Purpose of "align" in DDIF_NAMETAB_GET

Dear friends,
I am using this function module to get info of a particular table. But for some table x030l_wa-align gives 02 or 04.
So can anyone plz let me know the meaning of 02 or 04. What exactly could be the issue with the particular tables.
Thank you.

Hi
The value of align depends upon the data type of the fields in table.
02 - CHAR, INT2
04 - INT4
You can refer FM DD_TYPDEP_ALIGN_GET to get the alignment of each data type.
~~~Ganesh Kumar K.

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import java.awt.event.*;
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                          (short) addition, row.getRightInset());
        if (justifiedAlignment) {
          restructureRow(row, i);
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      int rowEndOffset = row.getEndOffset();
      String rowContent = "";
      try {
        rowContent = row.getDocument().getText(rowStartOffset,
                                               rowEndOffset - rowStartOffset);
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            rowContent = rowContent.substring(1);
            if (rowContent.length() == 0)
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      if (rowSpaceCount < 1)
        return;
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      for (int i = 0; i < row.getViewCount(); i++) {
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          View first = child.createFragment(child.getStartOffset(),
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          View second = child.createFragment(rowSpaceIndexes[currentSpaceIndex],
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          View[] repl = new View[2];
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class AdvancedRow
      extends BoxView {
    private int rowNumber = 0;
    AdvancedRow(Element elem) {
      super(elem, View.X_AXIS);
    protected void loadChildren(ViewFactory f) {
    public AttributeSet getAttributes() {
      View p = getParent();
      return (p != null) ? p.getAttributes() : null;
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        AttributeSet attr = getAttributes();
        int justification = StyleConstants.getAlignment(attr);
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          case StyleConstants.ALIGN_LEFT:
          case StyleConstants.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED:
            return 0;
          case StyleConstants.ALIGN_RIGHT:
            return 1;
          case StyleConstants.ALIGN_CENTER:
            return 0.5f;
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        BadLocationException {
      Rectangle r = a.getBounds();
      View v = getViewAtPosition(pos, r);
      if ( (v != null) && (!v.getElement().isLeaf())) {
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        return super.modelToView(pos, a, b);
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      int height = r.height;
      int y = r.y;
      Shape loc = super.modelToView(pos, a, b);
      r = loc.getBounds();
      r.height = height;
      r.y = y;
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      int offs = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
      int n = getViewCount();
      for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        View v = getView(i);
        offs = Math.min(offs, v.getStartOffset());
      return offs;
    public int getEndOffset() {
      int offs = 0;
      int n = getViewCount();
      for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        View v = getView(i);
        offs = Math.max(offs, v.getEndOffset());
      return offs;
    protected void layoutMinorAxis(int targetSpan, int axis, int[] offsets,
                                   int[] spans) {
      baselineLayout(targetSpan, axis, offsets, spans);
    protected SizeRequirements calculateMinorAxisRequirements(int axis,
        SizeRequirements r) {
      return baselineRequirements(axis, r);
    protected int getViewIndexAtPosition(int pos) {
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// out in model order.
      if (pos < getStartOffset() || pos >= getEndOffset())
        return -1;
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        View v = getView(counter);
        if (pos >= v.getStartOffset() &&
            pos < v.getEndOffset()) {
          return counter;
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    public short getTopInset() {
      return super.getTopInset();
    public short getLeftInset() {
      return super.getLeftInset();
    public short getRightInset() {
      return super.getRightInset();
    public void setInsets(short topInset, short leftInset, short bottomInset,
                          short rightInset) {
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                                   int[] spans) {
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      if ( (StyleConstants.getAlignment(attr) != StyleConstants.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED) &&
          (axis != View.X_AXIS)) {
        return;
      int cnt = offsets.length;
      int span = 0;
      for (int i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
        span += spans;
if (getRowNumber() == 0)
return;
int startOffset = getStartOffset();
int len = getEndOffset() - startOffset;
String context = "";
try {
context = getElement().getDocument().getText(startOffset, len);
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
int spaceCount = getSpaceCount(context) - 1;
int pixelsToAdd = targetSpan - span;
if (this.getRowNumber() == 1) {
int firstLineIndent = (int) StyleConstants.getFirstLineIndent(
getAttributes());
pixelsToAdd -= firstLineIndent;
int[] spaces = getSpaces(pixelsToAdd, spaceCount);
int j = 0;
int shift = 0;
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LabelView v = (LabelView) getView(i);
offsets[i] += shift;
if ( (isContainSpace(v)) && (i != cnt - 1)) {
offsets[i] += spaces[j];
spans[i - 1] += spaces[j];
shift += spaces[j];
j++;
protected int[] getSpaces(int space, int cnt) {
int[] result = new int[cnt];
if (cnt == 0)
return result;
int base = space / cnt;
int rst = space % cnt;
for (int i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
result[i] = base;
if (rst > 0) {
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rst--;
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public float getMinimumSpan(int axis) {
if (axis == View.X_AXIS) {
AttributeSet attr = getAttributes();
if (StyleConstants.getAlignment(attr) != StyleConstants.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED) {
return super.getMinimumSpan(axis);
else {
return this.getParent().getMinimumSpan(axis);
else {
return super.getMinimumSpan(axis);
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if (axis == View.X_AXIS) {
AttributeSet attr = getAttributes();
if (StyleConstants.getAlignment(attr) != StyleConstants.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED) {
return super.getMaximumSpan(axis);
else {
return this.getParent().getMaximumSpan(axis);
else {
return super.getMaximumSpan(axis);
public float getPreferredSpan(int axis) {
if (axis == View.X_AXIS) {
AttributeSet attr = getAttributes();
if (StyleConstants.getAlignment(attr) != StyleConstants.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED) {
return super.getPreferredSpan(axis);
else {
return this.getParent().getPreferredSpan(axis);
else {
return super.getPreferredSpan(axis);
public void setRowNumber(int value) {
rowNumber = value;
public int getRowNumber() {
return rowNumber;
public int getFlowSpan(int index) {
int span = super.getFlowSpan(index);
if (index == 0) {
int firstLineIdent = (int) StyleConstants.getFirstLineIndent(this.
getAttributes());
span -= firstLineIdent;
return span;
protected void layoutMinorAxis(int targetSpan, int axis, int[] offsets,
int[] spans) {
super.layoutMinorAxis(targetSpan, axis, offsets, spans);
int firstLineIdent = (int) StyleConstants.getFirstLineIndent(this.
getAttributes());
offsets[0] += firstLineIdent;
protected static boolean isContainSpace(View v) {
int startOffset = v.getStartOffset();
int len = v.getEndOffset() - startOffset;
try {
String text = v.getDocument().getText(startOffset, len);
if (text.indexOf(' ') >= 0)
return true;
else
return false;
catch (Exception ex) {
return false;
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package .....<your package>.....
import javax.swing.text.*;
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}In a file called FixedStyledViewFactory.java
package .....<your package>.....
import javax.swing.text.*;
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    String kind = elem.getName();
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Automatic Alignment of Identical Audio Tracks in Audition CC Win 8.0

Hi, I'm working on a film project, and I need to replace every bit of audio from the camera. I've got every track and take from my digital recording device, and my video editor has round-tripped the project to me from Premiere Pro CC.
My problem is that I need to zoom in on two tracks, down to the sample level, FOR EVERY SINGLE CUT IN THE FILM. Please someone tell me Audition can align two identical waveforms that are 99% of he way aligned to start with (one which has about 50% less gain and some noise). NOTE: Auto speech alignment doesn't work. (I've never gotten it to work properly for even the intended purpose. The artifacts, even on the lowest setting, are horrific.)
I'm tearing my hair out here and I make it through about a minute of the film every hour or so......
Help!
-SCP

Yikes! I was going to send you straight to Automatic Speech Alignment which is the Audition tool to do exactly what you want. I'm interested that you find it suffers from too many artifacts--I've not had that problem and therefore can't suggest any way to improve it--maybe a friendly developer will have some suggestions for you but, as far as I know, Auto Speech Alignment is the only tool designed for lining up tracks.
A few suggestion to help the manual method (gleaned from my deep distant past working with film then the early days of video).
First, if you're going for sample level accuracy you're WAY overthinking it.
Video is a frame based system--how many frames per second depends where you are and what format you're using--but your sound can't be in better sync than "to the fram". At a 48kHz sample rate, this means that within 1600 samples amounts to "perfect lip sync". In the old days of film, sound was actually transferred to magnetic coated 16 or 35 mm film and edited that way--i.e. accurate only to the frame.
Second, for the future, you might find it quicker to use an old fashioned "clapper board" at the beginning or end of every take. This makes finding a sync point dead easy. The other thing would be to sync up the external recorder BEFORE the editing starts so you can work in long, continuous takes rather than do a patch job later. It's still manual but (especially if you have notes of the good takes and only do them) but much faster than doing it cut by cut.
I know the second set of hints really doesn't help this time but maybe in the future...

Text alignment question

Hi guys
Just wondering if there is a way to keep two sentences in one string on the same line, but one aligned left, the other right using html or TLF?
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left margin>FIRST SENTENCE             SECOND SENTENCE<right margin
The string is being injected into a textflow, so it would need to work with either TEXT_FIELD_HTML_FORMAT or TEXT_LAYOUT_FORMAT.
I've imported css via a formatResolver, and have a class that colors and aligns the font. The color works, but aligning it does nothing.
Thanks for taking a look.

Forgot to mention it's for an AIR desktop app. Here's the guts of the code from AS3CSSSample.as - some of the tags don't seem to work...
[Embed(source="SimpleCSS.css",mimeType="application/octet-stream")]
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        //private var styleSheet:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet;
        private var styleSheet:StyleSheet = new TLFStyleSheet;
            // parse a styleSheet
        private var cssByteArray:ByteArray = new SimpleCSS();
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          flow = new TextFlow();
            flow.flowComposer = new StandardFlowComposer();
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var simpleText:String = "<TextFlow xmlns='http://ns.adobe.com/textLayout/2008'>"
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    ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Copyright 2008 Adobe Systems Incorporated
    All Rights Reserved.
    NOTICE: Adobe permits you to use, modify, and distribute this file
    in accordance with the terms of the Adobe license agreement
    accompanying it. If you have received this file from a source
    other than Adobe, then your use, modification, or distribution
    of it requires the prior written permission of Adobe.
span
    fontSize:        18;
TextFlow
    columnCount:            2;
    textIndent:             15;
    paragraphSpaceAfter:    15;
    paddingTop:             4;
    paddingLeft:            4;
foo
    fontSize:        18;
    color:            0xff00;
.italic
    #fontStyle:        italic;
    #color:            0xff;
    #fontFamily:    Helvetica;
.center
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Getting dual axis on a graph in SSRS to align at 0

I have a graph that has 2 values that are plotted on dual axes. Both values can be positive or negative. Is there a way in SSRS to align the 0 point of both axes? Preferably, I would like to retain dynamic values for the axes.
I'm using 2008r2
Thanks for any help.

I figured out the issue with incrementing whole numbers, and this is the solution I used.
You will need to manually set the interval value to determine the increments you want the line showing up. In my case I wanted the primary axis to show a value every 5 and the secondary axis to show a value every 5000.
Manually setting the interval will cause the primary and secondary axes to be off again. To fix this, we will need to have the same amount of intervals on both axes. For instance, if we have 6 intervals on the primary axis we will need to have 6 intervals
on the secondary axis to keep them lined up.
I wrote custom code that will be used as expressions in the Maximum setting for both axes. The purpose of the functions will be to determine which axis will have more intervals, then calculate the maximum value needed to have the same amount of intervals.
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=Code.FindMaxValueForPrimary(max(Fields!PrimaryField.Value), max(Fields!SecondaryField.Value))
Secondary Axis Maximum Expression
=Code.FindMaxValueForSecondary(max(Fields!PrimaryField.Value), max(Fields!SecondaryField.Value))
Custom Code
Public Function FindMaxValueForPrimary(ByVal PrimaryValue as Integer, ByVal SecondaryValue As Integer) As Integer
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Alignement in List Output and Printing

Respected Members,
i had one zreport and given line size 215 and in output everything is coming in vertical alignement.
For eg Material Description    Vendor Name ( Header Text)
            "Bowler"                     "Krishna Steels".
Liket this everything is coming perfect under the header text and for this purpose i had written the code with the help of offset and length.
Now in standard no format exist for size 215 so i had made a new format ie
X_65_215.
Now when i am taking prinout on A4 paper it is coming very small.
THen instead of A4 paper i am going with A3 paper.
For that i am going to spad and with ref to my output device i am going to output attributes and ther i selected the first tray and next tab TRAY INFO i have given the value DINA3 and selected the first tray checkbox.
SAVE
now when i am my executing report and giving the parameter X_65_215 printout is coming on A3 paper with the increase font size
But the problem i am facing is that alignment is disturbed on the paper .
if Material description is small then all the fields to the right of it are moving towards right side.
I had set the following values in X_65_215
ePL; landscape orientation
eL8; 8 lines per inch;
eS130X;
e200siz; Font size.
now thing is that our screen is 215 and width of A3 paper in landscape format is 42cm ie 420mm
Now to set the character per inch value so that same alignment what we are getting on the screen should also get on the paper.
Please give me the solution.
Thanks

Respected Members,
i had one zreport and given line size 215 and in output everything is coming in vertical alignement.
For eg Material Description    Vendor Name ( Header Text)
            "Bowler"                     "Krishna Steels".
Liket this everything is coming perfect under the header text and for this purpose i had written the code with the help of offset and length.
Now in standard no format exist for size 215 so i had made a new format ie
X_65_215.
Now when i am taking prinout on A4 paper it is coming very small.
THen instead of A4 paper i am going with A3 paper.
For that i am going to spad and with ref to my output device i am going to output attributes and ther i selected the first tray and next tab TRAY INFO i have given the value DINA3 and selected the first tray checkbox.
SAVE
now when i am my executing report and giving the parameter X_65_215 printout is coming on A3 paper with the increase font size
But the problem i am facing is that alignment is disturbed on the paper .
if Material description is small then all the fields to the right of it are moving towards right side.
I had set the following values in X_65_215
ePL; landscape orientation
eL8; 8 lines per inch;
eS130X;
e200siz; Font size.
now thing is that our screen is 215 and width of A3 paper in landscape format is 42cm ie 420mm
Now to set the character per inch value so that same alignment what we are getting on the screen should also get on the paper.
Please give me the solution.
Thanks

Pie - Chart Web Part - Label Alignment empty

Hello all,
I create lots of Dashboards to display KPIs for my company and I always struggle with the pie chart labels as the always end up overlapping unless I rotate them but that just looks naff.
My frustration and question is that the "Label Alignment" option is empty and therefore does not allow me to select "Open" which is the feature I seek.
Does anyone have an idea why this might be and if there is a work around?
Thank you in advance
Jessica

You would potentially run into this with lookup fields as well, I believe. I would make a column that is single line of text for the purpose of the chart. That would make sure the NUM;# is removed.
Andy Wessendorf SharePoint Developer II | Rackspace [email protected]

How to Center Align SWF in Browser

I used the publish feature of flash but it does not seem to center the SWF in the browser. Why is there a centering feature on the publish settings under HTML tab if it does not center the SWF? It only works if you set Dimensions to Percent but that exposes the area beyond the stage and i don't want it to be seen. In addition that causes some movieclips to be improperly positioned. The Flash Alignment should have been disabled if the Dimensions is not set to Percent. Does anybody disagree? Can somebody help me solve this issue? Perhaps a simple script that centers my swf file in a browser... Any help highly appreciated.

Thanks a many for your help! I tried not using the swfobject.js and tried commenting out the object instantiation in the html file and it still works, why? Is it really needed? What exactly is the purpose of the swfobject.js. I remember i read something about Geoff Stearns creating that .js file to solve a particular problem but i forgot what exactly that was.

Project background doesn't align with stage after rescaling project

Hello,
I think I discovered a bug that may or may not have been resolved in later versions of Captivate. I'm using Captivate 5 (5.0.3.631) and as much as I'd like to have a newer version, my employer only has this version purchased right now. I'm posting this here because I realize this may not be a bug and there may be a workaround, in which case maybe I can learn something!
The issue appeared when I recently had to rescale my project to make room for a closed captions popup area at the bottom of the stage. (I don't want it to overlap previously positioned content.) Do do this, I rescaled my project to be 25 pixels taller than it was previously, and I selected the resize option to keep the already placed project contents aligned at the top left of the project rather than to scale everything to fit. Just as I hoped, this extended the stage out from the bottom by 25 pixels, much like resizing a canvas property in photoshop.
I then edited my project background images to match the new project stage dimensions in order to cover up the now visible 25-pixel-tall strip of uncovered stage. I imported the new background image onto my master slide in the same way I placed the original one, and this is where the problem appears. The taller image, configured as a "project background", will not align with the stage anymore. Instead, it's hanging off the top of the stage by 13 pixels and not reaching the bottom of the stage by 12 pixels (adding up to the 25 pixels I increased the project height). I purposefully placed the image as a project background rather than just dragging it on the stage of the master slide. My reasons for doing so are somewhat complicated, but mainly are because I need the master slide background to not interfere with the Z-order of items on the regular slides. Apparently a master slide image on the stage of a master slide will cover up items set to display for the rest of the project. Perhaps this is a bug, too?
Anyway, back to the problem at hand... I had everything working fine before I rescaled my project, but now the imported background image won't align with the stage. Because it's set as a project background, there is no way to reposition it on the stage... it just kind of lands where it lands. It appears that when I rescaled the project, Captivate remembered where the center of the "old" sized project was and didn't recalculate the center of the "new" rescaled project. So, when I place a larger image in the master slide (as a project background), it is centering it where the old, smaller project used to be... thus resulting in the larger image to not be centered on the stage.
I figured out a workaround in the mean time by placing the background image on the stage of the master slide (not as aproject background), and by moving more things to the master slide that I don't want to be covered up. This actually seems to be a more elegant solution that what I had previously, but I'd still like to know if what I'm experiencing is a bug or not.

Ok just found a workaround/solution.
(always happens right after I ask, for some reason).
Rescaled my project but kept the size and positions the "same and centered".
Then I replaced all my background images with bigger versions (previously I had cropped them at the right and bottom).
Now my backgrounds were all great, but all my objects were too low.
All I had to do was ctrl+A to select everything on a slide, and then change the Y value for the whole bunch to zero.
This magically placed all objects in their correct respective spots.
Hope that helps someone out!
Russ

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