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RE: [ecs] Intranet connection problem solved (and perhaps others as well ?) Mark Gilmore Sun, 16 Mar 2003 18:35:31 -0800

Sun, 16 Mar 2003 18:35:31 -0800

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You're a good man !

At 08:33 PM 3/16/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>Hi Mark -
>
>Yep, that fixed it - works fine here!!
>
>I'll have a demo box running in a couple of days,
>
>Leland
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Gilmore [mailto:mark@markgilmore.net]
>Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 7:39 PM
>To: ecs@netbloc.com
>Subject: [ecs] Intranet connection problem solved (and perhaps others as
>well ?)
>
>
>Ingo's comment regarding getHostName() led me to look for such a call in my
>code.
>But I found none.
>I then inserted multiple "trace" lines to see where the crash was actually
>happening,
>which led me to THIS line (whose purpose is only to log some info):
>          print("connect:my  ip-0=" + cd_ccmd.getLocalAddress() + ":" +
>cd_ccmd.getLocalPort());
>'tis getLocalAddress() that is causing the crash.
>What does it do ?:
>          "Gets the local address to which the socket is bound." Well, hells
>bells - I should have known better :-) (sarc). I really hate to whine, but
>JAVA is the "mushiest jungle of an environment" that I have ever dealt with
>(by leap and bounds). You make calls to things like "getImage(url)". But it
>returns immediately, and really doesn't "get" anything. You call repaint()
>to display an image, and it takes a master of the black arts to determine
>when the damn thing has actually been painted. I'm sorry for the tantrum,
>but it sometimes helps to "vent", and I REALLY don't like JAVA !!
>
>CORRECTED ui.jar attached (zipped).
>Please unzip in \ECS and re-start I.E.
>
>INGO:
>Thanks for the tip, but my calls seem fine now.
>But I always save your emails for reference :-).
>
>Mark Gilmore
>http://OmnipotenceSoftware.com
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