Need some home audio help

Hello everyone
i am looking to turn my basement into a party room and in total the basement is probably 200 sq ft or so, give or take.
i was wanting to buy an mtx loud speaker and it is between these
MTX Audio TP2400
MTX Audio TP1200
MTX Audio TP1100
so here are the questions i have
1) should i buy 2 of those or just have 1
2) what is a good amp. that i dont need to spend a fortune on?
i personally think i should get the two 10" speakers but i dont know an amp

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dekenx wrote:
Hello everyone,
I've recently been working on a game project with network capabilities.
I need to be able to send data to a client and vice-versa for both a client and a host.
Say whenever a player moves a character it should send the new coords, etc to the other person
I have all the networking through a Host and Client class done already, with methods like sendData(String[] data) and getData(). What I need is some sort of update thread in the main program to send this data without stopping the flow of the program.Sounds like a producer/consumer pattern. You produce move data, put it on a queue, and go on with the game. Meanwhile, a consumer thread reads from the queue of move data and pushes it over the network to the other side.
I was thinking maybe a inner class inside the main program which extends a thread but I'm not sure how to implement that.
Please help if you can. Thanks.
P.S - Would maybe making the Host and Client classes extend Thread work too?
(Then I can do all the threading inside there instead)The inner class or deciding which class to have extend Thread are implementation details you shouldn't be thinking about until you have a good understanding of the overall approach.
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Gotcha gotcha, I was thinking someone could just simply eyeball my code and see if anything was off balance. Gimme a sec, will make this compile ready.
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class Network extends NodePanel {
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import java.util.HashMap;
class NodeCoordinates {
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     void storeCoordinates(Integer key, Integer[] value){
          nodeCoordsHash.put(key, value);
     //retrieve node's coordinates from a hashmap by passing an Integer as key to the function
     Integer[] retrieveCoordinates(Integer key){
          return nodeCoordsHash.get(key);
     //access hashmap size from other classes
     int retrieveNodeCoordsHashMapSize(){
          return nodeCoordsHash.size();
}NodePanel.java
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;
//panel for drawing nodes
class NodePanel extends JPanel implements MouseListener {
     int nodeCounter = -2;
     private Graphics g;
     Integer[] coordsArray = new Integer[2];          //array for holding node coordinates [0] holds X, [1] holds Y
     NodeCoordinates nodeCoords = new NodeCoordinates();
     NodePanel() {
     Component setNodePanelProperties() {
          addMouseListener(this);
          setBackground(Color.white);
          setPreferredSize(new Dimension(800, 600));
          //nodePanel.setBorder(new javax.swing.border.LineBorder(Color.black));
          return this;
     public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {}
     public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {}
     public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {}
     public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
          nodeCounter++;
          g = getGraphics();
          //mark the first node as the nest
          if (nodeCounter == 0){
               coordsArray[0] = e.getX();
               coordsArray[1] = e.getY();
               g.setColor(Color.GRAY);
               g.fillOval(coordsArray[0] - 12, e.getY() - 12, 35, 35);
               g.drawString(Integer.toString(nodeCounter), coordsArray[0] - 12, coordsArray[1] - 12);
               g.setColor(Color.WHITE);
               g.drawString("Nest", coordsArray[0]-7, e.getY()+10);
               //place coordinates in a hashmap, key as node's number, and value as an array,
               //[0] contains x coordinates, [1] contains y coordinates
               nodeCoords.storeCoordinates(new Integer(nodeCounter), coordsArray);
               System.out.println(nodeCoords.retrieveCoordinates(nodeCounter)[0] + " - " + nodeCoords.retrieveCoordinates(nodeCounter)[1]);
               System.out.println("Is the NodePanel.java hash empty? " + nodeCoords.nodeCoordsHash.isEmpty() + " hashmap size: " + nodeCoords.retrieveNodeCoordsHashMapSize());
          //default action on mouse click
          else if (nodeCounter > 0){
               coordsArray[0] = e.getX();
               coordsArray[1] = e.getY();
               g.setColor(Color.GRAY);
               g.fillOval(coordsArray[0] - 12, coordsArray[1] - 12, 24, 24);
               g.drawString(Integer.toString(nodeCounter), coordsArray[0] - 12, coordsArray[1] - 12);
               //place coordinates in a hashmap, key as node's number, and value as an array,
               //[0] contains x coordinates, [1] contains y coordinates
               nodeCoords.storeCoordinates(new Integer(nodeCounter), coordsArray);
               System.out.println(nodeCoords.retrieveCoordinates(nodeCounter)[0] + " - " + nodeCoords.retrieveCoordinates(nodeCounter)[1]);
               System.out.println("Is the NodePanel.java hash empty? " + nodeCoords.nodeCoordsHash.isEmpty() + " hashmap size: " + nodeCoords.retrieveNodeCoordsHashMapSize());
          g.dispose();
     public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {}
     public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {}
     public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {}
}Ant.java
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.Queue;
//ant class used for traversing the graph/network
class Ant extends NodePanel {
     Network network = new Network();
     Queue nodeQueue = new LinkedList(); //queue for determining which path the ant took
     Ant() {
          travel();
     void travel() {
          System.out.println("Is the Ant.java hash empty? " + nodeCoords.nodeCoordsHash.isEmpty() + " hashmap size: " + nodeCoords.retrieveNodeCoordsHashMapSize());
}Edited by: CheeseMelt on Sep 25, 2009 9:00 PM
Edited by: CheeseMelt on Sep 25, 2009 9:01 PM

Need some more scripting help

[I'll be posting this over on the Google Group forum too.]
File is here: https://acrobat.com/#d=m7zuQYiUoFrtz5isD7rErQ
Form is a series of tables that can expand and contract their respective rows by clicking a button in the header - tables start out collapsed and filler can open the appropriate tables. I'm using + and - values on the buttons to check what they should do - they call a script object which handles looping through the table rows, etc (thanks Niall!).
I also have similar loops set up on prePrint and docReady (on the form1 root) events so that the tables collapse down to only used rows for printing or after the form is saved and re-opened.
I'm having a few issues that I'm having trouble figuring out. I'm thinking some of the problems might even have to do with which events I'm using but not sure.
Resetting the value of the +/- button in the header rows:
Unless a table is expanded and has rows that are empty showing I want the button caption to be a +. I've been trying to explicitly set this as part of the different loops but seem to be having issues.
Problem with repeating header button caption:
If a table breaks across a page, the button in the repeated header row doesn't reflect the caption of the button in the parent header row. I kind-of fixed this with some code from Paul Guerett which sets the caption based on xfa.layout.pageSpan and it works but if you click the repeated button again to collapse the table the main button caption doesn't update (should change back to a +), unless you click on the main button.
Related to this one is when the file is saved and re-opened table headers that had been repeated show random multiple time (2-5 generally).
I also ran into some trouble with Reader when using Unicode characters for the button caption. Instead of +/- I was trying to use \u25BC and \u25B2 (down and up triangles) but Reader seemed to choke on it.
This form is ready to go except for these couple of issues that I can't seem to track down.

Hi Jono,
Here is the form with a few mods: https://acrobat.com/#d=rXwdoCcfDC0pWQz-39KWjg
In relation to the repeating headers, I think the main problem is that the HeaderRow was set to repeat in the Object > Binding tab. I have deselected this. However you would need to test. I have seen this before and to get over it I have wrapped the header in a separate subform. I don't want to do it here because of the scripting, but see how you get on.
On the reset button, I have included a execEvent for the docReady event in the form1 node. This resets the "+".
Where a table spans more than one page (generating another "-" button). I have included another line to reset the original button back to "+":
xfa.resolveNode("HeaderRow[0].Button1.caption.value.#text").value = "+";
This seems to work.
I haven't looked at the unicodes. I would stick with the +/-, as these are self evident and you will be less likely to have compatibility problems.
Form looks good!
Good luck,
Niall

I need some one's help making a scrolling list of links

I am working on a project where I need to make a list of
links that are text and can be manipulated like buttons and also
scroll mabey using the scroller from the components section in
Flash. Please help if you are able by responding to this post.
AN EXAMPLE OS WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO IS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF
THE PAGE OF ( www.streamingfaith.com)
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Great assignment (congratulations to your lecturer/professor/teacher, I'd give that 8 or 9 out of 10). I hope noone does it for you and spoils your fun!

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