Two basic, related questions about external HDs and trashing/erasing

I have a couple of questions about using an external hard drive that I can't seem to get answered by surfing around. They'll probably seem stupid and basic, but ... Here they are:
1. When you drag a file from your external hard drive to the trash, does that file actually transfer to the main hard drive's trash, and thus the main hard drive? For instance, say I'm deleting a 4 GIG file. Will I temporarily add 4 GIGs to my main drive in the process of deleting it?
2. With a multipartitioned ext. drive, can you erase the contents of a single partition with the disk utility, thus bypassing having to drag-trash everything on that partition?
Thanks.
G5 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.2) Powerbook (10.4.6)

1. No. The files are moved to an invisible .Trash directory on the external volume. No copying of data takes place between volumes when you move stuff to the trash.
2. Yes. You can use Disk Utility to erase or securely erase just a single Volume on a disk, leaving the other volumes unaffected. Simply click on the name of the Volume in the left pane of Disk Utilitly, click on the Erase tab in the right pane, and choose the options you want for erasing the volume.

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A question about movie clips and the eraser

So I'm kinda new to flash and whatnot, probably not nearly as
good as half you people with the scripting and I donno what half of
things you say are.. and yeah.. but I'll learn one day. :]
Anyways.. so I want to use the eraser tool to erase a
graphic, but it doesn't seem to be able to do that. Basically I
have this picture of an eraser and when I l click the link I want
the eraser to erase the page, but the thing that actually could
erase doesn't seem to erase things unless they're made in flash.
Suggestions???
Also, how do you make a movie clip stop moving when you hover
over it?

Ok - let's go step by step:
Re-re wrote:
> In flash CS3 there's an eraser tool that lets you erase
things, but doesn't let
> you erase graphics from what I can see.
"Graphics" is a pretty general term - it can mean anything
from vectors to bitmaps to symbol
instances. I have to assume that you are referring to
imported graphics. Please clarify.
If you are finding the eraser tool does not erase "graphics"
then you are either trying to erase a
bitmap or an instance.
If bitmap: you must break it apart or Trace Bitmap (convert
to vectors) before using the eraser
tool. More importantly, if you are trying to erase part of a
bitmap, it is probably more
advantageous to go back to the original source file and edit
it in your graphics editor and
re-import into flash.
If it is an instance of a Graphic symbol, double click the
symbol to enter Edit Mode - then use the
eraser tool (assuming the artwork inside this symbol is
vector art. If a bitmap refer to the
previous steps.
>
> But I have this button that looks like an eraser, and
when it's clicked I want
> the eraser to swipe across the page and erase it,
leaving it white from behind,
> but sence the ereaser tool in flash doesn't seem to let
me erase graphics, I
> was trying to figure out how to exicute my idea.
Here's where my confusion increases - this is a different
issue from the first one right? The eraser
tool and this eraser button are 2 different things? Let's
assume this eraser button is something you
made ok? But your last scentence still confuses me - what
does the Flash eraser tool have to do with
your eraser button?
What I think you want might be found by going to
www.flashkit.com and searching for "scratch lottery
ticket" or similar.
>
> Also, I have a movie clip with a botton on it, and the
movie clip rotates
> consantly. I want it to stop rotating when I hover over
the botton. How do I do
> that?
Give the MC an instance name and target it on rollOver of the
button:
on (rollOver) {
myMC.stop();
Chris Georgenes
Adobe Community Expert
www.mudbubble.com
www.keyframer.com
www.howtocheatinflash.com

Question About Color's and Gradients

Hi all,
I have a question about color swatches and gradients.
I am curious to know, if I have 2 color swatches that I make into a gradient color, is it posible to change the tint of each indivdual color in that gradient and have that applied to the gradient without having to adjust the gradients opacity.
The reason that I'm asking this is because in creating a project I found that the colors that I chose for to make my gradient from my swatches were to dark, and while I can adjust each one's tint to my liking (if the object they were applied to was going to be a solid color) but that doesn't seem to apply to the overall gradient.
I hope that makes sense, I know that this was something that was able to be accomplished in quark and was wondering if I can do something similar.

If you double click your gradient swatch (after adding it to the swatches)
Then click a colour stop in the gradient, and then change the drop down menu to CMYK (or rgb)
And you can alter the percentages there. It's not much use for spot colours but it's a start.
But making tint swatches would be a good start anyway.
At least then when you double click the gradient (in the swatches) to edit it you can choose from CMYK, RGB, LAB, or Swatches and adjust each colour stop to your liking.

Question about clear page and reset pagination

Hi,
I have a question about clear pages and the reset pagination in an URL. What is the reason why a clear page doesn't also trigger a reset pagination on the pages which are cleared?
I can't really imagine a business case where it makes sense to clear all data of page items on a page and don't reset the pagination of reports on that page which probably use a page item in there where clause...
The drawback of this behavior is that a developer always has to set the reset pagination checkbox when he clears the target page and the even bigger drawback is that if you specify other pages to clear, you can't reset pagination for them, because reset pagination only works for the target page.
Thanks for your input.
Patrick
*** New *** Oracle APEX Essentials *** http://essentials.oracleapex.info/
My Blog, APEX Builder Plugin, ApexLib Framework: http://www.oracleapex.info/

Enhancement request filed, thanks,
Scott

The question about portlet customization and synchronization

I have a question about portlet customization and synchronization.
When I call
NameValuePersonalizationObject data = (NameValuePersonalizationObject) PortletRendererUtil.getEditData(portletRenderRequest);
portletRenderRequest.setPortletTitle(str);
portletRenderRequest.putString(aKey, aValue);
PortletRendererUtil.submitEditData(portletRenderRequest, data);
Should I make any synchronization myself (use "synchronized" blocks or something else) or this procedure is made thread-safe on the level of the Portal API?

HI Dimitry,
I dont think you have to synchronize the block. i guess the code is synchronized internally.
regards,
Harsha

A question about item "type and release" of source system creation

Hello expert,
I have a question about item "type and release" of source system creation.
As we know,when we create a web servie source system,there will display a pop-up which includes three items as "logical system","source system"and "type and release".
About the item "type and release",when we push "F4" button,there will be three default selections as below:
"ORA 115     Oracle Applications 11i
TLF 205     Tealeaf 2.05B
XPD 020     SAP xPD".
Who can tell me when and how should I use the three selections.
And also I attempted to input the item by some optional letters except the default three selections and it seems that I can input it freely.
Thank you and Best Regards,
Maggie

Hello DMK,
Thank you very much for your answer.It is very helpful for me.
Can I ask you further about it?
I got that it is a semantic description item.
You said the default selections are set by our basis people.Would you like to tell me how should we creat a new value except the default ones for item "type and release"?Only by inputing the value in the item directly?But you see we canot see the new value item we created by ourself when we push "F4" button next time ,is that ok?Or do we have to ask basis people to define one new value item just like the default seletions before we use it.
Also if possible would you like to describe detail about "This becomes important when you are troubleshooting certain issues especially when RFC connection problems."
Thank you and Best Regards,
Maggie
Message was edited by: Maggie

I am a first time user of I phone. Today when I downloaded two basic free apps that is Facebook and what's app , I was charged one dollar each time . Why is that .

I am a first time user of I phone. Today when I downloaded two basic free apps that is Facebook and what's app , I was charged one dollar each time . Why is that .

You weren't charged.
Read: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3702 for an explanation.

A few questions about the ka790gx and dka790gx

i have a few questions about the ka790gx and dka790gx , how much better is the dka790gx compaired to the ka790gx ? . how much difference does the ACC function make to overclocking etc , i plan on getting a phenom II 940BE or 720BE . i already have the ka790gx so would it be worth building another system using the dka790gx mobo , or should i keep what i already have and just change the cpu ?

It's largely irrelevant what other boards had VRM issues other than the KA790GX - the fact is it died at stock settings. Since there is little cost difference between the more robust DKA790GX (or Platinum if you really need 1394) why bother with the proven weakling? There are other examples around of the KA not having a robust power section. There's no way I would use even a 95W TDP CPU in the KA and absolutely not O/C.....!
As for the credentials of Custom PC, I have generally found their reviews accurate and balanced, and echo my own findings where applicable. If a little too infrequent.
The fact that the KA has such a huge VRM heatsink leads me to my other comments on the Forum, particularly regarding the "fudge" aspect:
"""Henry is spot on - the notion that adding a heatsink to the top of the D2PAK or whatever MOSFETS is effective is virtually worthless. The device's die thermal junction is the tab on the device back - which is always against the PCB pad. The majority of heat is therefore dissipated in to the board, and the fact that the epoxy plastic encapsulation gets hot is simply due to the inability of the heat to be conducted away from the device die via the tab. Not sure when Epoxy become an effective conductor of heat.... Good practice is to increase the size of the PCB pad (or "land" in American) such that the enlarged PCB copper area acts as an adequate heatsink. This is still not as effective as clamping a power device tab to an actual piece of ali or copper, but since the devices used are SMD devices, this is not possible. However, the surface area required to provide sufficient PCB copper area to act as a heatsink for several devices isn't available in the current motherboard layouts. Where industrial SBC designs differ in this respect is to place the VRM MOSFETs on the back of the PCB on very enlarged PCB pads - where real estate for components is not an issue.
Gigabyte's UD3 2oz copper mainboards sound like a good idea, on the face of it. However, without knowing how they have connected the device tabs to where and what remains a mystery. I suspect it is more hype than solution, although there will be some positive effect. From an electrical perspective, having lower resistance connecting whatever to whatever (probably just a 0V plane) is no bad thing.
The way the likes of ASUS sort of get round the problem is to increase the sheer number of MOSFET devices and effectively spread the heat dissipation over a larger physical area. This works to a degree, there is the same amount of heat being dissipated, but over several more square inches. The other advantage of this is that each leg of the VRM circuit passes less current and therefore localised heat is reduced. Remember that as well as absolute peak operating temperature causing reduced component life, thermal cycling stresses the mechanical aspects of components (die wire bonds for example) as well as the solder joints on the board. Keeping components at a relatively constant temperature, even if this is high (but within operating temperature limits), is a means of promoting longevity.
For myself, the first thing I do with a seperate VRM heatsink is take it off and use a quiet fan to blow air on to the VRM area of the PCB - this is where the heat is. This has the added benefit of actively cooling the inductors and capacitors too....
Cooling the epoxy component body is a fudge. If the epoxy (and thus any heatsink plonked on top of it) is running at 60C, the component die is way above that.....
It's better than nothing, but only just."""

Some basic questions about foriegn key , and relationships.

Hi
Thank you for reading my post
I read some documents about foreugn key and tables relation ships.
but i still can not understnad some stuff.
1-when we have a foreign key , we have two tables that we want to relate them together
in a way that one of ? table columns forced to be a value from ?? table column.
what is name of those two tables , i saw , child-parent , ..... which confuse me.
can some one please tell me correct name of those two tables ?
2-some times we need some kind of master details relation like :
one-to-many : i this case MANY table will have a column to point a record in ONE table , can this relation be a foreign key relation ?
3-we can achieve many-to-many relation only by using a helper table to host both tables primary keys in a record to relate them together.
can you point me to some resources that help me to find answers to this questions ?
or explain them to me ?
thank you for your time.

These are critical database basics that you need to understand. I would seriously recommend getting some study in, because proper relational database design relies on the basic principle of data and relationships and a process called normalization.
In reality, you only really need one gigantic table to host data. It would include everything you would want to know about something - let's take a sales order for example. You would have to record the customer's name, address, etc. along with every item they ordered, etc. You would have a HUGE table full of data that appeared over and over and over again. This is bad design for two basic reasons: it is difficult to query, and it is very easy to have minor mistakes like capitalization or alternate spellings that prevent things from matching up properly. For example, let's say Bob orders 40 widgets and 40 digits. In our hypothetical table, we could put it in as Bob - 40 widgets and Robert - 40 digits. See how confusing this can get even in a simple example? And let's say you wanted to correct all of Robert's orders to say Bob and you found out there were 40 orders from "Robert" How would you know which ones to change?
The process of normalization helps to reduce the chance for these types of errors in addition to creating a good basis for indexes. You normalize the data by creating sets of parent/child tables with a "key" value to match them. In our hypothetical situation, you could create a table for orders and a table for customers. In the customers table you give all the detail for the customer in one place, and you assign each customer a unique number or ID. In the orders table we add the customer ID (NOT the name) and we ensure that we are getting the customer we want, in addition to saving a lot of space and eliminating redundancy. In our example, the customers table is the "parent" table and the orders table is the "child" table. The child table references the unique entries in the parent table via that id. That reference is referred to as a foreign key. The foreign key in the child table points back to the original and complete record in the parent table and eliminates the redundancy of keeping all that extra data for every order. Foreign keys in child tables always refer to a primary/unique key in the parent field.
That help?

Two basic xcode questions (tabs and displaying members)

I have two questions about xcode that are most likely answered easily:
1. Is there a way to set it so that selecting a block of text and hitting tab or shift tab will indent it instead of replacing it with a tab? I know that i can right click and do move right, but that is pretty irritating to do on a regular basis.
2. How do I get xcode to display members of classes and structs when I am typing? For example if I type 'var->' I want it to pop up a list of available members that belong to var for me to choose from. Or if I type 'function(' i want it to list what the parameters are that function is expecting.

I don't think that anyone much gives a flying fsck what "features" are available; unless that person is trying to "sell" something to you.
Of course, I assumed your standards were based on what Micro$hite offers you. Why should that be a standard?
If you want similar features, you will have to use a proprietary Apple API. Believe me, you can get it. But you cannot inspect MFC from inside Apple's IDE.
I'm sorry, I don't really intend my remarks to be harsh. It just astonishes me when people don't realize that these folks are not in business to HELP YOU but are in business to MAKE MONEY.
I'm not even saying this is wrong. I'm just saying, you should not be astonished.

Few questions about apex + epg and cookie blocked by IE6

Hi,
I would like to ask a few questions about apex and epg.
I have already installed and configured apex 3.2 on oracle 10g (on my localhost - computer name 'chen_rong', ip address -192.168.88.175 ), and enable anonymous access xdb http server.
now,
1. I can access 'http://chen_rong' , 'http://localhost' , 'http://192.168.88.175' without input username / password for realm 'XDB' in IE6;
2. I can access 'http://localhost/apex/apex_admin' , 'http://192.168.88.175/apex/apex_admin' , and I can be redirected into apex administation page after input admin/<my apex admin password> for realm 'APEX' in IE6;
3. I can access 'http://chen_rong/apex/apex_admin' in IE6, but after input admin/password , I can not be redirected into administation page, because the cookie was blocked by IE6.
then, the first question is :
Q1: What is the difference among 'http://chen_rong' , 'http://localhost' , 'http://192.168.88.175' ? I have already include site 'chen_rong' into my trusted stes! why the cookie was blocked by IE6. I have already tried firefox and google browser, both of them were ok for 'chen_rong', no cookie blocked from site 'chen_rong'!
and,
1. I have tried to use the script in attachment to test http authentication and also want to catch the cookie by utl_http .
2. please review the script for me.
3. I did:
SQL> exec show_url('http://localhost/apex/apex_admin/','ADMIN','Passw0rd');
HTTP response status code: 401
HTTP response reason phrase: Unauthorized
Please supplied the required Basic authentication username/password for realm XDB for the Web page.
Web page http://localhost/apex/apex_admin/ is protected.
MS-Author-Via: DAV
DAV: 1,2,<http://www.oracle.com/xdb/webdav/props>
Server: Oracle XML DB/Oracle Database
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="XDB"
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:25:15 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=GBK
Content-Length: 147
======================================
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed
4. I also did :
SQL> exec show_url('http://localhost/apex/apex_admin/','ANONYMOUS','ANONYMOUS');
HTTP response status code: 500
HTTP response reason phrase: Internal Server Error
Check if the Web site is up.
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed
SQL> exec show_url('http://localhost/apex/apex_admin/','SYSTEM','apexsite');
HTTP response status code: 401
HTTP response reason phrase: Unauthorized
Please supplied the required Basic authentication username/password for realm APEX for the Web page.
Web page http://localhost/apex/apex_admin/ is protected.
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 147
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="APEX"
======================================
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed
my second questions is :
Q2: After I entered into realm 'XDB', I still need went into realm'APEX'. how could I change the script show_url to accomplish these two tasks and successfully get the cookie from site.
the show_url script is as following:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE show_url
(url IN VARCHAR2,
username IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL,
password IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL)
AS
req UTL_HTTP.REQ;
resp UTL_HTTP.RESP;
name VARCHAR2(256);
value VARCHAR2(1024);
data VARCHAR2(255);
my_scheme VARCHAR2(256);
my_realm VARCHAR2(256);
my_proxy BOOLEAN;
cookies UTL_HTTP.COOKIE_TABLE;
secure VARCHAR2(1);
BEGIN
-- When going through a firewall, pass requests through this host.
-- Specify sites inside the firewall that don't need the proxy host.
-- UTL_HTTP.SET_PROXY('proxy.example.com', 'corp.example.com');
-- Ask UTL_HTTP not to raise an exception for 4xx and 5xx status codes,
-- rather than just returning the text of the error page.
UTL_HTTP.SET_RESPONSE_ERROR_CHECK(FALSE);
-- Begin retrieving this Web page.
req := UTL_HTTP.BEGIN_REQUEST(url);
-- Identify yourself.
-- Some sites serve special pages for particular browsers.
UTL_HTTP.SET_HEADER(req, 'User-Agent', 'Mozilla/4.0');
-- Specify user ID and password for pages that require them.
IF (username IS NOT NULL) THEN
UTL_HTTP.SET_AUTHENTICATION(req, username, password, 'Basic', false);
END IF;
-- Start receiving the HTML text.
resp := UTL_HTTP.GET_RESPONSE(req);
-- Show status codes and reason phrase of response.
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('HTTP response status code: ' || resp.status_code);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE
('HTTP response reason phrase: ' || resp.reason_phrase);
-- Look for client-side error and report it.
IF (resp.status_code >= 400) AND (resp.status_code <= 499) THEN
-- Detect whether page is password protected
-- and you didn't supply the right authorization.
IF (resp.status_code = UTL_HTTP.HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED) THEN
UTL_HTTP.GET_AUTHENTICATION(resp, my_scheme, my_realm, my_proxy);
IF (my_proxy) THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Web proxy server is protected.');
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT('Please supply the required ' || my_scheme ||
' authentication username/password for realm ' || my_realm ||
' for the proxy server.');
ELSE
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Please supplied the required ' || my_scheme ||
' authentication username/password for realm ' || my_realm ||
' for the Web page.');
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Web page ' || url || ' is protected.');
END IF;
ELSE
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Check the URL.');
END IF;
-- UTL_HTTP.END_RESPONSE(resp);
-- RETURN;
-- Look for server-side error and report it.
ELSIF (resp.status_code >= 500) AND (resp.status_code <= 599) THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Check if the Web site is up.');
UTL_HTTP.END_RESPONSE(resp);
RETURN;
END IF;
-- HTTP header lines contain information about cookies, character sets,
-- and other data that client and server can use to customize each
-- session.
FOR i IN 1..UTL_HTTP.GET_HEADER_COUNT(resp) LOOP
UTL_HTTP.GET_HEADER(resp, i, name, value);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(name || ': ' || value);
END LOOP;
-- Read lines until none are left and an exception is raised.
--LOOP
-- UTL_HTTP.READ_LINE(resp, value);
-- DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(value);
--END LOOP;
UTL_HTTP.GET_COOKIES(cookies);
dbms_output.put_line('======================================');
FOR i in 1..cookies.count LOOP
IF (cookies(i).secure) THEN
secure := 'Y';
ELSE
secure := 'N';
END IF;
-- INSERT INTO my_cookies
-- VALUES (my_session_id, cookies(i).name, cookies(i).value,
-- cookies(i).domain,
-- cookies(i).expire, cookies(i).path, secure, cookies(i).version);
dbms_output.put_line('site:'||url);
dbms_output.put_line('cookies:');
dbms_output.put_line('name:'||cookies(i).name);
dbms_output.put_line('value:'||cookies(i).value);
dbms_output.put_line('domain:'||cookies(i).domain);
dbms_output.put_line('expire:'||cookies(i).expire);
dbms_output.put_line('path:'||cookies(i).path);
dbms_output.put_line('secure:'||secure);
dbms_output.put_line('version:'||cookies(i).version);
END LOOP;
UTL_HTTP.END_RESPONSE(resp);
EXCEPTION
WHEN UTL_HTTP.END_OF_BODY THEN
UTL_HTTP.END_RESPONSE(resp);
END;
/

I use oracle database enterprise edtion 10.2.0.3. I have already figured out the epg on 10.2.0.3 to support apex 3.2.
And as I described above, the apex site works fine for ip address , and localhost. but the cookie will be blocked by IE6, if I want to access the site by 'http://computername:port/apex/apex_admin'. This problem does not occured in firefox and google browser. Could someone give me answer?

Question about external displays.

Just curious about external display use with the macbook.
I want to link up using DVI to DVI but I recently read that my external display will only show the same as the macbook display, and that i cant use the macbook display, and the external display as two seperate screens? but i read its possible to do on the macbook pro. Is this correct?

I don't normally use my macbook with my primary display, but I have tried it out.
I hooked it up via vga, rather than dvi though.
It worked fine, but defaulted to mirrored. There is an option in the settings to disable mirroring, and use the macbook as the primary and the external as the secondary.
I haven't found any way to swap them, and have the macbook as the secondary display.
The management of the screens was pretty cool though. You can drag and drop the screens so their relative position is set up how you want it (over/under, left/right, etc).
hope that this helps...
-jamie
MacBook 2.0GHz (white) Mac OS X (10.4.7)

A quick question about WebDynpro SLD and R/3 with concurrent users

Hello ,
I have a very quick question about Webdynpros and SLD connecting to an R/3 system, when you configure a webdynpro to connect to an R/3 system using SLD, you configure a user name and password from the R/3 for the SLD to use. What I would like to know is when I have concurrent users of my webdynpro, how can I know what one user did in R/3 and what another user did? Is there a way for the users of the web dynpro to use their R/3 credentials so SLD can access the R/3? Like dynamically configuring the SLD for each user?
- I would like to avoid leaving their their passwords open in the code ( configuring two variable to get the users username and password and use these variables as JCO username and password )
Thanks Ubergeeks,
Guy

Hi Guy
You will have to use Single Sign On to achieve this. In the destination you have defined to connect to R/3 , there is an option to 'useSSO' instead of userid and password. This will ensure that calls to R/3 will be with the userid that has logged into WAS. You wont need to pass any passwords because a login ticket is generated from WAS and passed on to R/3. The userid is derived from this ticket.
For this to happen you will have to maintain a trust relation ship between R/3 and your WAS ,there is detailed documentation of this in help files. Configuration is very straight forward and is easy to perform
Regards
Pran

Question about session variables and binding

Hi All,
I'm a newbie with Application Express. I've gone through several tutorials and a book, and now I'm actually getting started with apex. My first adventure is a tiny little form, where all you do is fill it out and it sends an email. Pretty simple.
And, i have it working just fine - but I have a question about something I don't quite understand. Basically, I am generating the email text in a page process. And some of the form fields work fine if i reference them as *:ACCT_NAME*, but some give me the dreaded "not all variables bound" error. For the ones that give me the error, I can reference them like V('ACCT_NAME').
So, as a newbie, I'm a little confused. When is it appropriate to use the V function, and when it is appropriate to use binding? Why would one of the fields work with binding but not another from the same form?
Thanks for any clarification you can offer,
Lisa

Lisa,
A bind variable is a place holder variable available in an environment.It is used quite frequently(outside Apex Context) in SQL and PLSQL scripts and especially in Dynamic SQL statements.Many times using a bind variable gives better performance. In the Apex environment,page items and many other variables related to the session are available as bind variables and hence their value can be referred in SQL,PLSQL contexts as :VARIABLE_NAME.
Now V() function is an apex specific function which returns the value of an apex session variable outside the apex environment. So as Machaan pointed out, it is used in
procedures and triggers that gets called from within an apex session. This is required since the bind variables themselves are not directly available in the SQL environment but their values from the corresponding session can be accessed by this apex built-in function.
The length of any Bind variable name is limited to 30 characters, this is a limitation inherited from Oracle SQL itself and hence session variables(page or application items) whose name has a length which exceeds 30 characters cannot be used as the :ITEM_NAME format. In such cases you would have to use the v() method again. This might be happening in your case.

Question about Id3-tags and song managem

Hello, I am getting ready to buy a Zen Touch 20GB in a couple of weeks and I have a few questions about the management software.
(Correct me if I am wrong about something)
) Are songs organized into groups by Genre instead of just folders like on the Ipod?
2) Are Id3-tags used instead of filename for identification?
3) What parts of the tag are needed besides title and artist?
4) Which version of tags does the Zen Touch recognize: Version or Version 2?
5) If I edit my tags using an external program such as Id3-TagIT, will the tags carry over to the Creative software and to the player?
Thanks a lot for your help. I want to make sure I have my music collection in order before I get my Zen Touch.

euph_jay wrote:Ok, so lets say I have all my music in folders right now seperated into different categories on my hard dri've. Some folders denote the artist, some the album, and some a genre. Example: Folder: Chicago Contents: Chicago .mp3 files Folder: Techno Contents: various Techno artist's songs What is the best way of organizing my folder system, so that the transition will be easy to the player?
Folders are pretty much irrelevant. What the software will do is look at the *tags* in the files and then use these to build the player's library.
Will imbedded folders work on the player? (like Techno->Crystal Method->Cystal Method .mp3's)
Again the player has no concept of folders, although if you set Techno as a Genre tag you will be able to view via this in the Music Library.
Or, am I misunderstanding how music is stored into the mp3 player. Instead of storing music in a "folder like" system (like the Chicago folder or Techno folder), does it store all the songs individually on the device? Then you have to sort it by artist, album, or genre?
Using your example, in the Music Library you have essentially three categories: Album, Artist, and Genre. So under Album you would see "Vegas" (the Crystal Method's album), under Artist you would see "The Crystal Method", and under Genre you would see "Techno" (and then either the album or artist under this... I forget which it is offhand).
Make sense?

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