Possible in a decode

So I am trying to use a decode statement with my query to do the following:
If col_A is eqaul to the values 12, 13, and 117 output then output 'TEST' for column_B, else output 'Prod' when col_A is equal to 5 and 'Reg' when col_A is equal to 6 as data_state
So my main question is can i do something like this...
DECODE(col_A, (12, 13, 117),'TEST', DECODE(col_B, 5, 'Prod', 6, 'Reg')) as data_state,So...
if col_A is equal to 12, 13, or 117 i want data_state to output 'TEST'
DATA_STATE
TEST
or if col_B is equal to 5, i want data_state to say
DATA_STATE
Prod
or if col_B is equal to 6, i want data_state to say
DATA_STATE
RegI am mainlly having an issue with the aspect of outputing TEST for values 12, 13, and 117. I realize (12, 13, 117) is clearly invalid in my code above. I am just trying to give an idea of how i am coding, basically the (12, 13, 117) is the concept of, if col_A in 12, 13, or 117...not sure if this can be done in a decode.
Using Oracle: 10g

Hi,
You can use case instead. Something like
(case when col_A in (12, 13, 117) then 'TEST'
       when col_B = 5 then 'Prod'
       when col_B= 6 then 'Reg'
       end ) as data_state -Arun

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Hello,
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I selected firePartialAction as ActionType in Country poplist. Then I called a function to VOImpl of StatesVO and set the where clause there.
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That kewl, but for u knowledge u can add anything in ur where clause of query through ur code in Voimpl class. It is even possible to do change entire query, see Voimpl class methods in javadoc.
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bucket2_class,
3,
bucket3_class,
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bucket5_class,
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bucket6_class,
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v_start_punch,
'N',
'N',
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v_actual_hrs,
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v_actual_hrs,
v_start_punch,
v_shift,
v_on_clock,
'N');

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I've uploaded them here: http://www.mediafire.com/?d5e761frl5px4
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Put all three files into the folder "c:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS5.5\Common\Configuration\Players"
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X-Fi Xtrememusic and all X-Fi products

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Email :
I understand from your email that you like to know if there is specific driver for X-Fi Xtreme Music sound card. I am sorry for any inconvenience this is causing you. Please let me assist you. For your information there is a built-in decoder on the X-Fi Xtreme Music sound card. Therefore the signal from a game console such as an Xbox can be decoded & output to analog speakers. There is no need for an I/O Dri've. You may use a digital Toslink cable to 3.5 mm plug.
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With regard to your email, please be informed that the X-FI Extreme Music sound card is able to decode the 5. DD signal via optical connection to analog speakers. Instead of purchasing the I/O Console, you can get a Tosslink to Minijack adaptor for the connection from the Xbox to Xfi Extreme Music sound card. Please be informed that the decoding will only work on Win XP and not on a Windows Vista PC. In case if you need any clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Email 3:
Prior to getting to the email form on our website, you were asked to try some basic troubleshooting for the issue that you identified. The steps that you were walked through resolve some issues with your product. Some of the information that I provide in this message may be repetiti've but it is still valuable information for troubleshooting your device. Yes it can since the X-Fi XtremeMusic has a built-in decoder.
Email 4:
With regard to your email, i believe that you are enquiring on a sound card which is suitable for Xbox connection so that it can output 5. sound via the analog speakers connected to the sound card. To do that, you would need to purchase a XFi Extreme Music sound card and an Xfi I/O Console.
So this concludes my message. I do not know who is right. I deliberately wrote the names of the authors of the emails above so that other Creative techs can clarify with them. The emails have stated that I can connect use the digital connection from my 360 to the flexijack of the x-fi XtremeMusic and get 5. DD sound but others have stated that I cant since the decoder is in the software. Can someone from CL tech explain to me this discrepancy? Thanks, I appreciate it alot.
Message Edited by turok_t on 0-0-2009 0:58 AMMessage Edited by turok_t on 0-0-2009 02:00 AMMessage Edited by turok_t on 0-0-2009 02:05 AMAdmin Notes: Thanks for letting us know, please understand that I have to remove the name of the Customer Support Advisors for their privacy.
Message Edited by KokChoy-CL on 0-2-2009 02:02 [email protected]

turok_t wrote:
...the sound card itself can not decode the signal so its useless.
I wouldn't say that. The card doesn't need to. It's nicer if it appears to do so than if application programs have to be relied on.
Yes, I have heard that previous?sound cards (not just Creative) had built in decoders to the hardware. This was for 2 reasons. ) Privacy and copyright reasons from Dolby Digital themselves. 2) Codecs change very quickly which means that the hardware will be obsolete once a new codec is released. Thus, it is more efficient to embedd the codecs in software itself. This is based on one of the correspondences with a CL tech staff member.
There may have been soundcards that included hardware decoding, but I've only heard of one, which was an early USB-interfaced one by CL which was almost stand-alone in character. I have a vague memory of some card with a DSP chip being programmed for it, but I also have this sense this was vaporware or a baseless claim.
Almost all soundcards punt and say they support decoding but really just include a copy of PowerDVD or similar that actually does it (which CL has started doing recently, unfortunately), but CL has pretty much been unique in including a driver-based decoder which makes the card look like it does do decoding. As far as I can tell, the Xtrememusic is one of those. ? In most cases these support digital-in decoding from an external digital input, but you usually needed the I/O dri've to have the digital input it supported that for. As I said, the formal manual shows explictly how to make an optical connection from a DVD player to the I/O Dri've or I/O console expressly so the card's decoding can be used to hear DD/DTS on the computer's analog speakers.
As far as your comment about hardware becoming obsolete, why haven't I heard about this being a problem for DD/DTS receivers. That's hardware,
isn't it's
Yes, you will need to specify the source if multiple sources are connected to the sound card.
Only if more than one is supported and it is not the default. It is entirely possible that if there is more than one external digital input, only one of them is actually supported as a decoding input.
Well, I think its kinda dumb to put a flexijack that is nonfunctional for digital I/O unless you buy the I/O console or dri've separately. Many consumers, including me, thought that external devices can be directly connected to the flexijack since it is Digital I/O. IMO, this is a bit misleading.
There is only so much real estate on the card's slot cover, and you can't help that some people are apt to jump to unwarranted conclusions. In fact, you can connect external devices to the flexijack directly, in the output direction such as connecting the card to a receiver's coaxial digital input, but you need the Digital I/O Module to do that optically, or to do either form of digital input. You can do so without the I/O console or dri've in addition. The question is not that the flexijack cannot be used for digital input, it's whether the card's decoding feature supports decoding from it, or only from the digital inputs on the dri've/console. It might, but to say it does or doesn't would be an unwarranted conclusion, since I don't have confirmation either way. I also don't know the effect of Vista, if you're using it, but I know that once again drivers had to be rewritten for it, and when that happens, esoteric features may get broken or not work for awhile. (Microsoft seems to be quite incapable of architecting a stable driver environment.)? Plus, drivers rewritten for Vista might force CL to renegotiate the Dolby licensing, which even might be the reason CL has stopped supplying driver-based decoding in some cases.
To me, it doesnt really matter how many external digital inputs are connected or whether you can switch between digital inputs?from multiple input sources. The fact remains that the Xtrememusic currently can not decode 5. DD li've regardless if you have an adaptor (optical>3/5mm), I/O module, I/O console. In other words,?you can find many ways to connect external devices to the sound card, but the sound card cant INTERPRET and DECODE those digital inputs.
It can.
-Dave
[email protected]

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Java Callout to decodeBase64
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Replace [ node contents ] of [ undefined XPath ]
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Is it possible to encode/decode a key in Bytes using Base64 functions. Can u please suggest me the syntax for it.

Is it possible to encode/decode a key in Bytes using
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CS6 Error with JSON

Updated one of my projects to CS6 and now get error...
Line 188 1061: Call to a possibly undefined method decode through a reference with static type Class.
CODE:
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kglad,
I totally missed your first line of code refering to parse/stringify. I've sense revised my coding to use these two functions. Works just as well without including the long class naming in front of JSON.
NOTE: Coding is in reference to SCORM
REVISED CODE:
OBJECT
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Blink custom cursor

Hi to all.
I'm having problems changing the look of the cursor of my app. Sometimes, when the user let the mouse pointer on certain areas of the principal panel, the cursor look must change for a custom look that I have created. The problem is that when I change the aspect of the system cursor, for my custom cursor, it start to blink sometimes, and it stays blinking when I move it on areas where the cursor have to have this custom look. I'm using a code like this.
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I think the problem may be the fact that you are changing the cursor in paintComponent() regardless of what the cursor currently is; I would change the code to check if the cursor is already the cursor you want it to be; if so then skip the setCursor().
You are fetching the image every time a paintComponent() call is made. That is not very efficient. I would fetch the image once (in the constructor perhaps?), store the cursor in a member variable and just use it whenever you need it. The rule is that a paint() or paintComponent() call should take as little time as possible, loading and decoding an image from disk is not exactly a fast action.
Also, you are aware that you can do "else if" in stead of nesting the if statements like that?

OS 9 doesn't recognize .bin file

Hello All:
I downloaded iTunes for my friend as described in this article:
Hi -
You can download iTunes 2.0.4 from this Apple KBase article -
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120073
but my friend's Mac won't recognize the .bin file. How do I get it to recognize this file type, or is this really another problem?
Thanks!
Bob

Hello Don,
The only sensible solution in this case, as you have already pointed out, would be to obtain an appropriate Mac OS 9 install CD; both for StuffIt Expander and in order to have a bootable disc at hand.
If an install CD is not yet available, and Bob would like to try other ways to get StuffIt Expander in the meantime, here are some additional comments:
There is a Stuffit archive format, .sea, which can be decompressed without using Stuffit Expander. ".sea" stands for "Self-Extracting Archive" - the archive itself contains sufficient program code that it will run and decompress itself when double-clicked. I suspect that the reason that format is not used for downloads is that it acts like a program (if you do a Get Info on one it will be reported as being an application program) - and so probably has vulnerable codes.
Yes, that is the way I see it, too. Since a PC, normally, cannot handle the resource fork of the file, the "clickability" of the .sea would get lost without a protective outer "shell" of MacBinary (.bin) or BinHex (.hqx) encoding. You would not be able to launch the built-in unpacking program of an unprotected .sea file, but it should be OK to regain the data portion by dragging the file onto a StuffIt Expander program icon (or by opening it from within StuffIt Expander). Not very useful for downloading StuffIt Expander itself, that is, if one does not have StuffIt Expander.
For older Macs, with a built in floppy drive, I usually recommend getting a ready-to-use version of StuffIt Expander for Macintosh via a PC . This is how it works: Begin by downloading the MACDISK.EXE file here onto the PC. Prepare an empty 1.44 MB PC-formatted diskette through the FORMAT A: command in DOS or the "full" formatting option under Windows. Launch the MACDISK.EXE program on the PC. Follow the instructions on screen. The result will be a Mac-formatted floppy, complete with a StuffIt Expander 4.0.1 installer. Once installed, in a suitable environment, the 4.0.1 version can be used to decode many files. If a newer StuffIt Expander version (e.g. 5.5) is needed to handle certain decompressions, a download from ftp://ftp.allume.com/pub/archive/mac/StuffIt_Expander should now not be too difficult.
With a more modern Mac, without a built-in floppy drive, the situation gets more complicated. Even with access to an external USB floppy drive, one can not assume that the 4.0.1 installer will run on the new machine (and if it does, the 4.0.1 program may not).
There are PC utilities for Mac disks (an old freeware application called HFVExplorer could once be found via a Google search) which can internally process MacBinary and/or BinHex files while placing the decoded result on a plain Mac-formatted 1.44 MB floppy. This means that one can download a .bin or .hqx StuffIt Expander program file as it is (for instance, directly from the aforementioned ftp site) onto a PC (without attempting to decode or decompress in a PC file system surrounding), and then decode it while in transit to the Mac floppy. With a USB floppy drive at the Mac end, this will improve the chances to get a properly working version of StuffIt Expander.
Some web browsers and certain email programs may be capable of directly decoding at least BinHex files. This would per se make it possible to download .hqx files from the above site, or having .hqx files sent by a friend. However, without a functioning Internet connection that would not be of any use in this very case.
Another possibility might include decoding encoded files sent by a terminal emulation application over the telephone lines, provided that a program of a corresponding type is installed at the receiving end.
Regards,
Jan

Importing DVD to FCP questions

I did a search on importing DVD content into FCP. I have read a lot of the articles but I still have questions.
I have about 8 DVD's that I have to pull clips from. There are about 18 clips. I know it is possible to just decode those clips. I am going to be editing this in FCP so here are my questions.
Which software is easier as far as setting in and out marks for the decoding of the DVD (mpegstreamclip or Handbrake)? I know I have to Encode the DVD to MPEG-4. Is this the default in mpegstreamclip or Handbreak? I also read that you have to demux the file before you import it into FCP. Is this an option in mpegstreamclip or handbreak?
One last thing, I know that a DVD is MPEG2 and I have to convert it to MPEG 4 but is it better to transfer the DVD to DVCAM and then capture the tape or use the software to rip the files. As far as quality, I would assume it is the same thing but I would like to hear it from the Gurus.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
thanks
Dual G5 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Given the fact that both are free or very inexpensive downloads, give them both a try.
MPEG Streamclip extracts are variety of QT formats. And you do not have to encode the DVD to Mpeg4, instead mpeg2.
Not certain why you are calling something a fault of the program.
You might want to explain, and remember these programs do not work with encrypted DVDs.
best wishes
David
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