Overlapping Places

Is anybody else experiencing problems with overlapping places? In iPhoto 09 I had many manually defined places which overlapped. This is inevitable in a small city like Basel with a picturesque old city and the limitation that places be circles and not, say, some other regular geometric shape. When the iPhoto 09 library was converted by iPhoto 11, the photos that I had assigned to places that overlapped or were totally contained within other places were assigned to the wrong places, or to none at all. Shrinking the circles around the places to avoid overlap did not solve the problem, but did allow me to reassign the photos to the right places.
The problem would seem not to be limited to converted libraries, however. Yesterday I assigned a photo to a new place. I selected the photo, clicked on the little "i", let iPhoto 11 search for "Sattelgasse 11", which it found and I confirmed. This apparently had a default radius which caused it to overlap other places, and all **** broke loose again. Suddenly, photos assigned to "Marktplatz" and "Andreasplatz" were reassigned to "Sattelgasse 11", and even shrinking the radius of "Sattelgasse 11" in Manage My Places couldn't correct the problem. There seems to be no way to adjust the size of places in the "teeny tiny" map dialog, so this problem seems to be unavoidable.

Don't have a solution for you but be sure to report the issue to Apple and request a new feature to allow us better control over the pins via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html.
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How to create a new place in iPhoto 11 without doing any harm?

Yes, I know how to create a new place for a photo -- theoretically:
Select the photo.
Make sure the Info icon in the lower right portion of the iPhoto window is clicked and the too-tiny-for-any-but-the-youngest-eyes map is displaying.
Click in "Assign a Place..." and begin typing a place that iPhoto will search for. It searches in both "your places" (i.e., those that you have already defined) as well as in Google Maps.
When you see a place in the search results list that you think might be close to the one you mean, select it.
A pin appears on the itsy-bitsy map. Move it to the exact place you mean. You can make controls appear on the map by moving the mouse over the bottom of the map. The controls allow you to zoom in and out, and to change views (Terrain, Satellite, Hybrid). When the pin is where you want it, click it. The current name of the location appears. Modify it to the name you want, then click the check mark.
That's "all" there is to it ... except for a couple of "gotchas."
There's a difference between what happens when you select a place that you've defined and when you select a place that Google found in the search results. If it's a place that you've defined, and you then move the pin to a new location and/or change its name, this will affect all photos assigned to the custom place. In effect, you are modifying the place.
All places have a radius associated with them, thereby making them circles. You can adjust the radius only in the Maintain My Places window. In the itsy-bitsy map it doesn't even appear. However, if the newly defined place overlaps existing ones, all the photos assigned to the overlapped places will be assigned to the new one. Their pins will remain where they were.
Now, before anybody suggests sending feedback to Apple, let me emphasize that I have been sending Apple feedback on the wrong-headed implementation of Places since iPhoto 9.0. New versions have come and gone (the current one is 9.1.2), but these "features" have remained. So my purpose in opening this thread is to consolidate work arounds to these "features" in one place. My work around:
Whenever I define a new place, I select only a single photo. I try to name my places so that I can distinguish them from those that Google finds. In order to avoid Gotcha 1 I select a place that Google finds and try to place the pin close enough to where I want it, but far enough from any other places that I've defined. I give it a name that I can easily find it Manage My Place.
I immediately open Manage My Places and select the new place. I first note the pins near it, then decrease its radius, move the pin to the desired location, note the nearby places, and give it its final name.
I then view Places and navigate to the new place to view the photos assigned to it. If I'm lucky, there's only one. Otherwise, I have to reassign the other photos to their correct places.
Richard

So... in the hope it will not confuse folks more, let me be more specific of a procedure that works for me...
Procedure to create a new My Places location.
OK there is more you can do with a non-GPS Coord linked photo.
Click Info and then click Assign a Place in the lower right of screen. (if your photo has a location linked to it already the Assign a Place will NOT show up.)
Choose a location name near the actual location that Google Maps can find.
Click that location in the Google Maps list that appears and your photo will be temporarily assigned to that location.
Now type over that location name in order to make sure to give that location a unique name that will show up in your My Places list and click that name after you have typed it to be sure it is accepted.
Now in iPhoto click Window/Manage My Places and go the that newly named location in the large My Places map. There's no easy search. You have to run down through the alphabetical list.
Drag the flag to the location you want this place to be and click Done.
The location name is now in your My Places list at the location you dragged the flag to!
It is important to note that only your unique named locations show up in your Places list, so if you want to modify the location coordinates you have to establish a unique name for it.
This is much more complicated that previous iPhoto versions!
But Yeah!!!!!!!!!!
It really works!!!!!!!

Why is using Places in iPhoto 11 such a hairy hassle?

Here is the feedback that I just sent to Apple:
"Why is defining a place such a hassle? Don't bother telling me the steps -- I know them too well. Tell me why, when I select a photo, type something in the teeny-weeny Assign a Place... dialog, then select one of the suggestions, what happens next depends on whether the selected suggestion is a custom place or one that Google found? Tell me why, if it's the former and I move the pin around and assign it a new name, I effectively modify the place, just as if I were working in Manage my Places, whereas if it's the latter, I define a new custom place? Tell me why, if the custom place that I define happens to overlap other custom places, the photos assigned to them will be reassigned to the new custom place? Tell me why I can't adjust the radius of the place in the teeny-weeny Assign a Place... dialog to prevent that from happening ... by the time I do that in Manage my Places it's too late! Tell me why, with every new version of iPhoto 11 the usability of Places just gets worse?"
Of course, I don't expect Apple to answer, but I would appreciate any hints for solving, or, at least, avoid the problems described above. They weren't problems in the previous major version of iPhoto.
The latest patch, 9.1.3, seems to have brought new Places problems. I assigned a photo to Martinskirchplatz in Basel. It wasn't in My Places, so it's a place that iPhoto found through Google. Naturally, it overlapped other custom places nearby: Rheinsprung, Alte Universität von Basel, Basler Rathaus. So, after adjusting the radius of Martinskirchplatz in Manage my Places to avoid overlapping them, I switched to the Places view and selected Martinskirchplatz to see all the photos that really belonged to the overlapped places but had been reassigned, and painfully assigned them back to the correct places. Then I found a photo that I had originally assigned to Rheinsprung and reassigned it to Martinskirchplatz, since that's exactly where I had taken it. When I exited Places, re-entered and selected Martinskirchplatz, only the photo for which I had defined that place was there, not the one that I had reassigned to it. No matter what I did, I could not convince iPhoto to show me both photos for that place, despite the fact that, in the Info displays for both the place was correct, and it only appears once in Manage my Places. So I decided to repair and rebuild the library, and iPhoto decided to surprise me by only retaining the places for photos taken with the iPhone (presumably because they contain the GPS coordinates). WHO UNDERSTANDS THAT Rebuild Library from backup MEANS THAT CUSTOM PLACES WILL BE LOST? Just what kind of backup is it that doesn't backup the places?
Regards,
Richard

The problem with Places is not the development, but the design, so learning how to develop (I presume you mean program) an application isn't going bring you any closer to understanding why Places doesn't "work." In fact, Apple's refusal to address the problem of overlapping custom places indicates that this is the way it's supposed to work, but Apple provides no explanation about the underlying model, i.e., how we're supposed to think about custom places.
As nearly as I can tell, custom places are supposed to provide GPS coordinates for photos that don't already have them, or have them wrong. Look at what happens when you import a photo from, say, the iPhone. Provided you haven't switched off the Location facility, the photo has GPS coordinates. And, providing you haven't switched off the option in iPhoto to place photos, iPhoto will look up the coordinates in Google Maps and get the most precise name it can. Apple's solution to the problem of photos which don't have GPS coordinates should have been, allow the user to supply them.
Now, there's a second problem with geo-tagged photos, regardless whether they were automatically or manually tagged. Sometimes we would like to provide a more precise area than Google Maps. For example, Google Maps might supply just the city Basel for photos taken anywhere in Basel, whereas we might want to distinguish various areas in Basel. This, too, has an easy solution. Allow the user to define closed polygons, circles, etc. which constitute a level of detail finer than the finest level that Google Maps supplies. So what if the custom areas overlap? No problem. The photos have coordinates, so if the coordinates of a photo put it in multiple areas, that's OK.
So far, so good. For each problem we have an independent solution. Now, there's a third problem that's specific to manual geo-tagging. Maybe I don't remember or don't care where exactly on the Marktplatz in Basel I took a photo. Why should I have to assign it to a point? Here is where Apple apparently got too clever for its own good. Instead of supplying a separate solution to this problem as well (e.g., by introducing the concept of an area of uncertainty around a point, or by providing a facility to assign a photo the same coordinates as another), we now have what amounts to one solution for two problems: when you think you're defining a custom place, you're really defining a circular area and assigning the photo the coordinates of the center of the circle. So, what's so bad about that? First, the process of defining a new place never makes it clear that it's actually an area that is being defined. Second, even if you're aware of this, you cannot specify the size of the area at the same time that you define it, so there's no way to prevent it from overlapping other places that you've defined. And what is the problem with overlapping? Since the photos are not attached to the areas to which you assign them, but only derive their implicit coordinates from the assignment. Now, anybody could understand that, if two areas overlap sufficiently, in particular, if one overlaps the center of the the other, then the photos assigned to the two places might be displayed when the large place is viewed. But, for some strange reason, reducing the overlap in Manage My Places, or eliminating it altogether, doesn't rectify the problem. Instead you must reassign the "victim" photos of overlap.
The lesson here is: Good design means a single solution to a single problem. Three problems? Three independent solutions! This allows the user to do just what he wants, and to understand what he is doing. Don't want to define an area? Fine. Just assign a coordinate to a photo. Don't want to assign a coordinate, because that would imply precision, or because you don't recall exactly where? Fine. Just define an area of uncertainty and assign the photo to it. As you and/or your needs develop, you can do more sophisticated things with three solutions than with a single one, and you still understand what you're doing.
Somehow I don't believe that Apple doesn't know all this. I could imagine this is an attempt to "simplify" the UI in preparation for supporting a touch interface like that promised for Lion. Unfortunately, the price for reducing three separate operations to a single one is semantic overload and an opaque underlying model.
Richard

How do you deal with weird noise when overlapping identical files in multitrack?

Sometimes when I'm editing I put two files (or two parts of the same file) "over" each other for various reasons - e.g. wanting to x-fade to a different version of the same file.
However, because the files are identical, if they are even a tiny tiny bit out of sync a weird noise is heard when they play and when they're overlapped.
I think this is called "phasing" and I know Audition 3 has phase correction tools which is great, but it seems to only correct cases where the left and right channel are out of phase in a waveform.
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Just upgraded from iPhoto '08 to '11. How do you resize the places circle? Would like Oahu to include the entire island. Grabbing the red pin just moves it around. The Apple tutorial shows resizing a blue pin.

The problem with not being able to adjust the size of the circle before confirming a new place is, there's no way to avoid an initial overlapping of places, and overlapping places seem to cause problems. If you're "lucky," the overlapping will cause the most recent of the overlapping places not to "take," and instead the photos assigned to it will have another place name. If you're unlucky, photos labeled previously and not the object of your attention will be assigned to the newest place, and you may only discover that when you view them the next time. Even in Manage My Places adjusting place radii to avoid overlap is a pain, because (a) you can't search for places there, and (b) when you select a place, only its radius is displayed around its pin, but not those of the other pins in the vicinity.

Cannot restore TM backup of iPhoto Library - insufficient privileges

This seems to be a long-standing problem. I am experiencing problems caused by Apple's lousy implementation of user-defined places in iPhoto 11 and cannot afford to test whether reducing the radius of a place that overlaps one hundred or so other user-defined places will solve the problem, because, if it doesn't -- in versions prior to iPhoto 9.4 doing that caused all photos assigned to the overlapped places to be reassigned to the overlapping place, and the only way to undo the damage was to manually assign them to the correct places -- I cannot restore a previous version of iPhoto Library from a Time Machine backup. When I try to, I receive an error message about having insufficient privileges.
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Richard

See Pondini's TM FAQs, for starters.

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Download iPhoto for Yosemite before it's superceded by Photos

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Thanks for replying. Geotagging in iPhoto is a real nightmare. See numerous threads on problems with Places in iPhoto which I have started. The problem boils down to an incorrect model of places which does not permit them to overlap without risking one overlapping place "gobbling up" all the photos assigned to the other. I'll want to ensure that Photos supports geotagging and that I understand what it does when two user-defined places overlap before I migrate my 400 GB iPhoto library to Photos. That's why I don't want Apple to replace iPhoto by Photos in the App Store before I've had a chance to upgrade Mavericks to Yosemite, then upgrade my version of iPhoto to the latest one that Yosemite supports before evaluating Photos.
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rc.lua:
-- Standard awesome library
require("awful")
require("awful.autofocus")
require("awful.rules")
-- Theme handling library
require("beautiful")
-- Notification library
require("naughty")
--Wiget Library
require("vicious")
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--require("awesompd/awesompd")
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-- Themes define colours, icons, and wallpapers
beautiful.init("/usr/share/awesome/themes/blind-alien/theme.lua")
-- This is used later as the default terminal and editor to run.
terminal = "urxvt"
editor = os.getenv("EDITOR") or "vim"
editor_cmd = terminal .. " -e " .. editor
-- Enable or disable widgets:
-- You also have to edit the wiboxes!
useSysInfo = true
usePacman = true
useMpd = true
useWifi = false
useNet = true
useBat = false
useCpu = true
useMem = true
useTemp = false
-- Widget Settings
cpuCores = 2 --Number of CPU Cores
thermalZone = "coretemp.0" --Thermal Zone to read cpu temperature from (check vicious docu)
thermalData = "core" --Data Source: "proc", "core" or "sys"
netAdapter = "eth0" --Network adapter to monitor
wifiAdapter = "wlan0" --Wifi adapter for wifi widget
pacUpdate = "yaourt -Sy" --Command to update pacman cache
pacUpgrade = "yaourt -Su" --Command to upgrade system
networkManager = terminal .. " -e wicd-curses"
battery = "BAT1" --Battery to monitor
widthMpd = 420 --Width of MPD widget
-- Widget update intervals in seconds
updateCpu = 1
updatePac = 1801
updateMpd = 1
updateWifi = 7
updateNet = 1
updateBat = 31
updateMem = 7
-- For Dual-Screen setups:
-- Set "dualScreen" to "2" if you want a different, optimized widget layout for every screen.
-- If you set it to "-1" it will copy the same widget layout to both screens. (default Awesome behavior)
dualScreen = -1
screencount = screen.count()
-- Default modkey.
-- Usually, Mod4 is the key with a logo between Control and Alt.
-- If you do not like this or do not have such a key,
-- I suggest you to remap Mod4 to another key using xmodmap or other tools.
-- However, you can use another modifier like Mod1, but it may interact with others.
modkey = "Mod4"
-- Table of layouts to cover with awful.layout.inc, order matters.
layouts =
awful.layout.suit.tile,
awful.layout.suit.tile.left,
awful.layout.suit.tile.bottom,
awful.layout.suit.tile.top,
awful.layout.suit.fair,
awful.layout.suit.fair.horizontal,
awful.layout.suit.magnifier,
awful.layout.suit.floating,
awful.layout.suit.max
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tags = {
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--names = { "⌘", "♐", "⌥", "ℵ"},
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names = { "⠐", "⠡", "⠪", "⠵", "⠻", "⠿" },
--names = { " ∙", "⠡", "⠲", "⠵", "⠻", "⠿"},
--names = { " ⠐ ", " ⠡ ", " ⠲ ", " ⠵ ", " ⠾ ", " ⠿ "},
--names = { "⢷", "⣨", "⡪", "⣌", "⣪", "⡝"},
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{ "manual", terminal .. " -e man awesome" },
{ "edit config", editor_cmd .. " " .. awful.util.getdir("config") .. "/rc.lua" },
{ "restart WM", awesome.restart },
{ "logout", awesome.quit },
{ "shutdown" , "sudo /sbin/halt -p" },
{ "reboot" , "sudo /sbin/reboot" }
myinternet = {
{ "Chromium", "chromium" },
{ "Firefox" , "firefox" },
{ "IM" , "pidgin" },
{ "IRC" , "xchat"}
mymedia = {
{ "Spotify", "spotify" },
{ "Rhythmbox", "rhythmbox" },
{ "ncmpcpp", "urxvt -e ncmpcpp" },
{ "Gnome Mplayer", "gnome-mplayer" },
{ "VLC" , "vlc" }
mygraphics = {
{ "GIMP" , "gimp" },
{ "Inkscape" , "inkscape" },
{ "Image viewer" , "eog" }
myoffice = {
{ "Base" , "lobase" },
{ "Calc" , "localc" },
{ "Impress" , "loimpress" },
{ "LibreOffice" , "loffice" },
{ "Writer" , "lowriter" },
{ "Lyx" , "lyx" },
{ "Document viewer" , "evince" }
mysystem = {
{ "htop" , "urxvt -e htop" },
{ "Partition" , "gksudo gparted" },
{ "Sys mon" , "gnome-system-monitor" }
myutilities = {
{ "Gedit" , "gedit" },
{ "Virtualbox" , "VirtualBox" },
{ "File Manager" , "nautilus --no-desktop" }
myplaces = {
{ "Home" , "nautilus --no-desktop /home/johan/" },
{ "Documents" , "nautilus --no-desktop /home/johan/Documents/" },
{ "Downloads" , "nautilus --no-desktop /home/johan/Downloads/" },
{ "Music" , "nautilus --no-desktop /home/johan/Music/" },
{ "Pictures" , "nautilus --no-desktop /home/johan/Pictures/" }
myserverplaces = {
{ "Server root" , "nautilus --no-desktop /srv/" },
{ "Downloads" , "nautilus --no-desktop /srv/download/" },
{ "Movies" , "nautilus --no-desktop /srv/movies/" },
{ "Tv-Series" , "nautilus --no-desktop /srv/tv-series/" },
{ "Misc" , "nautilus --no-desktop /srv/misc/" }
mymainmenu = awful.menu({ items = {
{ "Terminal", terminal },
{ "Places" , myplaces },
{ "Server" , myserverplaces },
{ "Internet" , myinternet },
{ "Media" , mymedia },
{ "Graphics" , mygraphics },
{ "Office" , myoffice },
{ "Utilities" , myutilities },
{ "Systools" , mysystem },
{ "Awesome", myawesomemenu }
mylauncher = awful.widget.launcher({ image = image(beautiful.awesome_icon),
menu = mymainmenu })
-- Separators
bubble = widget({ type = "textbox" })
spacer = widget({ type = "textbox" })
space = widget({ type = "textbox" })
separator = widget({ type = "textbox" })
bracketl = widget({ type = "textbox" })
bracketr = widget({ type = "textbox" })
vertline = widget({ type = "textbox" })
dash = widget({ type = "textbox" })
bubble.text = " ∘ "
spacer.text = " "
space.text = " "
--separator.text = " ⡾ "
separator.text = "] ["
vertline.text = "|"
dash.text = "-"
bracketl.text = "["
bracketr.text = "]"
-- Status Labels
cpuLabel = {}
for s = 1, cpuCores do
cpuLabel[s] = widget({ type = "textbox" })
cpuLabel[s].text = "Core " .. s
end
rlabel = widget({ type = "textbox" })
rlabel.text = "Root:"
hlabel = widget({ type = "textbox" })
hlabel.text = "Home:"
-- WIDGETS --
-- OS info
if useSysInfo == true then
sys = widget({ type = "textbox" })
vicious.register(sys, vicious.widgets.os, "$1 $2")
end
-- Pacman updates
if usePacman == true then
-- Widget
pnoghosticon = widget({ type = "imagebox" })
pnoghosticon.image = image(beautiful.widget_pacnoghost)
pnoghosticon.visible = true
pghosticon = awful.widget.launcher({
image = beautiful.widget_pacghost,
command = terminal .. " -e " .. pacUpgrade .. " && echo -e 'vicious.force({ pacup, })' | awesome-client"
pghosticon.visible = false
-- Icon
-- picon = widget({ type = "imagebox" })
-- picon.image = image(beautiful.widget_pacnew)
-- Use the Pacman icon as launcher to update the package list (change to fit your package-management system)
picon = awful.widget.launcher({
image = beautiful.widget_pacnew,
command = pacUpdate .. " && echo -e 'vicious.force({ pacup, })' | awesome-client"
runpicon = awful.widget.launcher({
image = beautiful.widget_pacman_run,
command = pacUpdate .. " && echo -e 'vicious.force({ pacup, })' | awesome-client"
runpicon.visible = false
pacup = widget({ type = "textbox" })
vicious.register(pacup, vicious.widgets.pkg,
function(widget, args)
local nr = tonumber(args[1])
if nr ~= 0 then
pnoghosticon.visible = false
pghosticon.visible = true
picon.visible = false
runpicon.visible = true
else
pghosticon.visible = false
pnoghosticon.visible = true
runpicon.visible = false
picon.visible = true
end
end, updatePac, "Arch")
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if useMpd == true then
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-- requires modification of /usr/share/awesome/lib/awful/widget/launcher.lua
-- b = util.table.join(w:buttons(), button({}, 1, nil, function () util.spawn(args.command) end))
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music_play = awful.widget.launcher({
image = beautiful.widget_play,
command = "mpc toggle && echo -e 'vicious.force({ mpdwidget, })' | awesome-client"
music_pause = awful.widget.launcher({
image = beautiful.widget_pause,
command = "mpc toggle && echo -e 'vicious.force({ mpdwidget, })' | awesome-client"
music_pause.visible = false
music_stop = awful.widget.launcher({
image = beautiful.widget_stop,
command = "mpc stop && echo -e 'vicious.force({ mpdwidget, })' | awesome-client"
music_prev = awful.widget.launcher({
image = beautiful.widget_prev,
command = "mpc prev && echo -e 'vicious.force({ mpdwidget, })' | awesome-client"
music_next = awful.widget.launcher({
image = beautiful.widget_next,
command = "mpc next && echo -e 'vicious.force({ mpdwidget, })' | awesome-client"
mpdicon = widget({ type = "imagebox" })
mpdicon.image = image(beautiful.widget_mpd)
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mpdwidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
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mpdwidget.width = widthMpd
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local font = beautiful.font
local string = args["{Artist}"] .. " - " .. args["{Title}"]
--local string = "[" .. args["{state}"] .. "]" .. " : " .. args["{Artist}"] .. " - " .. args["{Title}"]
--[[ if maxlength < string.len(string) then
return "" .. string.sub(string, 0, maxlength-6) .. " ..."
else
return "" .. string .. ""
end]]
if args["{state}"] == "Play" then
music_play.visible = false
music_pause.visible = true
else
music_play.visible = true
music_pause.visible = false
end
return string
end, updateMpd)
end
---- WIFI Widget
--if useWifi == true then
-- wifiwidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
-- wifiwidget.width = 22
-- wifiwidget.align = "right"
-- --wifiimage = widget({ type = "imagebox" })
-- wifiimage0 = awful.widget.launcher({
-- image = beautiful.widget_wifi0,
-- command = networkManager
-- wifiimage0.image.visible = true
-- wifiimage1 = awful.widget.launcher({
-- image = beautiful.widget_wifi1,
-- command = networkManager
-- wifiimage1.image.visible = false
-- wifiimage2 = awful.widget.launcher({
-- image = beautiful.widget_wifi2,
-- command = networkManager
-- wifiimage2.image.visible = false
-- wifiimage3 = awful.widget.launcher({
-- image = beautiful.widget_wifi3,
-- command = networkManager
-- wifiimage3.image.visible = false
-- wifiimage4 = awful.widget.launcher({
-- image = beautiful.widget_wifi4,
-- command = networkManager
-- wifiimage4.image.visible = false
-- -- Register Widget
-- -- change to the desired network adapter if needed
-- --vicious.register(wifiwidget, vicious.widgets.wifi, "~ ${link}%", 5, "wlan0")
-- vicious.register(wifiwidget, vicious.widgets.wifi,
-- function(widget, args)
-- if tonumber(args["{link}"]) > 75 then
-- wifiimage0.visible = false
-- wifiimage1.visible = false
-- wifiimage2.visible = false
-- wifiimage3.visible = false
-- wifiimage4.visible = true
-- elseif tonumber(args["{link}"]) > 50 then
-- wifiimage0.visible = false
-- wifiimage1.visible = false
-- wifiimage2.visible = false
-- wifiimage3.visible = true
-- wifiimage4.visible = false
-- elseif tonumber(args["{link}"]) > 25 then
-- wifiimage0.visible = false
-- wifiimage1.visible = false
-- wifiimage2.visible = true
-- wifiimage3.visible = false
-- wifiimage4.visible = false
-- elseif tonumber(args["{link}"]) > 0 then
-- wifiimage0.visible = false
-- wifiimage1.visible = true
-- wifiimage2.visible = false
-- wifiimage3.visible = false
-- wifiimage4.visible = false
-- else
-- wifiimage0.visible = true
-- wifiimage1.visible = false
-- wifiimage2.visible = false
-- wifiimage3.visible = false
-- wifiimage4.visible = false
-- end
-- return string.format("%02d%%", tonumber(args["{link}"]))
-- end, updateWifi, wifiAdapter)
--end
-- NETWORK Widget
if useNet == true then
dnicon = widget({ type = "imagebox" })
upicon = widget({ type = "imagebox" })
dnicon.image = image(beautiful.widget_down)
upicon.image = image(beautiful.widget_up)
-- Initialize widget
netdnwidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
netdnwidget.width = 55
--netdnwidget.align = "right"
netupwidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
netupwidget.width = 55
--netupwidget.align = "right"
-- Register widget
-- change to the desired network adapter if needed
--vicious.register(netdnwidget, vicious.widgets.net, "${eth0 down_kb} kB/s", 1)
--vicious.register(netupwidget, vicious.widgets.net, "${eth0 up_kb} kB/s", 1)
-- The following code formats the output to fill with zeroes at the beginning i.e. 013 kB/s instead of 13 kB/s.
-- It also automatically switches to MB/s if there is more than 999 kB/s
vicious.register(netdnwidget, vicious.widgets.net,
function(widget, args)
if tonumber(args["{" .. netAdapter .. " down_kb}"]) > 999 then
return string.format("%04.1f MB/s", tonumber(args["{" .. netAdapter .. " down_mb}"]))
else
return string.format("%03d kB/s", tonumber(args["{" .. netAdapter .. " down_kb}"]))
end
end, updateNet)
vicious.register(netupwidget, vicious.widgets.net,
function(widget, args)
if tonumber(args["{" .. netAdapter .. " up_kb}"]) > 999 then
return string.format("%04.1f MB/s", tonumber(args["{" .. netAdapter .. " up_mb}"]))
else
return string.format("%03d kB/s", tonumber(args["{" .. netAdapter .. " up_kb}"]))
end
end, updateNet)
end
---- BATTERY widget
--if useBat == true then
-- baticon = widget({ type = "imagebox" })
-- --baticon.image = image(beautiful.widget_batfull)
-- --Initialize widget
-- batwidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
-- batwidget.width = 22
-- batwidget.align = "right"
-- --Register widget
-- --vicious.register(batwidget, vicious.widgets.bat, "$1$2", 31, "BAT1")
-- vicious.register(batwidget, vicious.widgets.bat,
-- function(widget, args)
-- if string.match(args[1], "[+↯]") then
-- baticon.image = image(beautiful.widget_ac)
-- elseif tonumber(args[2]) > 40 then
-- baticon.image = image(beautiful.widget_batfull)
-- elseif tonumber(args[2]) > 20 then
-- baticon.image = image(beautiful.widget_batlow)
-- else
-- baticon.image = image(beautiful.widget_batempty)
-- end
-- if tonumber(args[2]) == 100 then
-- return "Full"
-- end
-- return args[2] .. "%"
-- end, updateBat, battery)
--end
-- {{{ CPU
--if useTemp == true then
-- -- Core Temp
-- tempwidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
-- tempwidget.width = 26
-- tempwidget.align = "right"
-- vicious.register(tempwidget, vicious.widgets.thermal, "$1 C", updateCpu, { thermalZone, thermalData })
-- --vicious.register(tempwidget, vicious.widgets.thermal, "$1°C", 5, { "thermal_zone0", "sys" })
-- -- Icon
-- tempicon = widget({ type = "imagebox" })
-- tempicon.image = image(beautiful.widget_temp)
--end
-- Readout
if useCpu == true then
-- Icon
cpuicon = widget({ type = "imagebox" })
cpuicon.image = image(beautiful.widget_cpu)
-- Core 1 Meter
cpubar = {}
freq = {}
displayCores = {}
displayCpu = {}
for s = 1, cpuCores do
cpubar[s] = awful.widget.progressbar()
cpubar[s]:set_width(50)
cpubar[s]:set_height(6)
cpubar[s]:set_vertical(false)
cpubar[s]:set_background_color("#434343")
--cpubar:set_color(beautiful.fg_normal)
cpubar[s]:set_gradient_colors({ beautiful.fg_normal, beautiful.fg_normal, beautiful.fg_normal, beautiful.bar })
--Delete the following line if you want to put the widget on the left side of the wibox
cpubar[s].layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
vicious.register(cpubar[s], vicious.widgets.cpu, "$" .. s, updateCpu)
awful.widget.layout.margins[cpubar[s].widget] = { top = 6 }
-- Frequency
freq[s] = widget({ type = "textbox" })
freq[s].width = 44
freq[s].align = "right"
--vicious.register(freq1, vicious.widgets.cpufreq, "$2 GHz", 9, "cpu0")
vicious.register(freq[s], vicious.widgets.cpufreq,
function(widget, args)
return string.format("%03.1f GHz", args[2])
end, updateCpu, "cpu" .. s - 1)
-- Cache that shit
vicious.cache(vicious.widgets.cpu)
end
end
-- }}} CPU
-- {{{ MEM
if useMem == true then
-- Icon
memicon = widget({ type = "imagebox" })
memicon.image = image(beautiful.widget_mem)
-- Percentage
--mem = widget({ type = "textbox" })
--vicious.register(mem, vicious.widgets.mem, "$1%")
-- Meter
membar = awful.widget.progressbar()
membar:set_width(50)
membar:set_height(6)
membar:set_vertical(false)
membar:set_background_color("#434343")
--membar:set_color(beautiful.fg_normal )
membar:set_gradient_colors({ beautiful.fg_normal, beautiful.fg_normal, beautiful.fg_normal, beautiful.bar })
--This bar should be placed on the right side of the wibox unless
--it's a dual-screen config in which case the default (leftright)
--layout is used... change that if you need!
if screencount ~= dualScreen then
membar.layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
end
--Register the widget
vicious.register(membar, vicious.widgets.mem, "$1", updateMem)
-- Align progressbars
awful.widget.layout.margins[membar.widget] = { top = 6 }
-- MEM Usage
--mem_total = widget({ type = "textbox" })
--vicious.register(mem_total, vicious.widgets.mem, "$3 MB", 9)
--mem_used = widget({ type = "textbox" })
--vicious.register(mem_total, vicious.widgets.mem, "$2 MB", 9,)
-- Cache that shit
vicious.cache(vicious.widgets.mem)
end
-- }}} MEM
-- Create a textclock widget
mytextclock = awful.widget.textclock({ align = "right" }, "%H:%M")
awful.widget.layout.margins[mytextclock] = { top = -1 }
-- Create a systray
mysystray = widget({ type = "systray"})
-- Create a wibox for each screen and add it
mywibox = {}
mybottomwibox = {}
mypromptbox = {}
mylayoutbox = {}
mytaglist = {}
mytaglist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(awful.button({}, 1, awful.tag.viewonly),
awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.client.movetotag),
awful.button({}, 3, awful.tag.viewtoggle),
awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.client.toggletag),
awful.button({}, 4, awful.tag.viewnext),
awful.button({}, 5, awful.tag.viewprev))
mytasklist = {}
mytasklist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(awful.button({}, 1, function(c)
if not c:isvisible() then
awful.tag.viewonly(c:tags()[1])
end
client.focus = c
c:raise()
end),
awful.button({}, 3, function()
if instance then
instance:hide()
instance = nil
else
instance = awful.menu.clients({ width = 250 })
end
end),
awful.button({}, 4, function()
awful.client.focus.byidx(1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.button({}, 5, function()
awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end))
for s = 1, screencount do
-- Set a screen margin for borders
awful.screen.padding(screen[s], { top = 0 })
-- Create a promptbox for each screen
mypromptbox[s] = awful.widget.prompt()
-- Create an imagebox widget which will contains an icon indicating which layout we're using.
-- We need one layoutbox per screen.
mylayoutbox[s] = awful.widget.layoutbox(s)
mylayoutbox[s]:buttons(awful.util.table.join(awful.button({}, 1, function() awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.button({}, 3, function() awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
awful.button({}, 4, function() awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.button({}, 5, function() awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end)))
mylayoutbox[s].resize = false
-- Create a taglist widget
mytaglist[s] = awful.widget.taglist(s, awful.widget.taglist.label.all, mytaglist.buttons)
awful.widget.layout.margins[mytaglist[s]] = { top = -2 }
-- WARNING: In order to properly view the tasklist some lua files have been modified. For the
-- tasklist_floating_icon icon to be placed on the left side of the task name instead of the
-- right alignment, /usr/share/awesome/lib/awful/widget/tasklist.lua in function new(label, buttons) the
-- variable widgets.textbox has to be modified like this:
-- remove bg_align = "right" and
-- modify the left margin from 2 to icon width + 2 (i.e.: 18).
-- Create a tasklist widget
mytasklist[s] = awful.widget.tasklist(function(c)
return awful.widget.tasklist.label.currenttags(c, s,
-- WARNING: Requires modified /usr/share/awesome/lib/awful/widget/tasklist.lua !!!
-- This basically hides the application icons on the tasklist. If you don't want this or
-- prefer not to change your tasklist.lua remove the following line!
{ hide_icon = true })
end, mytasklist.buttons)
awful.widget.layout.margins[mytasklist[s]] = { top = 2 }
-- WIBOXES --
-- Here we create the wiboxes if it's not a dual-screen layout
if screencount ~= dualScreen then
-- Create the wibox
mywibox[s] = awful.wibox({ position = "top", screen = s, border_width = 0, height = 18 })
-- Add widgets to the wibox - order matters
mywibox[s].widgets = {
mytaglist[s],
mypromptbox[s],
displaySysInfo,
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.leftright
mytextclock,
mylayoutbox[s],
s == 1 and mysystray or nil,
mytasklist[s],
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
mybottomwibox[s] = awful.wibox({ position = "bottom", screen = s, border_width = 0, height = 18 })
mybottomwibox[s].widgets = {
space, music_play, music_pause, music_stop, music_prev, music_next, space, mpdwidget,
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.leftright
spacer,
bracketr,
-- spacer, batwidget, spacer, baticon, spacer,
-- separator,
-- spacer, wifiwidget, spacer, wifiimage0, wifiimage1, wifiimage2, wifiimage3, wifiimage4, spacer,
-- separator,
-- spacer, tempwidget, spacer, tempicon, spacer,
-- separator,
spacer, freq[1], spacer, cpubar[1], spacer,
--cpuLabel[1], spacer,
cpuicon, spacer,
separator,
spacer, membar, spacer, memicon, spacer,
separator,
spacer, netupwidget, spacer, upicon, spacer, separator, spacer, netdnwidget, spacer, dnicon, spacer,
separator,
space, pghosticon, pnoghosticon, runpicon, picon, space,
bracketl,
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
end
end
if screencount == dualScreen then
-- Here we create the wiboxes if it is a dual screen configuration:
mywibox[1] = awful.wibox({ position = "top", screen = 1, border_width = 0, height = 18 })
-- Add widgets to the wibox - order matters
mywibox[1].widgets = {
mytaglist[1],
spacer,
mypromptbox[1],
mytasklist[1],
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.leftright
spacer,
mytextclock,
-- spacer,
mylayoutbox[1],
-- spacer,
-- mytasklist[1],
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
mybottomwibox[1] = awful.wibox({ position = "bottom", screen = 1, border_width = 0, height = 18 })
mybottomwibox[1].widgets = {
space, music_play, music_pause, music_stop, music_prev, music_next, space, mpdwidget,
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.leftright
space,
s == 1 and mysystray or nil,
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
mywibox[2] = awful.wibox({ position = "top", screen = 2, border_width = 0, height = 18 })
mywibox[2].widgets = {
space,
mytaglist[2],
spacer,
mypromptbox[2],
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.leftright
spacer,
mytextclock,
space,
mylayoutbox[2],
spacer,
mytasklist[2],
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
mybottomwibox[2] = awful.wibox({ position = "bottom", screen = 2, border_width = 0, height = 18 })
mybottomwibox[2].widgets = {
spacer,
bracketl,
spacer, sys, spacer,
separator,
space, runpicon, picon, pghosticon, pnoghosticon, space,
separator,
spacer, dnicon, spacer, netdnwidget, spacer, separator, spacer, upicon, spacer, netupwidget, spacer,
separator,
spacer, memicon, spacer, membar, spacer,
bracketr,
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.leftright
spacer,
bracketr,
spacer, tempwidget, spacer, tempicon, spacer,
separator,
spacer, freq[2], spacer, cpubar[2], spacer,
cpuLabel[2], spacer,
cpuicon, spacer,
separator,
spacer, freq[1], spacer, cpubar[1], spacer,
cpuLabel[1], spacer,
cpuicon, spacer,
bracketl,
layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
end
-- {{{ Mouse bindings
root.buttons(awful.util.table.join(awful.button({}, 3, function() mymainmenu:toggle() end),
awful.button({}, 4, awful.tag.viewnext),
awful.button({}, 5, awful.tag.viewprev)))
-- {{{ Key bindings
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(awful.key({ modkey, }, "Left", awful.tag.viewprev),
awful.key({ }, "Print", function () awful.util.spawn("gnome-screenshot") end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Right", awful.tag.viewnext),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Escape", awful.tag.history.restore),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "j",
function()
awful.client.focus.byidx(1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "k",
function()
awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "w", function() mymainmenu:show({ keygrabber = true }) end),
--Volume manipulation
-- awful.key({}, "XF86AudioRaiseVolume", function() awful.util.spawn("amixer set Master 5+") end),
-- awful.key({}, "XF86AudioLowerVolume", function() awful.util.spawn("amixer set Master 5-") end),
-- Layout manipulation
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "j", function() awful.client.swap.byidx(1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "k", function() awful.client.swap.byidx(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "j", function() awful.screen.focus_relative(1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "k", function() awful.screen.focus_relative(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "u", awful.client.urgent.jumpto),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Tab",
function()
awful.client.focus.history.previous()
if client.focus then
client.focus:raise()
end
end),
-- Standard program
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Return", function() awful.util.spawn(terminal) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "r", awesome.restart),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "q", awesome.quit),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "l", function() awful.tag.incmwfact(0.05) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "h", function() awful.tag.incmwfact(-0.05) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "h", function() awful.tag.incnmaster(1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "l", function() awful.tag.incnmaster(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "h", function() awful.tag.incncol(1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "l", function() awful.tag.incncol(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "space", function() awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "space", function() awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
-- Prompt
awful.key({ modkey }, "r", function() mypromptbox[mouse.screen]:run() end),
awful.key({ modkey }, "x",
function()
awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Run Lua code: " },
mypromptbox[mouse.screen].widget,
awful.util.eval, nil,
awful.util.getdir("cache") .. "/history_eval")
end))
clientkeys = awful.util.table.join(awful.key({ modkey, }, "f", function(c) c.fullscreen = not c.fullscreen end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "q", function(c) c:kill() end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "space", awful.client.floating.toggle),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "Return", function(c) c:swap(awful.client.getmaster()) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "o", awful.client.movetoscreen),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "m", function () awful.util.spawn("urxvt -T ncmpcpp -e 'ncmpcpp'") end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "w", function () awful.util.spawn("chromium") end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "b", function () awful.util.spawn("nautilus --no-desktop") end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "r", function(c) c:redraw() end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "t", function(c) c.ontop = not c.ontop end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "n", function(c) c.minimized = not c.minimized end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "m",
function(c)
c.maximized_horizontal = not c.maximized_horizontal
c.maximized_vertical = not c.maximized_vertical
end))
-- Compute the maximum number of digit we need, limited to 9
keynumber = 0
for s = 1, screencount do
keynumber = math.min(9, math.max(#tags[s], keynumber));
end
-- Bind all key numbers to tags.
-- Be careful: we use keycodes to make it works on any keyboard layout.
-- This should map on the top row of your keyboard, usually 1 to 9.
for i = 1, keynumber do
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(globalkeys,
awful.key({ modkey }, "#" .. i + 9,
function()
local screen = mouse.screen
if tags[screen][i] then
awful.tag.viewonly(tags[screen][i])
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function()
local screen = mouse.screen
if tags[screen][i] then
awful.tag.viewtoggle(tags[screen][i])
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function()
if client.focus and tags[client.focus.screen][i] then
awful.client.movetotag(tags[client.focus.screen][i])
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control", "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function()
if client.focus and tags[client.focus.screen][i] then
awful.client.toggletag(tags[client.focus.screen][i])
end
end))
end
clientbuttons = awful.util.table.join(awful.button({}, 1, function(c) client.focus = c; c:raise() end),
awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.mouse.client.move),
awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.mouse.client.resize))
-- Set keys
root.keys(globalkeys)
-- {{{ Rules
awful.rules.rules = {
-- All clients will match this rule.
rule = {},
properties = {
border_width = beautiful.border_width,
border_color = beautiful.border_normal,
size_hints_honor = false,
focus = true,
keys = clientkeys,
buttons = clientbuttons
rule = { class = "MPlayer" },
properties = { floating = true }
rule = { class = "pinentry" },
properties = { floating = true }
rule = { class = "gimp" },
properties = { floating = true }
{ rule = { class = "firefox" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][2] } },
{ rule = { class = "Chromium" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][2] } },
{ rule = { class = "Pidgin" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][3] } },
{ rule = { class = "Xchat" },
properties = {tag = tags[1][4] } },
-- Set Firefox to always map on tags number 2 of screen 1.
-- { rule = { class = "Firefox" },
-- properties = { tag = tags[1][2] } },
-- {{{ Signals
-- Signal function to execute when a new client appears.
client.add_signal("manage", function(c, startup)
-- Add a titlebar
-- awful.titlebar.add(c, { modkey = modkey })
-- Enable sloppy focus
c:add_signal("mouse::enter", function(c)
if awful.layout.get(c.screen) ~= awful.layout.suit.magnifier
and awful.client.focus.filter(c) then
client.focus = c
end
end)
if not startup then
-- Set the windows at the slave,
-- i.e. put it at the end of others instead of setting it master.
-- awful.client.setslave(c)
-- Put windows in a smart way, only if they does not set an initial position.
if not c.size_hints.user_position and not c.size_hints.program_position then
awful.placement.no_overlap(c)
awful.placement.no_offscreen(c)
end
end
end)
client.add_signal("focus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus end)
client.add_signal("unfocus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal end)
-- {{{ Tag signal handler - selection
-- - ASCII tags 1 [2] 3 4...
-- - start with tag 1 named [1] in tag setup
for s = 1, screencount do
for t = 1, #tags[s] do
tags[s][t]:add_signal("property::selected", function ()
if tags[s][t].selected then
tags[s][t].name = "[" .. tags[s][t].name .. "]"
else--]]
--tags[s][t].name = tags[s][t].name:gsub("[%[%]]", "")
--[[ end
end)
end
end
I have tried to search around for a solution to this, but I am coming up short. Any idea on how to solve this?
Last edited by kveras (2011-11-21 09:01:47)

First of all, did you check the wiki and forums? We'll help you, but you have to try to fix it yourself first.
You will need to provide more info if you want help.
Did you set up Gnome to force fallback mode?
Did you look at the Gnome wiki article? There's a few sections that sound like what your looking to do, but the examples are USING OTHER WM's. They still might be able to point you in the right direction.

MDI JTable Overlap Area Repaint Problem

Hi all,
I have a problem for my application in MDI mode.
I open many windows (JInternalFrame contain JTable) under JDesktopPane. Some of the windows are overlapping and when they receive update in the table, it seems repaint all of the overlapping windows, not only itself. This make my application performance become poor, slow respond for drap & drop an existing window or open a new window.
To prove this, i make a simple example for open many simple table and have a thread to update the table's value for every 200 mill second. After i open about 20 windows, the performance become poor again.
If anyone face the same problem with me and any suggestions to solve the problem ?
Please help !!!!!
Following are my sources:
public class TestMDI extends JFrame {
 private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
 private JPanel contentPanel;
 private JDesktopPane desktopPane;
 private JMenuBar menuBar;
 private List<TestPanel> allScreens = new ArrayList<TestPanel>();
 private List<JDialog> freeFloatDialogs = new ArrayList<JDialog>();
 private List<JInternalFrame> mdiInternalFrm = new ArrayList<JInternalFrame>();
 int x = 0;
 int y = 0;
 int index = 0;
 private static int MDI_MODE = 0;
 private static int FREE_FLOAT_MODE = 1;
 private int windowMode = MDI_MODE;
 public TestMDI() {
 init();
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 new TestMDI().show();
 public void init() {
 contentPanel = new JPanel();
 desktopPane = new JDesktopPane();
 desktopPane.setDragMode(JDesktopPane.LIVE_DRAG_MODE);
 desktopPane.setFocusTraversalKeysEnabled(false);
 desktopPane.setFocusTraversalPolicyProvider(false);
 desktopPane.setBorder(null);
 desktopPane.setIgnoreRepaint(true);
 desktopPane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(1000, 800));
 this.setSize(new Dimension(1000, 800));
 menuBar = new JMenuBar();
 JMenu menu1 = new JMenu("Test");
 JMenuItem menuItem1 = new JMenuItem("Open Lable Screen");
 menuItem1.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
 for (int i = 1; i < 4; i++) {
 final TestJLableScreen screen = new TestJLableScreen("Screen " + (allScreens.size() + 1));
 screen.startTime();
 if (windowMode == MDI_MODE) {
 JInternalFrame frame = createInternalFram(screen);
 desktopPane.add(frame);
 mdiInternalFrm.add(frame);
 if (allScreens.size() * 60 + 100 < 1000) {
 x = allScreens.size() * 60;
 y = 60;
 } else {
 x = 60 * index;
 y = 120;
 index++;
 frame.setLocation(x, y);
 frame.setVisible(true);
 } else {
 JDialog dialog = createJDialog(screen);
 freeFloatDialogs.add(dialog);
 if (i * 60 + 100 < 1000) {
 x = i * 60;
 y = 60;
 } else {
 x = 60 * index;
 y = 120;
 index++;
 dialog.setLocation(x, y);
 dialog.setVisible(true);
 allScreens.add(screen);
 JMenuItem menuItem2 = new JMenuItem("Open Table Screen");
 menuItem2.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
 for (int i = 1; i < 4; i++) {
 TestTableScreen screen = new TestTableScreen("Screen " + (allScreens.size() + 1));
 screen.startTime();
 if (windowMode == MDI_MODE) {
 JInternalFrame frame = createInternalFram(screen);
 desktopPane.add(frame);
 mdiInternalFrm.add(frame);
 if (allScreens.size() * 60 + 100 < 1000) {
 x = allScreens.size() * 60;
 y = 60;
 } else {
 x = 60 * index;
 y = 120;
 index++;
 frame.setLocation(x, y);
 frame.setVisible(true);
 } else {
 JDialog dialog = createJDialog(screen);
 freeFloatDialogs.add(dialog);
 if (i * 60 + 100 < 1000) {
 x = i * 60;
 y = 60;
 } else {
 x = 60 * index;
 y = 120;
 index++;
 dialog.setLocation(x, y);
 dialog.setVisible(true);
 allScreens.add(screen);
 menu1.add(menuItem1);
 menu1.add(menuItem2);
 this.setJMenuBar(menuBar);
 this.getJMenuBar().add(menu1);
 this.getJMenuBar().add(createSwitchMenu());
 this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
 this.add(desktopPane);
 desktopPane.setDesktopManager(null);
 public JInternalFrame createInternalFram(final TestPanel panel) {
 final CustomeInternalFrame internalFrame = new CustomeInternalFrame(panel.getTitle(), true, true, true, true) {
 public void doDefaultCloseAction() {
 super.doDefaultCloseAction();
 allScreens.remove(panel);
 internalFrame.setPanel(panel);
 // internalFrame.setOpaque(false);
 internalFrame.setSize(new Dimension(1010, 445));
 internalFrame.add(panel);
 internalFrame.setFocusTraversalKeysEnabled(false);
 internalFrame.setFocusTraversalPolicyProvider(false);
 desktopPane.getDesktopManager();
 // internalFrame.setFocusTraversalKeysEnabled(false);
 internalFrame.setIgnoreRepaint(true);
 return internalFrame;
 public JDialog createJDialog(final TestPanel panel) {
 JDialog dialog = new JDialog(this, panel.getTitle());
 dialog.setSize(new Dimension(1010, 445));
 dialog.add(panel);
 dialog.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
 public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
 allScreens.remove(panel);
 return dialog;
 public JMenu createSwitchMenu() {
 JMenu menu = new JMenu("Test2");
 JMenuItem menuItem1 = new JMenuItem("Switch FreeFloat");
 menuItem1.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
 windowMode = FREE_FLOAT_MODE;
 for (JInternalFrame frm : mdiInternalFrm) {
 frm.setVisible(false);
 frm.dispose();
 frm = null;
 mdiInternalFrm.clear();
 remove(desktopPane);
 desktopPane.removeAll();
// revalidate();
 repaint();
 add(contentPanel);
 index = 0;
 for (JDialog dialog : freeFloatDialogs) {
 dialog.setVisible(false);
 dialog.dispose();
 dialog = null;
 freeFloatDialogs.clear();
 for (int i = 0; i < allScreens.size(); i++) {
 JDialog dialog = createJDialog(allScreens.get(i));
 freeFloatDialogs.add(dialog);
 if (i * 60 + 100 < 1000) {
 x = i * 60;
 y = 60;
 } else {
 x = 60 * index;
 y = 120;
 index++;
 dialog.setLocation(x, y);
 dialog.setVisible(true);
 JMenuItem menuItem2 = new JMenuItem("Switch MDI");
 menuItem2.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
 windowMode = MDI_MODE;
 remove(contentPanel);
 add(desktopPane);
 for (int i = 0; i < freeFloatDialogs.size(); i++) {
 freeFloatDialogs.get(i).setVisible(false);
 freeFloatDialogs.get(i).dispose();
 freeFloatDialogs.clear();
// revalidate();
 repaint();
 for (JInternalFrame frm : mdiInternalFrm) {
 frm.setVisible(false);
 frm.dispose();
 frm = null;
 mdiInternalFrm.clear();
 index = 0;
 for (int i = 0; i < allScreens.size(); i++) {
 JInternalFrame frame = createInternalFram(allScreens.get(i));
 desktopPane.add(frame);
 mdiInternalFrm.add(frame);
 if (i * 60 + 100 < 1000) {
 x = i * 60;
 y = 60;
 } else {
 x = 60 * index;
 y = 120;
 index++;
 frame.setLocation(x, y);
 frame.setVisible(true);
 menu.add(menuItem1);
 menu.add(menuItem2);
 return menu;
public class TestTableScreen extends TestPanel {
 private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
 JTable testTable = new JTable();
 MyTableModel tableModel1 = new MyTableModel(1);
 private boolean notRepaint = false;
 int start = 0;
 JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane();
 private Timer timmer = new Timer(200, new ActionListener() {
 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
 Random indexRandom = new Random();
 final int index = indexRandom.nextInt(50);
 Random valRandom = new Random();
 final int val = valRandom.nextInt(600);
 SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
 public void run() {
 notRepaint = false;
 TestTableScreen.this.update(index + "|" + val);
 public TestTableScreen(String title) {
 this.title = title;
 init();
 tableModel1.setTabelName(title);
 public void startTime() {
 timmer.start();
 public String getTitle() {
 return title;
 public void update(String updateStr) {
 String[] val = updateStr.split("\\|");
 if (val.length == 2) {
 int index = Integer.valueOf(val[0]);
 List vals = tableModel1.getVector();
 if (vals.size() > index) {
 vals.set(index, val[1]);
// tableModel1.fireTableRowsUpdated(index, index);
 } else {
 vals.add(val[1]);
// tableModel1.fireTableRowsUpdated(vals.size() - 1, vals.size() - 1);
 tableModel1.fireTableDataChanged();
 public TableModel getTableModel() {
 return tableModel1;
 public void init() {
 testTable.setAutoResizeMode(JTable.AUTO_RESIZE_OFF);
 testTable.setRowSelectionAllowed(true);
 this.testTable.setModel(tableModel1);
 int[] width = { 160, 80, 45, 98, 60, 88, 87, 88, 80, 70, 88, 80, 75, 87, 87, 41, 88, 82, 75, 68, 69 };
 TableColumnModel columnModel = testTable.getColumnModel();
 for (int i = 0; i < width.length; i++) {
 columnModel.getColumn(i).setPreferredWidth(width[i]);
 testTable.setRowHeight(20);
 tableModel1.fireTableDataChanged();
 this.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
 TableColumnModel columnMode2 = testTable.getColumnModel();
 int[] width2 = { 200 };
 for (int i = 0; i < width2.length; i++) {
 columnMode2.getColumn(i).setPreferredWidth(width2[i]);
 scrollPane.getViewport().add(testTable);
 scrollPane.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
 this.add(scrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
 class MyTableModel extends DefaultTableModel {
 public List list = new ArrayList();
 String titles[] = new String[] { "袨怓1", "袨怓2", "袨怓3", "袨怓4", "袨怓5", "袨怓6", "袨怓7", "袨怓8", "袨怓9", "袨怓10", "袨怓11",
 "袨怓12", "袨怓13", "袨怓14", "袨怓15", "袨怓16", "袨怓17", "袨怓18", "袨怓19", "袨怓20", "袨怓21" };
 String tabelName = "";
 int type_head = 0;
 int type_data = 1;
 int type = 1;
 public MyTableModel(int type) {
 super();
 this.type = type;
 for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
 list.add(i);
 public void setTabelName(String name) {
 this.tabelName = name;
 public int getRowCount() {
 if (list != null) {
 return list.size();
 return 0;
 public List getVector() {
 return list;
 public int getColumnCount() {
 if (type == 0) {
 return 1;
 } else {
 return titles.length;
 public String getColumnName(int c) {
 if (type == 0) {
 return "head";
 } else {
 return titles[c];
 public boolean isCellEditable(int nRow, int nCol) {
 return false;
 public Object getValueAt(int r, int c) {
 if (list.size() == 0) {
 return null;
 switch (c) {
 default:
 if (type == 0) {
 return r + " " + c + " test ";
 } else {
 return list.get(r) + " " + c;
 public boolean isNotRepaint() {
 return notRepaint;
 public void setNotRepaint(boolean notRepaint) {
 this.notRepaint = notRepaint;
public class TestPanel extends JPanel {
 protected String title = "";
 protected boolean needRepaint = false;
 protected boolean isFirstOpen = true;
 public String getTitle() {
 return title;
 public void setNeedRepaint(boolean flag) {
 this.needRepaint = flag;
 public boolean isNeedRepaint() {
 return needRepaint;
 public boolean isFirstOpen() {
 return isFirstOpen;
 public void setFirstOpen(boolean isFirstOpen) {
 this.isFirstOpen = isFirstOpen;
public class TestJLableScreen extends TestPanel {
 private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
 private JLabel[] allLables = new JLabel[20];
 private Timer timmer = new Timer(20, new ActionListener() {
 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
 Random indexRandom = new Random();
 final int index = indexRandom.nextInt(10);
 Random valRandom = new Random();
 final int val = valRandom.nextInt(600);
 SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
 public void run() {
 TestJLableScreen.this.setNeedRepaint(true);
 TestJLableScreen.this.update(index + "|" + val);
 public TestJLableScreen(String title) {
 this.title = title;
 init();
 public void startTime() {
 timmer.start();
 public String getTitle() {
 return title;
 public void update(String updateStr) {
 String[] val = updateStr.split("\\|");
 if (val.length == 2) {
 int index = Integer.valueOf(val[0]);
 allLables[index * 2 + 1].setText(val[1]);
 public void init() {
 this.setLayout(new GridLayout(10, 2));
 boolean flag = true;
 for (int i = 0; i < allLables.length; i++) {
 allLables[i] = new JLabel() {
 // public void setText(String text) {
 // super.setText(text);
 // // System.out.println(" setText " + getTitle() + " ; " + this.getName());
 public void paint(Graphics g) {
 super.paint(g);
 // System.out.println(" paint " + getTitle() + " ; " + this.getName());
 // public void repaint() {
 // super.repaint();
 // System.out.println(" repaint " + getTitle() + " ; " + this.getName());
 allLables[i].setName("" + i);
 if (i % 2 == 0) {
 allLables[i].setText("Name " + i + " : ");
 } else {
 allLables[i].setOpaque(true);
 if (flag) {
 allLables[i].setBackground(Color.YELLOW);
 flag = false;
 } else {
 allLables[i].setBackground(Color.CYAN);
 flag = true;
 allLables[i].setText(i * 8 + "");
 for (int i = 0; i < allLables.length; i++) {
 this.add(allLables[i]);
public class CustomeInternalFrame extends JInternalFrame {
 protected TestPanel panel;
 public CustomeInternalFrame() {
 this("", false, false, false, false);
 public CustomeInternalFrame(String title) {
 this(title, false, false, false, false);
 public CustomeInternalFrame(String title, boolean resizable) {
 this(title, resizable, false, false, false);
 public CustomeInternalFrame(String title, boolean resizable, boolean closable) {
 this(title, resizable, closable, false, false);
 public CustomeInternalFrame(String title, boolean resizable, boolean closable, boolean maximizable) {
 this(title, resizable, closable, maximizable, false);
 public CustomeInternalFrame(String title, boolean resizable, boolean closable, boolean maximizable,
 boolean iconifiable) {
 super(title, resizable, closable, maximizable, iconifiable);
 public TestPanel getPanel() {
 return panel;
 public void setPanel(TestPanel panel) {
 this.panel = panel;

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FACT: You will reduce your risk of lung cancer when you reduce radon levels, even if you've lived with a radon problem for a long time.
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MYTH: Short-term tests can't be used for making a decision about whether to fix your home.
<blockquote>
FACT: A short-term test, followed by a second short-term test* can be used to decide whether to fix your home. However, the closer the average of your two short-term tests is to 4 pCi/L, the less certain you can be about whether your year-round average is above or below that level. Keep in mind that radon levels below 4 pCi/L still pose some risk. Radon levels can be reduced in most homes to 2 pCi/L or below.
 
 
 
<img src="_images/CA-3.jpg" width="520" height="207" />
</blockquote>
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<div id="footer">
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</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
And here is my CSS if needed,
@charset "utf-8";
body {
 font: 100% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 background: #666666;
 margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
 padding: 0;
 text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
 color: #000000;
.twoColFixLtHdr #container {
 width: 950px; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
 border: 1px solid #000000;
 text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
 margin-top: 20px;
 margin-right: auto;
 margin-bottom: 20px;
 margin-left: auto;
 background-color: #557050;
.twoColFixLtHdr #header {
 border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
 height: 250px;
 background-color: #DDDDDD;
 padding-top: 0;
 padding-right: 10px;
 padding-bottom: 0;
 padding-left: 20px;
 background-image: url(../_images/homebanner1.png);
.twoColFixLtHdr #header h1 {
 margin: 0; /* zeroing the margin of the last element in the #header div will avoid margin collapse - an unexplainable space between divs. If the div has a border around it, this is not necessary as that also avoids the margin collapse */
 padding: 20px 0; /* using padding instead of margin will allow you to keep the element away from the edges of the div */
 text-align: center;
 font-size: 48px;
 font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;
 color: #000;
.twoColFixLtHdr #sidebar1 {
 float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
 width: 200px;
 border-right: 1px solid #000000;
 background-color: #557050;
 padding-top: 0px;
 padding-right: 10px;
 padding-bottom: 15px;
 padding-left: 10px;
.twoColFixLtHdr #mainContent {
 margin-top: 0;
 margin-right: 0;
 margin-bottom: 0;
 margin-left: 250px;
 padding-top: 0;
 padding-right: 20px;
 padding-bottom: 0;
 padding-left: 20px;
 text-align: left;
.twoColFixLtHdr #mainContent h1 {
 font-size: 48px;
 font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold";
 font-weight: bold;
.twoColFixLtHdr #mainContent h2 {
 font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold";
 font-size: 32px;
.twoColFixLtHdr #mainContent h3 {
 font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
 font-style: italic;
 color: #CF0;
 font-size: 125%;
.twoColFixLtHdr #mainContent h5 {
 font-size: 120%;
.twoColFixLtHdr #footer {
 padding: 20px 10px 20px 20px;
 border-top: 1px solid #000000;
 background-color: #A3A3A3;
 font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
.twoColFixLtHdr #footer p {
 margin: 0; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
 padding: 10px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
.fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
 float: right;
 margin-left: 8px;
.fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
 float: left;
 margin-right: 8px;
.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
 clear:both;
 height:0;
 font-size: 1px;
 line-height: 0px;
#paragraphFloat {
 width: 350px;
#paragraphFloat2 {
 width: 350px;
Please if anyone knows what I'm doing wrong please please let me know! Since I am learning, I really want to get main concepts like this down so I am not constantly doing things the hard way! Thank you!
Jayson

1) Regarding validation, what does it do?
It validates by telling you where your code isn't er... valid. Sometimes the results are a bit jumbled but if you work through them one at a time and revalidate, it's a good way to learn. If you fix all of the errors shown up through the validator you should end up with standards compliant code. Not necessarily the best, most efficient code you can write but at least it will be valid and it helps you spot errors that hours of code-staring never seems to find.
I don't use the DW validation tool because I find the W3c one easier.
The W3c validator has a check box of HTML Tidy which can tidy up your code but it's not always as easy to see what changes.
2) I know the tag for spacing is wrong, I could just feel it in my bones. I just didn't know what else to do. If I all the way down won't the code be just as cluttered?
You're obviously a born web coder!
 will bloat your page if you use them to position elements.
Here you need to get used to a) the Block Model and b) CSS positioning. Once you crack these, CSS opens up for you and becomes a little more intuitive.
if you have two elements on top of each other rather than push them apart with other elements you do it with padding and/or margin. There are things to watch out for here namely, collapsing margins but if you start to read up on the above, you'll get it.
I just thought of something. If I add a div in main content, align it to the bottom center with CSS, use a line break between it and the text above, and add the image in question in the new div, will the spacing between the text and image work itself out? I just really want to get out of the bad habit.
Keep thinking! Web design is not like desktop publishing or print. Elements on a HTML page don't behave like paragraphs on a page. Once you begin to figure out why not it all gets a little easier.
If you want an image at the bottom an element you put that at the end of the content in that element. Then you need to ensure there is no margin, padding or border between the img element and the next element (your footer). HTML elements come with some styling that is applied by default in the browser. Many web developers include a rule like this:
body {
margin: 0;
padding:0;
This sets the margin and padding to zero of course and it's purpose is to override the defaults. Some people advocate applying similar rules to all elements and if your interested try googling Eric Meyer who has written about it online.
One of the key purposes of CSS is to take styling out of the page. It's leaner, more efficient for the viewer and the coder and helps with site management.
3) AP divs are weird, and I did only use as a last resort.
See? You're a natural!
The reason is I am confused by the float and clear float classes. My left column is floated left and that element is what I was having problems understanding. I tried to make new divs and float right but I screwed it all up. I am sure I am just not applying the clear float in the right places.
Getting the hang of floating is key to CSS positioning. You use a float if you want two elements to sit side by side on the page. It disrupts the "document flow." Ordinarily HTML elements are rendered one after the other, on top of each other. Floating an element takes it out of the document flow and allows other elements to occupy its space. When you float an element it should always have a width. If the element below it also has a width, that width has to be sufficiently narrow to allow it to occupy the space. In short, floated elements can't be wider than their containing element.
The clear property is used after a float to stop an element occupying the space left by a floated element. It works but confuses the heck out of me!
So that leads me to my final point. I am a novice too! I might have fluffed a few of the technical points above but it's pretty much there.
Regards
Martin

Mapviewer legend and note overlap

I am using Mapviewer 11ea and wish to place a legend above a note in the SOUTH EAST corner of my map. The note is defined in the config file and the legend is provided in the map request. The legend itself seems to create a box larger than required and overlaps the note text below. See the image at http://www.geocities.com/ozspatial/legend-note-overlap.jpg showing the overlap and the large amount of white space at the bottom of the legend.
The legend component of the request is from the default mapviewer request and looks like:
<legend bgstyle="fill:#ffffff;stroke:#ff0000" profile="MEDIUM" position="SOUTH_EAST">
 <column>
 <entry text="Map Legend" is_title="true" />
 <entry style="M.STAR" text="center point" />
 <entry style="M.CITY HALL 3" text="cities" />
 <entry style="M.CITY HALL 4" text="big cities" />
 <entry is_separator="true" />
 <entry style="C.ROSY BROWN STROKE" text="state boundary" />
 <entry style="L.PH" text="interstate highway" />
 <entry text="County population:" />
 <entry style="V.COUNTY_POP_DENSITY" tab="1" />
 </column>
</legend>Does anyone know how to reduce the white space in the legend or some other way to avoid the overlap? (whilst still placing both note and legend in the SOUTH EAST corner)
thanks,
Ross.

Hi Ross,
I don't think you will be able to reduce the white space at the bottom, but there are some parameters on the legend that you can use.
1) In overlap situations you can set the transparency of the legend:
<legend bgstyle="fill:#ffffff;fill-opacity:128;stroke:#ff0000" profile="MEDIUM" position="SOUTH_EAST">
2) For the profile value there is an internal size defined. In your figure I can note that the advanced style items are also overlapping, which means that the internal size MEDIUM seems not appropriate for this legend. You can assign a height for a legend entry:
<entry style="V.CA INCOME 2" tab="1" height="150"/>
3) With version 11 there are two new parameters (location_x and location_y) for the legend that can be used to put the legend in any position. In this case the position attribute is ignored if defined.
<legend bgstyle="fill:#ffffff;fill-opacity:128;stroke:#ff0000" profile="MEDIUM" location_x="20" location_y="50">
Joao

Error:Could not load type from assembly Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' because it contains an object field at offset 75 that is incorrectly aligned or overlapped by a non-object field.

I got an error while I creating a structure.
[FieldOffset(72)]
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray,SizeConst= 3)]
public int[] DC;
[FieldOffset(75)]
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 8)]
public float[] WIN;
[FieldOffset(83)]
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 20)]
public byte[] name;
[FieldOffset(103)]
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 3)]
public byte[] SET;
[FieldOffset(106)]
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 50)]
public byte[] ID;
Error as like this-->object field at offset 75 that is incorrectly aligned or overlapped by a non-object field. But here size constant is 3 so I think after 72 offset will be 75..If I change the offset to 76 it will works fine. I think reason is that
size of int is 4. After changing that code will be like this.
[FieldOffset(72)]
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray,SizeConst= 3)]
public int[] DC;
[FieldOffset(76)]
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 8)]
public float[] WIN;
[FieldOffset(84)]
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 20)]
public byte[] name;
[FieldOffset(104)]
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 3)]
public byte[] SET;
[FieldOffset(107)]
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 50)]
public byte[] ID;
But at that time I got the error as object field at offset 107 that is incorrectly aligned or overlapped by a non-object field..Can anyone tell me what is the main reason behind this..
Thanks..

Hi,
Please firstly take a look at this documentation:
MarshalAsAttribute.SizeConst Field
Indicates the number of elements in the fixed-length array or the number of characters (not bytes) in a string to import
Change your code like this should work:
[FieldOffset(72)]
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray,SizeConst= 3)]
public int[] DC;
[FieldOffset(84)]//72+4*3
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 8)]
public float[] WIN;
[FieldOffset(116)]//84+4*8
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 20)]
public byte[] name;
[FieldOffset(136)]
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 3)]
public byte[] SET;
[FieldOffset(139)]
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValArray, SizeConst = 50)]
public byte[] ID;
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