Beginner question about Mic use

I have a mic that I use to use with an older PC and when I plug it in to my MBP it doesn't work. Should any mic work with the mac or do ya need a mac specific mic. Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated. Thanks

Depending on what you are recording and quality needed, there is a built in microphone in your computer.
Also. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303490
Connect your MacBook Pro to a line-level microphone or optical digital audio equipment. The Audio In port accommodates both optical digital audio input and analog audio input.
Analog audio line input is accepted through a 3.5mm mini phone jack which does not provide power to a connected device, so you must use self-powered peripherals. The sound input jack accepts line-level stereo signals up to 24-bit stereo 44.1-192kHz sampling rate. It also accepts a stereo miniplug-to-RCA cable adapter for connecting stereo equipment to the computer.
Optical audio input is SPDIF format and uses a standard toslink cable with a toslink mini-plug adapter, accepting up to 24-bit stereo and 44.1-96kHz sampling rate.

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When you double click, it should finish up the selection. You can use the selection brush to tidy up (Option-drag to remove areas.)
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I don't think this is the right place for this question, but I figured I am probably going to need to write an applescript to do what I want, so I decided to put it here.
I have an automation to open some Word documents on my idisk, then open Dictionary, then open Safari with some tabs. But the problem comes in with spaces. I have Word and Dictionary open on Space 1 and Safari open in Space 3. When the automation ends, I end on Space 3 and would like to know how I add a function to set the focus back to Space 1. It's not all that detrimental to the success of my Automation, but I only use Safari for research and would like to focus to end back on word. I have tried switching which apps open first, but I still end up on the 3rd Space.
My other question is, where can I go for reference to commands in Xcode and AppleScript that deal with Spaces? I love using that function and I have had some ideas about scripts that could help me with them, but I don't even know were I would start with commands.

There are several solutions to this.
The first option would be to send the appropriate key command to switch to space 1. If you've left your preferences as the defaults then you can:
<pre class=command>tell application "System Events" to keystroke "1" using {control down}</pre>
Which will send a Ctrl-1 and switch to space 1.
An alternative, which may be even better, is to activate the application you want to be frontmost:
<pre class=command>tell application "Microsoft Word" to activate</pre>
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Beginner question about NetBeans

I am new to java, which is why I am posting on this forum. I have been messing around with the NetBeans IDE and have made a couple GUI's now. First question is how do I have the window change. For example, if the application opened up and it showed a menu with a couple different buttons you could click to do different things, how would I make it so when you clicked a button the window changed into what was supposed to be on the screen next. Say one of the options was "Calculator", how would I make the window become a calculator after it was clicked? Do I make a new JFrame with the all the calculator stuff? If so, how do I "connect" the two of them? I want it to appear in the same window, not open a new one. My second question was how do I make it so my applications can be run from the desktop without having to build from within NetBeans?
It was a little difficult to explain what I was asking, but any help is appreciated. I am assuming that what I'm trying to do is pretty basic, sorry I'm newbie.

mdewaddict11 wrote:
I am new to java, which is why I am posting on this forum. Let me try to be the first to welcome you to our little corner of the Java world.
I have been messing around with the NetBeans IDE and have made a couple GUI's now. First question is how do I have the window change. For example, if the application opened up and it showed a menu with a couple different buttons you could click to do different things, how would I make it so when you clicked a button the window changed into what was supposed to be on the screen next. Say one of the options was "Calculator", how would I make the window become a calculator after it was clicked? Do I make a new JFrame with the all the calculator stuff? If so, how do I "connect" the two of them? I want it to appear in the same window, not open a new one. My second question was how do I make it so my applications can be run from the desktop without having to build from within NetBeans?I have a feeling that you are searching for a way to change your GUI "view" on some action, and if so, there are many solutions to do this. Probably one of the more common ways is to use a CardLayout to swap JPanels, but other options including popping up a JDialog, using JTabbedPanes, hiding a JFrame and showing another, ... exist.
It was a little difficult to explain what I was asking, but any help is appreciated. I am assuming that what I'm trying to do is pretty basic, sorry I'm newbie.You're doing fine, relax.
Now I need to get on my soap box and discuss another issue that you've not asked about. First off, Java is not like Visual Basic, C#, or other .NET languages (assuming you may be familiar with the MS Visual Studio) in that our programs are not first and foremost GUI's with code tacked on. There's a lot to learn when starting to code in Java, enough that adding Java GUI coding may be a bit overwhelming at the start. I'm going to recommend that you put the GUI stuff to the side for a bit, study the basics of Java, and then later when you're comfortable with the rudiments of Java, start learning Swing coding but without NetBeans code generation. If you learn it through the Sun tutorials, Swing will make a whole lot more sense and even using NetBeans to generate some Swing code will be easier for you. Regardless what you do, best of luck!
Edited by: Encephalopathic on Jul 7, 2010 2:15 PM

Beginner question about CommandListener

Hi all! I am programming my first cell phone application. Here´s my problem: I have a sequence of menus and all of them use CommandListener to figure out what should be done next. I will put part of my code
public class Planilha extends MIDlet implements CommandListener {
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Form formPerfil,formPagto,fromVis;
//Here I have declared Commands, etc
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//HERE IS MY PROBLEM. ONLY FIRST OPTION IS BEING REACHED
public void commandAction(Command c, Displayable s) {
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    else if(c == cSave){ }So my problem is: even if I choose option 2 or 3 from mList, only the first option is selected. In other words, only formPerfil is being called.
My second question is that I have some command listeners on the other panels but mList. Is this correct to add in the same method CommandAction? For example, I added "cSave" and "cExpense". Is there any problem with it?
Thx in advance

ThomYork wrote:
...So my problem is: even if I choose option 2 or 3 from mList, only the first option is selected. In other words, only formPerfil is being called.
My second question is that I have some command listeners on the other panels but mList. Is this correct to add in the same method CommandAction? For example, I added "cSave" and "cExpense". Is there any problem with it?I can't point exactly but the way how you "mix" select command with cFirst, cSec and cThird just doesn't feel right.
To handle selection in implicit list, neither of added commands is necessary. It is sufficient to just detect select command in the list and then use [getSelectedIndex() method|http://java.sun.com/javame/reference/apis/jsr118/javax/microedition/lcdui/List.html#getSelectedIndex()|javadoc] to figure which item was selected.
Another thing that looks suspicious is that commandAction does not check the displayable parameter ('s'). Say, without checking this paramenter, one will never know if SELECT_COMMAND comes from mList or mListSec.
Regarding your questions on handling "cSave" and "cExpense" commands in mList's comandAction, the way you do it is legal.
By the way, it is equally legal to do it the other way - ie provide dedicated listener for formPerfil and handle its commands in that dedicated listener. It is a matter of your personal preference, which way to choose. Myself, I more often use dedicated listeners, about like like this:
// assuming that list is implicit and that no commands are added
//   to mList, ie only select command is available by default...
mList.setCommandListener (new CommandListener() {
public void commandAction(Command c, Displayable s) {
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    // - I don't check s since I expect only mList
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});

Another beginner question about targeting functions

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Question about forum use regarding an error I am receiving

I am looking for an answer to the proper process I should follow when running into issues with Azure Storage. As I don't want to annoy folks with tossing questions into this forum regarding errors I'm running into that are more usage related instead
of technical in scope.
For instance this morning I was attempting to view some details about a particular Storage item and was greeted with the following screen in the Azure Portal.
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I'm happy to put them here, just want to make sure there isn't a better place as I'm new to this.

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>>Would it be better to create a separate account called 'ADMIN' perhaps that I use for
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I want to dynamically populate a table that shows whether a particular person has an appointment at a given date and time with a user. To do this, I want to query the MySQL database for the lastname of the person with the appointment that occurs with the user at the year, month, date, and time, in question.
THE CODE BELOW DOESN'T WORK (obviously) BUT SOMEWHAT ILLUSTRATES WHAT I'M TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH:
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Object TestRecordSet_data;
int TestRecordSet_numRows = 0;
%>
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Hi PhineasGage
You are little bit wrong in your
your preparedStatement.
Expression tag within scriptlet tag is invalid.
Whenever you are appending the statement with
expression tag, append it with "+" and remove
expression tag.
Hopefully it will work
ThanksThanks for the response!
I know that the expression tag within scriptlet tag is invalid. I just need a workaround for what I want to do.
I'm unclear what you mean by "Whenever you are appending the statement with expression tag, append it with a "+" and remove expression tag".
Could you give an example?
In the meantime, I've been trying to digest the docs on prepared statements and have changed the code to look like:
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StatementTestRecordSet.setInt(1,1);
StatementTestRecordSet.setInt(2,2002);
StatementTestRecordSet.setString(3,"October");
StatementTestRecordSet.setInt(4,31);
Again, WITH THE STATIC VALUES, THIS WORKS FINE...but when I try to use expressions or variables like below, things don't work:
StatementTestRecordSet.setInt(2,<%= yy %>);
Obviously, I'm doing something wrong, but there has to be a way to use variables within the prepared statement.
ALSO, the values are being passed to this page via URL in the form:
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2. The battery is defective
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Sorry for this long posting. I wish you luck and hope you will clarify this issue very soon.
Bye and good luck!

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Hi,
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