Why can't you tell whether or not a program is open?

When looking at all of the icons on my dock (or is it dashboard?) at the bottom of the screen, there is no indication of which programs are open (and therefore should be closed for greater efficiency) and which are closed. Is this now an option or an "improvement" (that frankly eludes me)? If there's a way to turn on the active-inactive indicator for programs represented by the icons in my dock, I'd appreciate learning the secret.
Thanks,
Cap

Thanks, I didn't know about that command. The site, I see, has hundreds of docks to choose from. Avoid the reflective ones, the checkered ones, and a few others, and you should be OK. The problem is the inadequate attention given to the learning curve some of us require to download them, go through 4-5 sets of sub-folders, give terminal commands, etc. to make the replacement. I tried with the minimal instructions provided and wound up reinstalling Leopard (the idea is to trash the contents of a deeply embedded original folder but to back it up while inserting new contents into the original folder--it soon lost me, and I lost my original folder and dock altogether). Darn those white dots and the reflective effect of the icons sitting on a mirror.

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hai everyone
iam studying jdbc and this is what i understood about the basic concept .can any one tell whether the concept which i understood is correct or not
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help me to clear my confusion
thanks in advance

hai everyone
iam studying jdbc and this is what i understood about
the basic concept .can any one tell whether the
concept which i understood is correct or not
whenever the statement class.forName("driver class")
is executed driver class is loaded and registered
with drivermanager.Internally drivr class contains a
static bloc which contains the following code
static
Driver drv=new name of driver class();
DriverManager.registerDriver(drv);
}That's supposed to be the case, but there's no way to guarantee that every driver actually has that static init. I don't think I've ever run across one that doesn't, though, so, yes, you're basically correct.
whenever the statement class.forName("driver class")
is executed,static bloc is executed first and driver
class is registerd.When you do Class.forName(), the class is loaded and initialized. Whenever you initialize a class, its static init blocks are executed, yes.
concept as i understood about
DriverManager:
suppose there may be situations where an application
developed in java has to deal with one or several
databases and this is accomplished with one or
different driver classes.so all these driver classes
are to be managed and this is done by DriverManager
class and in order to make the driver class itself
known to the driver manager we have to register the
driver classes with the help of registerDriver()
method of DriverManager class because
DriverManager is the class which will attempt
to load the driver classes into memory..Except for that last part, yes.
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what i understood is since the responsibility of
loading the class is done by class.forName("driver
class") only registering of the driver class is done
as the class is alredy loaded.Right.

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