2))
loopy(15, 5.5);
if ((e.getSource() == Amortize) && (rateTermList.getSelectedIndex() == 3))
loopy(30, 5.75);
if (e.getSource() == ClrBtn)
rateTermList.setSelectedIndex(0);
lcdLoanAmt.setText(null);
lcdMonthlyPmt.setText(null);
displayArea.setText(null);
if (e.getSource() == CloseBtn)
System.exit(0);
private void loopy(int lTerm,double lInterest)
double total, monthly, monthlyrate, monthint, monthprin, balance, lastint, paid;
int amount, months, termloop, monthloop;
String lcd2 = lcdLoanAmt.getText();
amount = Integer.parseInt(lcd2);
termloop = 1;
paid = 0.00;
monthlyrate = lInterest / (12 * 100);
months = lTerm * 12;
monthly = amount *(monthlyrate/(1-Math.pow(1+monthlyrate,-months)));
total = months * monthly;
balance = amount;
while (termloop <= lTerm)
displayArea.setCaretPosition(0);
displayArea.append("\n");
displayArea.append("Year " + termloop + " of " + lTerm + ": payments\n");
displayArea.append("\n");
displayArea.append("Month\tMonthly\tPrinciple\tInterest\tBalance\n");
monthloop = 1;
while (monthloop <= 12)
monthint = balance * monthlyrate;
monthprin = monthly - monthint;
balance -= monthprin;
paid += monthly;
displayArea.setCaretPosition(0);
displayArea.append(monthloop + "\t" + calcPattern.format(monthly) + "\t" + calcPattern.format(monthprin) + "\t");
displayArea.append(calcPattern.format(monthint) + "\t" + calcPattern.format(balance) + "\n");
monthloop ++;
termloop ++;
public static void main(String args[])
MORT_RETRY f = new MORT_RETRY();
f.setTitle("MORTGAGE PAYMENT CALCULATOR");
f.setBounds(600, 600, 500, 500);
f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
f.setVisible(true);
}need help with displaying the textarea correctly and the scroll bar please.
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Need help with trim and null function

Hi all,
I need help with a query. I use the trim function to get the first three characters of a string. How do I write my query so if a null value occurs in combination with my trim to say 'Null' in my results?
Thanks

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. What am I doing wrong?
SELECT trim(SUBSTR(AL1.user_data_text,1,3)),NVL
(AL1.user_data_text,'XX')
FROM Table
I want the XX to appear in the same column as the
trim.The main thing you're doing wrong is not formatting your code. The solution may become obvious if you do.
What you're saying is:
SELECT trim ( SUBSTR (AL1.user_data_text, 1, 3))
,       NVL ( AL1.user_data_text, 'XX' )
FROM    Tablewhich makes it clear that you're SELECTing two columns, when you only want to have one.
If you want that column to be exactly like the first column you're currently SELECTing, except that when that column is NULL you want it to be 'XX', then you have to apply NVL to that column, like this:
SELECT NVL ( trim ( SUBSTR (AL1.user_data_text, 1, 3))
            , 'XX'
FROM    Table

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