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I am developing a j2me program that need display photos on a form like a photo gallery. I use image item to hold the resized photos on a form.
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x x x
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the programm is working fine on the emulator and nokia phone, but when I try on a Windows Mobile phone (HTC the JVM is Jbed) , It only display one photo in a row, like this
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The only way to get more consistent behavior across devices is to use the low level API -- Canvas, not Form. You cannot interfere with device-dependent implementations of the layout of a Form.
db

I need heed help for Handle the JButton

hi, guys
I am writing a small program
It has name and number field.
It also has the first, privious, next , last and add buttons.
i want to load the myData.txt file to the name and number field.
and I want to make the buttons handle the events.
and when the application is closed, it will save the data into the files.
I can assign the the add button to save the files, and save the data when it is closed, but I can not make it save more than one record.
i need ur help to the rest of the buttons, and load the file back to the field.
andy suggestion would be great!
Thank !
here codes
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   import java.awt.event.*;
   import java.awt.*;
   import javax.swing.event.*;
   import java.io.*;
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      private JButton prev;
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         number = new JTextField(5);
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are you trying to load a multi line textfile int a JTextField? If you try to load this in a while loop as you read the file, it will zoom through the file, and you will probably only see the last line of the file (or nothing if the last line is blank) in the jtextfield. Consider using a JTextArea or some other component that can hold multiple lines. Also your file reading method calls look wrong to me. You appear to read a line, then continually check if that one read line is null, and if not do a while loop, that looks to loop forever. Look at the java I/O examples for how to do this right.
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Heed help/Button

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HEED HELP QUICLKY!!! Please respond!

Hi all. I sold my iBook a couple of months ago to someone over the internet. Everything was fine until I got an email from him this morning stating that he tried to purchase Applecare, but could not because the computer was now past the 1 year mark for purchasing it.
He is stating that the original purchase date was October 6, 2005- but I know for a fact that the original purchase date was October 14, 2005- which means tomorow will be one year.
I am 99.9% certain that I gave him the orignal purchase reciept, but he says doesn't have it. I have asked him for the serial number, but I have not gotten a response yet.
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You won't find any help from Apple on these forums, as they are Volunteer Based. Your best bet is to go back to Apple and speak with a supervisor until you get this resolved. My Mom had a philosphy for resolving purchase disputes - keep asking for the next level of supervision until you get to the person who agrees with you. The higher up you go, the less that person wants to get bogged down in the details. Hope this gets resolved to your satisfaction.
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Report Sections - Heed help

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Anyone knows how to work with Report Sections programatically? I need to be able to add/delete certain objects in some sections of my report at run time. Also, how can I load different pictures/images at run time?
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Heed help in Xpath query??

Hello,
It is an interesting forum. Here is my situation. I have the following XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DepartmentList>
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          <DeptName>ACCOUNTING</DeptName>
          <Location>NEW YORK</Location>
          <Employee>
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               <Job>MANAGER</Job>
               <Manager>7839</Manager>
               <Hiredate>09-JUN-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>2450</Salary>
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          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7839</EmployeeId>
               <Name>KING</Name>
               <Job>PRESIDENT</Job>
               <Hiredate>17-NOV-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>5000</Salary>
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          <Employee>
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               <Name>MILLER</Name>
               <Job>CLERK</Job>
               <Manager>7782</Manager>
               <Hiredate>23-JAN-82</Hiredate>
               <Salary>1300</Salary>
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     </Department>
     <Department>
          <DeptNo>20</DeptNo>
          <DeptName>RESEARCH</DeptName>
          <Location>DALLAS</Location>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7369</EmployeeId>
               <Name>SMITH</Name>
               <Job>CLERK</Job>
               <Manager>7902</Manager>
               <Hiredate>17-DEC-80</Hiredate>
               <Salary>800</Salary>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7566</EmployeeId>
               <Name>JONES</Name>
               <Job>MANAGER</Job>
               <Manager>7839</Manager>
               <Hiredate>02-APR-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>2975</Salary>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7788</EmployeeId>
               <Name>SCOTT</Name>
               <Job>ANALYST</Job>
               <Manager>7566</Manager>
               <Hiredate>19-APR-87</Hiredate>
               <Salary>3000</Salary>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7876</EmployeeId>
               <Name>ADAMS</Name>
               <Job>CLERK</Job>
               <Manager>7788</Manager>
               <Hiredate>23-MAY-87</Hiredate>
               <Salary>1100</Salary>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7902</EmployeeId>
               <Name>FORD</Name>
               <Job>ANALYST</Job>
               <Manager>7566</Manager>
               <Hiredate>03-DEC-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>3000</Salary>
          </Employee>
     </Department>
     <Department>
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          <DeptName>SALES</DeptName>
          <Location>CHICAGO</Location>
          <Employee>
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               <Job>SALESMAN</Job>
               <Manager>7698</Manager>
               <Hiredate>20-FEB-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>1600</Salary>
               <Commission>300</Commission>
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               <Manager>7698</Manager>
               <Hiredate>22-FEB-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>1250</Salary>
               <Commission>500</Commission>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7654</EmployeeId>
               <Name>MARTIN</Name>
               <Job>SALESMAN</Job>
               <Manager>7698</Manager>
               <Hiredate>28-SEP-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>1250</Salary>
               <Commission>1400</Commission>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7698</EmployeeId>
               <Name>BLAKE</Name>
               <Job>MANAGER</Job>
               <Manager>7839</Manager>
               <Hiredate>01-MAY-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>2850</Salary>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7844</EmployeeId>
               <Name>TURNER</Name>
               <Job>SALESMAN</Job>
               <Manager>7698</Manager>
               <Hiredate>08-SEP-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>1500</Salary>
               <Commission>0</Commission>
          </Employee>
          <Employee>
               <EmployeeId>7900</EmployeeId>
               <Name>JAMES</Name>
               <Job>CLERK</Job>
               <Manager>7698</Manager>
               <Hiredate>03-DEC-81</Hiredate>
               <Salary>950</Salary>
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     <Department>
          <DeptNo>40</DeptNo>
          <DeptName>OPERATIONS</DeptName>
          <Location>BOSTON</Location>
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</DepartmentList>
It was stored in XMLTYPE table TESTXML
I have following queries
1) Select extractvalue(value(q),'//Employee')
from TESTXML x
, TABLE(XMLSEQUENCE(EXTRACT(value(x), '//Department/employee'))) p
, TABLE(XMLSEQUENCE(EXTRACT(value(p), '//Employee'))) q
2) Select extractvalue(value(q),'//Department')
from TESTXML x
, TABLE(XMLSEQUENCE(EXTRACT(value(x), '//Department/employee'))) p
, TABLE(XMLSEQUENCE(EXTRACT(value(p), '//Employee'))) q
I am getting no rows selected .
the query
Select extractvalue(value(p),'//Department')
from TESTXML x
, TABLE(XMLSEQUENCE(EXTRACT(value(x), '//Department'))) p
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-19025: EXTRACTVALUE returns value of only one node
How do we query on above XML using Xpath such as list of all departments, list of employees within department?
Thanks in advance.
Ram

Ram
I suggest you take the time to study the XML DB standard demo in some detail. It answer this and many of the other questions that you are asking. The answer to this question is to use xmlsequence, which allows the set of nodes which match your xpath expressed to be treated as a virtual table.
-Mark

Home laser printer printing questions

Hi,
I want to by a laser printer for home. Heed help from those who have experience:
I have local network, so I can either use USB with print server or network printer. I found that CUPS drivers are required for network printing (print server) in OS X. Is it true? Are there other caveats? Network ready printers are more expensive.
I need to print maps, like orienteering maps. Will 600x600 dpi be sufficient?
There is a photopaper for laser printers in the local computer store. However, people say that cheap laser printers will not produce smooth gradient of halftones. What quality can I expect from laser printer + photopaper (designed for laserprints)?
Does postscript support influence quality? There are OS X compatible printers (have OS X driver) that seem to use PCL or just emulate postscript, is it essential?
Thank you for any input.

Thank you for the input
I'd expect to pay anywhere from $300 to $400 to have a nice home laser printer
I have color and b/w printers at work and most of my reading can be fit into my duties as I am a researcher at the university. I need to print last minute materials, mostly schemes/maps or addresses when I am off to some trip. I think that with the infrequent load the ink will get dry in an ink printer and the price of ink scares me too. I expect $200
It may have USB, but Ethernet would be a must for may list.
Why? I have an older Mac with OS X, it can serve the printer to the outer world. What are the caveats? If it gets broken I can connect USB printer anywhere (iBook).
I wouldn't use it to print photo-grade images with.
Have you tried photopaper for laser printers??
All "applications" produce postscript output. Drivers, when required, convert
the postscript to the page language required for the specific printer model
(like PCL for many HP printers, or ESC P/2 for many Epsons, etc). Postscript
printers all have a postscript interpreter built into the hardware - to take
input and create an image of the printed page.
I was thinking if a printer has a postscript interpeter, and OSX is sending
data to it from the open application, doesn't that mean OSX is sending
postscript data to the printer since it touches the data last as it leaves the
Mac?
I think, that there are printers that understand PS and that means that you can send PS file to the printer in a raw mode (lpr -l) and it will be printed. In the same way there are PCL printers that you can send raw PCL file to. PCL file is a usual windows .prn file when you “print to file” on HP printer. The GDI printer understand no language, so that all should be passed through the driver (and GDI will work with OS X or Linux only if there is a driver for OS X).
Here I repeat my Q: I heard that PCL overoptimize PS data upon conversion and thus reduce the print quality. Is it true?
I recently bought a Brother HL-2040 to be shared at a lab at school. I got it
in part because it comes with CUPS drivers. I already had a very old and
cheap print server, and I'm able to print to it from PCs and OS X Macs in the
lab, via LPD or appletalk. It's 600x600 dpi and excellent quality - we only
use plain paper. I think it would be good for orienteering, too. Pretty darn
good for a $100 printer!
Thank you. I also though that 600x600 will be sufficient. Is this 1200x1200 a sort of marketing trick?

Why does my ipad wi-fi connection shut down and wont reconnect ?

I purchased an ipad 4 days ago. I set it up with relative ease everything was working well . Two days ago Iost my wi-fi connection. I took two hours getting my wi-fi connection re-established. Lost re-connect almost imediately. I restored the system. Problem continued. Called tech support, Told that what I had done should resolve problem. Since it did not I was told I should take the i pad to the nearest Apple store. This Apple store is 40 minutes from my home. I heed help to solve my problem. Please Help, David Lively

I purchased an ipad 4 days ago. I set it up with relative ease everything was working well . Two days ago Iost my wi-fi connection. I took two hours getting my wi-fi connection re-established. Lost re-connect almost imediately. I restored the system. Problem continued. Called tech support, Told that what I had done should resolve problem. Since it did not I was told I should take the i pad to the nearest Apple store. This Apple store is 40 minutes from my home. I heed help to solve my problem. Please Help, David Lively

Need help choosing optimal hardware for a laptop that will run AE CS5

BACKGROUND INFO (Questions listed below)
I need some help figuring out the best hardware configuration for a new laptop. I’m a student at a design school and I will be using the laptop to mainly run After Effects and to a lesser extent Photoshop and Illustrator. I don’t need to worry about 3D rendering software or Premier Pro. I am primarily interested in getting the best performance during editing. I am not looking for the best performance for final output. I would prefer to sacrifice final output times for better editing/interface performance.
I will be working with standard definition content and perhaps HD up to 720p on occasion. I do not need to operate in resolutions higher than 720p. My projects are generally animation and use many sources and many layers.
I’ve been reading up on optimal hardware configurations for CS5 but my understanding is still a little foggy and I would like to use this thread to figure out how to build the best machine for my budget. The budget is about $1400 to $1600 CANADIAN after tax.
I DON’T need help finding the laptop. I will search for it on my own. I just need to understand the best hardware to purchase within my budget.
I realize that it is probably impossible to buy the laptop I want with the hardware configuration I need “off the shelf”. Instead I will be looking for a good base model (~$900-$1100) and I will purchase the necessary hardware upgrades separately. I will not be purchasing a Mac.
Right now I’m thinking of a machine built something like this:
- 15”-16” screen (17” models are too big/heavy)
- Mid to high end i5 processor OR entry level i7 quad core
- 8GB RAM (I would go to 12GB, but it’s hard to find a 15”-16” laptop with 3 memory slots)
- SSD to replace HDD (However, if possible, I would like a laptop with dual HDD support or swap the optical drive for another HDD. If I had access to 2 drives, I would have and HDD/SSD combo).
- Medium/high end NVIDIA GPU to take advantage of OpenGL while editing.
QUESTIONS
1) Does the “Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously” option enhance general editing performance (applying filters, scrubbing through the timeline, reverting history states)? Or does it ONLY help speed up RAM previews and final output? Does it reduce the length of RAM previews?
1b) Is this option even necessary to enable on 64bit systems? (As far as I understand it was used to solve a problem where 32bit systems/software would only recognize 4GB of RAM per instance of AE).
1c) If I turn this option on to help with RAM previews, would I be hindering general editing performance in any way? Or does this option have basically zero drawbacks?
2) How come “Actual CPUs that will be used” will read 0 even if the sum total of RAM assigned to the CPUs plus the RAM reserved for other applications is less than the total available system RAM (on a 64bit system)? For example, I currently have 4GB RAM and 2 installed CPUs. I have 1.5GB reserved for other programs and when I set 0.75GB per CPU both CPUs are used. However when I set 1GB per CPU then 0 CPUs are used, even though the total RAM adds up to only 3.5GB.
CPU
3.) Considering the fact that I am more concerned with smooth performance while editing rather than final output speeds, would it be better to get a dual core i5 clocked around 2.5 or a quad core i7 clocked around 1.8?
4.) What is the difference between an i3 and an i5 processor even if they are clocked at the same speed? How does an i5 460M compare on the grand scheme of things?
RAM
6.) Should the quantity of RAM that I get (8GB vs 12GB) be based on the number of cores in my CPU? If so, how should I be calculating optimal RAM based on # of cores. Should I also be counting threads, or just actual physical cores?
STORAGE/SWAP
7.) Should I replace the HDD with an SSD? I'm looking for snappy interface performance while editing. I would think that if the RAM fills up it would be best to have the SSD for scratch/cache.
8.) What performance benchmarks are most important when considering an SSD for After Effects? (4k writes? IOs per second? Max read/write?)
9.) I can afford the OCZ Vertex2 120GB SSD. Would this be a good choice if an SSD is recommended?
10.) Would it be better to have 8GB of RAM and an SSD, or 12GB of RAM and an HDD? Explain why.
GPU
10.) After Effects utilizes OpenGL to enhance editing performance. I will not really be using Premier Pro, so catering to the CUDA Mercury Engine is not a concern. Do high end gaming cards provide significant gains in OpenGL performance? Or do OpenGL performance gains taper off around the mid-range GPUs? (i.e. can you justify buying a high end GTX 260M graphics card for enhanced editing performance versus an "entry level" dedicated card like the 310M?)
11.) What hardware specs are most important when considering a GPU for editing performance in AE? (Memory size? # of Pixel shaders? Core speed? Shader speed?)
Thanks so much for any answers you can offer to these questions.

Please make sure that you've read through this page and what it points to.
> 1) Does the “Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously” option
enhance general editing performance (applying filters, scrubbing through
the timeline, reverting history states)? Or does it ONLY help speed up
RAM previews and final output? Does it reduce the length of RAM
previews?
It only increases rendering speed for RAM previews and rendering for final output. In After Effects CS5, it doesn't decrease the length of RAM previews. (In CS4, it does.)
1b) Is this option even necessary to enable on 64bit
systems? (As far as I understand it was used to solve a problem where
32bit systems/software would only recognize 4GB of RAM per instance of
AE).
You misunderstood. Yes, it's still relevant on 64-bit computers. Moreso, in a way. (I'd rather not spend my entire Sunday writing out detailed answers to satisfy idle curiosity, so I'm not going to give all the technical detail to that answer.)
> 1c) If I turn this option on to help with RAM previews,
would I be hindering general editing performance in any way? Or does
this option have basically zero drawbacks?
It takes a small but nonzero time for the background processes to start up when they need to be used and shut down when they're done. And as they sit waiting, they take up a little bit of memory. So, it's not exactly correct to say that there are no downsides to leaving it on. But it's close. I leave it on.
> 2) How come “Actual CPUs that will be used” will read 0 even
if the sum total of RAM assigned to the CPUs plus the RAM reserved for
other applications is less than the total available system RAM (on a
64bit system)? For example, I currently have 4GB RAM and 2 installed
CPUs. I have 1.5GB reserved for other programs and when I set 0.75GB per
CPU both CPUs are used. However when I set 1GB per CPU then 0 CPUs are
used, even though the total RAM adds up to only 3.5GB.
4GB - 1.5GB for other software leaves 2.5 GB for After Effects.
If you have 1GB assigned per background CPU, then the foreground takes 1.2x that = 1.2GB. That leaves 1.3GB for background processes, which is enough for one background process. There's no point in starting only one background process to do rendering, so it doesn't bother. (Note: When background processes are rendering, the foreground process isn't rendering.)
> 3.) Considering the fact that I am more concerned with
smooth performance while editing rather than final output speeds, would
it be better to get a dual core i5 clocked around 2.5 or a quad core i7
clocked around 1.8?
Get the quad-core. That gives you a greater total number of cycles. And After Effects works very well with mutliple processors, even beyond Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously multiprocessing. An entirely unrelated sort of multiprocessing (multithreading) spreads work out to multiple processors.
> 6.) Should the quantity of RAM that I get (8GB vs 12GB) be based on the number of cores in my CPU? If
so, how should I be calculating optimal RAM based on # of cores. Should
I also be counting threads, or just actual physical cores?
The optimum amount is the amount that you can cram into the computer. I'm not kidding. Spend your budget on RAM until you have 4GB installed per processor (and I'm counting the virtual processors due to hyperthreading). If you have a quad-core, that's 8 CPUs with hyperthreading, so the optimum amount of RAM installed is 32GB. You can work with less, but you did ask about optimum. For HD work (i.e., 1920 pixels across), you're OK with more like 3GB installed per CPU. That's what I have at home: 24GB in a quad-core. You're going to assign 2/3 or so of the RAM to After Effects, so 3GB installed per CPU is 2GB per core for HD work in After Effects.
> 10.) Would it be better to have 8GB of RAM and an SSD, or 12GB of RAM and an HDD? Explain why.
12GB of RAM. Because After Effects likes RAM. (If you're thinking of deliberatly using virtual memory to swap memory to the hard disk, don't. That's a performance killer.)
> 10.) After Effects utilizes OpenGL to enhance editing performance.
Not really. If you're on a limited budget, don't even think about the GPU until you've already got the most RAM, the fastest CPUs, the largest number of CPUs, two fast hard disks, and a couple of good monitors. Then, and only then, should you even consider getting soemthing beyond a non-stock graphics card. Yes, OpenGL can be used to accelerate some things, but that's only for the low-fidelity preview renderer. (Pardon the bluntness, but I want to make sure that you heed this.)

Hello, help on action script please.

Hello,
I heed some help on creating a button in flash,I need the
steps to create a button that links to a website.
Thanks in advance.

The Help in Flash is quite thorough. Do a search for "create
button" and "getURL".
But basically, create a button image on the stage, select it
and hit F8 then choose button as your symbol type. Now give your
button an instance name... for example "myBtn_btn". Then in frame
one, of the timeline where your button sits and on a layer for
actions put the following code:

Help with writing to a file

First off...I'm just a student so please bear with me...
I'm having problems with the following bit of code. I don't seem to be understanding the correct way to write to a file. It's not a complete program and my drop down box isn't set up to write yet...but I'm just trying to get SOMETHING as output to the file. Any help is appreciated! Here's my code:
Mid-Term Test
Programmer: Abraham Violett
Date: 8-12-04
Filename: MowersInc.java
Purpose: This will be a data entry and retrival system
for a
small lawn mowing company.
import java.io.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class MowersInc extends JFrame implements ActionListener
JLabel blankLabel = new JLabel("");
JLabel titleLabel = new JLabel(" Mowers Incorporated");
JLabel firstNameLabel = new JLabel("First Name:");
JTextField firstNameTextField = new JTextField(15);
JTextField lastNameTextField = new JTextField(15);
JLabel lastNameLabel = new JLabel("Last Name:");
JComboBox lawnSizeCombo = new JComboBox();
JButton submitInfoButton = new JButton("Submit");
JButton clearInfoButton = new JButton("Clear");
DataOutputStream output;
public MowersInc()
super("Mowers Inc.");
try
output = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("customers.dat"));
catch(IOException io)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Could not create storage location.", "Error", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
System.exit(1);
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
String arg = e.getActionCommand();
int fee;
if (e.getSource() == lawnSizeCombo)
switch (lawnSizeCombo.getSelectedIndex())
case 0:
fee = 50;
break;
case 1:
fee = 75;
break;
default:
break;
if(arg == "Submit")
try
output.writeUTF(firstNameLabel.getText());
output.writeUTF(lastNameLabel.getText());
catch(IOException io)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Could not create storage location.", "Error", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
System.exit(1);
public Container createContentPane()
lawnSizeCombo.addItem("Please select Lawn Size...");
lawnSizeCombo.addItem("Lawn less than 1000 sq/ft.");
lawnSizeCombo.addItem("Lawn more than 1000 sq/ft.");
lawnSizeCombo.addActionListener(this);
JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel();
mainPanel.add(titleLabel);
mainPanel.add(blankLabel);
mainPanel.add(firstNameLabel);
mainPanel.add(firstNameTextField);
mainPanel.add(lastNameLabel);
mainPanel.add(lastNameTextField);
mainPanel.add(lawnSizeCombo);
mainPanel.add(blankLabel);
mainPanel.add(submitInfoButton);
mainPanel.add(clearInfoButton);
lawnSizeCombo.setToolTipText("Select the appropriate lawn size from this list.");
mainPanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
//mainPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(6, 2, 10, 10));
return mainPanel;
public static void main(String args[])
MowersInc test = new MowersInc();
test.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
test.setContentPane(test.createContentPane());
test.setSize(200, 215);
test.setVisible(true);
//lawnSize.addItem("Less than 1000 sqr/ft.");
//lawnSize.addItem("More than 1000 sqr/ft.");
}

Use a program development method called Stepwise
Refinement. Start out with a small working program.
Then expand it little by little and in each step make
sure that it works and you understand why. Very soon
you have a big working program. Try it, it always
works -:)Pay heed to UlrikaJ -:) sweety's advice, you'll be happy! ;-)
UlrikaJ cutie would you like to go out with me someday? : )

PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME IM BESIDES MYSELFPLZ!!!

MY IPOD KEPP SHOWING A SCREEN WITH A CARTOON SKETCH OF A IPOD WITH A SAD FACE AND A EXCLAMATION MARK WITHINK A TRIANGLE PLEASE HELP ME IVE TRIED CONNECTING IT TO THE COMP RESETTING IT NOTHING WILL WORK MY IPOD IS MY LIFE I CANT SLEEP WITHOUT IT LITERALLY ALL MY MUSIC IS ON IT AND I CANT BARE TO LOSE THE DATA! ITS RELATIVELY NEW AS WELL ONLY ABOUT 6 MONTHS OLD ITS 60 GB PLEASE!!!

Please, please stop shouting at us. (Turn off your caps lock key).
Most likely you have a damaged hard drive. You can try the steps in the post by Mitch in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2369954#2369954
Just heed the warnings in his post, you can end up voiding the warranty.
Did you enter your serial number and country in the link I provided? If you are in warranty it should have given you information on how to do an online request for a repair.
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