Visualizing maps with the Map Definition Tool

Right. I am totally confused with this. I am trying to get the map definition tool working so that I can visualise some map data stored in my database. I downloaded the mapdef.jar file from the otn site and first of all it returned a zip file containing a whole load of class files. When I downloaded it a second time it returned the jar file and when I click on that it opens up a blank grey screen. I am going through the mapviewer manual with a fine tooth comb but am still having problems visualizing even a basic map. Mapviewer is working fine but I need to visualise the data rather than just to construct a map conceptually. My host, port, sid etc. details are correct. Can anyone please tell me where do I go from here!

You don't 'install' the Map Definition Tool as such. Its just a standalone jar file. You run it using the batch file - that'll look something like:
java -classpath mapdef.jar;C:\j2ee\home\lib\classes12.jar -Dhost="127.0.0.1" -Dsid="orcl" -Dport="1521" -Duser="scott" -Dpassword="tiger" oracle.eLocation.console.GeneralManager

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Just to let everyone know that the first product release of
the Oracle 9iAS MapViewer is now available for download at
the following site:
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Important note:
Included in the downloadable MapViewer kit is a Map
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enterprise wide mapping symbols and rules. This tool however
is still in beta status. Please report all problems, bugs
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Spatial discussion forum.
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Hi,
For starters, this problem is not associated with the thread that Brian Z. has posted at the top of this forum. Having said that, here's my problem:
I had installed Security Update 2006-003, and Quicktime 7.1. Permissions were repaired before and after each installation, and all went well.
Some hours later, I was experimenting with Apple Remote Desktop. I had activated ARD in the System Preferences>Sharing pane, and it provided me an IP address associated with ARD. I then turned on Airport, and ARD provided me with an IP address associated with that connection. However when I turned off my modem connection, System Preferences>Sharing hung, and had to be Force Quit.
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===== Mon May 15 2006 ===== 21:09:09 America/Anchorage =====
2006-05-15 21:09:17.488 System Preferences[2732] Can't open input server /Library/InputManagers/Menu Extra Enabler.bundle
2006-05-15 21:09:28.224 System Preferences[2732] ### Error:268435460 File:FileSharing.m Line:308
2006-05-15 21:09:38.230 System Preferences[2732] ### Error:268435460 File:FileSharing.m Line:343
2006-05-15 21:09:48.415 System Preferences[2732] ### Error:268435460 File:FileSharing.m Line:343
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com.apple.RemoteDesktop.plist
com.apple.Remotemanagement.plist
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I found this crash log that was generated about the time I had problems with System Preferences hanging.
Thoughts?
Bob
Entitled "writeconfig.crash.log"
Host Name: Bobs-Big-Mac.local
Date/Time: 2006-05-15 21:08:17 -0800
OS Version: 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2
Command: writeconfig
Path: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Resources/writeconfig
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 2707
Thread: 0
Exception: EXC_BREAKPOINT (0x0006)
Code[0]: 0x00000001
Code[1]: 0x90a8d2c0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a8d2c0 _NSRaiseError + 0xf8
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a349d8 -[NSConnection sendInvocation:] + 0x6a4
2 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a2d8e0 -[NSObject(NSForwardInvocation) forward::] + 0x198
3 libobjc.A.dylib 0x90866810 objcmsgForward + 0xb0
4 writeconfig 0x0000baac 0x1000 + 0xaaac
5 writeconfig 0x0000ec84 0x1000 + 0xdc84
6 writeconfig 0x0000ad88 0x1000 + 0x9d88
7 writeconfig 0x0000abfc 0x1000 + 0x9bfc
PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x90a8d2c0 srr1: 0x0202f030 vrsave: 0x00000000
cr: 0x24000442 xer: 0x00000000 lr: 0x90a8d298 ctr: 0x90a23528
r0: 0x00000000 r1: 0xbffff430 r2: 0xa0a204bc r3: 0xa0a34e20
r4: 0x9086eb88 r5: 0x20000000 r6: 0xbffff110 r7: 0x00000000
r8: 0x00000001 r9: 0x0030d370 r10: 0x00000239 r11: 0x28000442
r12: 0x90a23528 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000000 r19: 0x00000000
r20: 0x00000000 r21: 0x00000000 r22: 0x00000000 r23: 0x00000000
r24: 0x00310680 r25: 0xbffffcd8 r26: 0x00311c50 r27: 0xa0a2af6c
r28: 0xa0a30e7c r29: 0xa0a24ae0 r30: 0x003109a0 r31: 0x90a8d1d0
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"Disk Utility has lost its connection with the Disk Management Tool and cannot continue. Please quit and relaunch Disk Utility." Trying to format my iomega external HD for use with Mac

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Hi all,
I just created/changed a field with the UI config tool. I renamed the label in source language EN, and tried to translate via SE63>Abap Objects>short texts>s6>BSP2
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Regards
Christian

Hello,
In your case, you have to code to render the new configuration you have created. By default the DEFAULT configuration would be rendered for all the SAP components. In the view controller class, there would be a method called DO_CONFIG_DETERMINATION. In this method , depending on your condition, make a call to the method SET_CONFIG_KEYS for which you would have pass the attributes of new configuration like ROLE_KEY, OBJECT_TYPE etc..
This should resolve the problem. Let me know if you have any queries.
Regards,
Nag

Why can't I move artwork with the perspective selection tool?

I created a carpet and decorated it with symbols. When I tried to place it in the perspective grid with the perspective tool, it wouldn't move. I can move it fine with the selection tool and there's a bounding box but nothing happens when I use the perspective selection tool.
Need help. Thanks.

You have to make sure that one of the grids (Left, Right, Horizontal) is active.
Just check the widget that appears when you select the Perspective Grid Tool. You can click on those sides of the cube with the Perspective Grid or the Perspective Selection Tool to make one of them active. You can also press the key 1, 2 or 3 to make either of those grids active.
If you click on the circular portion outside the cube, none of the grids is active. Then you can't move the artwork with the Perspective Selection Tool. You can press the key 4 to make none of the grids active which is especially useful when you don't want your artwork to distort in perspective while still working with the Perspective Grid showing on the artboard.

Setting fixed width on columns with the Column Graph Tool

Hi,
I'm trying to perfect my charts a little.
Right now the width of my columns using the Column Graph Tool seem to be dictated by how many columns I got in total. So if I only have two columns both get really wide. But if I have four, they look just nice. Is there any way to set a fixed width on columns with the Column Graph Tool?
Thanks!

What am I thinking.
Select your graph double click the graph tool at the bottom of the dialog, enter the percentage you want the coulmns to be and the percentage you want that cluster to occupy.
Duh!

Keyframing width with the Paint Stoke tool

Hi,
I'm trying to draw a line with the paint stroke tool in Motion 3 and have it animate using the write-on function. All good so far......
The problem is, I want the line to start thick (say width 65) then carry on thinner (say with 50) to emulate handwriting with a marker pen.
When I try key-framing the width parameter of the paint stroke, it changes the thickness of the line BEFORE the key frame too
I guess its because the line is one object so any changes will happen to all of it.
How can I get around this? I thought maybe razor cutting the paintstroke clip in the timeline may help but I can't find a way to do this either.
Please help!
Many thanks
Rob

Use the Sequence Paint behavior.

How do I copy just the color with the Eye Dropper Tool?

Anytime I use the tool to copy a color, the entire format copies and changes the look of the object I already have selected. Is there a way to set my preferences so I only copy color with the Eye Dropper tool?

Hmm...I'm not sure what's going wrong, but even that doesn't seem to work. I think using Shift will help fine, because I do still benefit from copying objects in the same format. But I still appreciate the help. Thanks.

After I chose a color with the eye dropper tool, the filler fills in a grayer version of the color, for some reason.

I have CS3 and after I chose a color with the eye dropper tool, the filler fills in a grayer version of the color for some reason. Everything was fine till I accidentally picked the color sampler tool instead of the eye dropper tool. I undid that, but then after that everything with the regular eye dropper tool and the fill tool got messed up. How can I fix it?

Sorry, I am new to the forum, and a novice with not much knowledge about computers. Sorry if some terms that I use here may not be entirely correct, as I am ignorant of terms of the trade. My Operating system is Mac 10.6.8. I am using Photoshop 10.0.1. I am doing a many layered color RGB setting artwork from scanned and photo images, 8 bits/channel. I have been working on this project for a month without any problems. I was using the eye dropper tool. I selected a color in my artwork and it showed up in the background color box, in the tools window, as a match from the sample that I had taken. Then I selected an area, with the lasso tool, and I accidentally picked the tool called "color sample tool", that puts a little target on the sample area and then a box pops up with numbers that move when the tool moves. That wasn't what I wanted, so I got out of there and chose the eye dropper, I selected the color, it looked good in the box in the tools window, but then when I went up to the fill command and chose fill ( which was set at 100%). I filled the selection, but it was not the color I chose that is in box, it was a grayed and lightened version of the one that I chose. I checked the layers setting and the opacity and fill were at 100%, as was the fill setting. I can't figure out what is making it not fill in the color that is chosen in the tools color window. Does anyone on this forum have an idea of what might be happening and how to fix it?

How do I constrain anchor angle when I tug on a path with the direct select tool?

How do I constrain anchor angle when I tug on a path with the direct select tool like it did in every version of Illustrator since 1988? New behavior is costing me time.

That solves it!
I was not able to find this in the online materials about the pen tool. In fact, Illustrator Help | Adjust path segments does not show the new functionality at all. They need to update that article.
Better way to implement the new functionality
It would have been nice if Adobe added to the chording controls for the direct select tool the ability to toggle this setting temporarily by holding down the space bar after mouse down to drag a segment.
Before mouse down this would give the user the hand tool.
If, after mouse down, I could hold space bar and have the behavior switch from the historical capability where dragging a segment cannot change adjacent segments to the new behavior where dragging the segment cannot move anchors but can rotate them, I am sure I would find times when the tool saved time. If, before mouse up, I release spacebar, turn the constraint back on with anchors pointing in their new directions and allow me to stretch the curve protecting the new shapes of adjacent curves.
Using space bar for this would be intuitive to me because holding down the space bar is something I already do to organically drag the page around with the hand tool. The new tool allows me to more organically stretch artwork around, something that is distantly analogous, but close enough to remember.
For long time Illustrator users, the chording features holding Ctrl/Alt/Shift/Space or Ctrl/Command/Shift/Space in different combinations while using the direct select tool and pen tool is the killer app part of Illustrator that keeps us using it. This what we did on Illustrator 88 on a Mac Plus in 1988 and is still the most productive way to produce vector art when precision is required.

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