BootX problem

Dear All...
Can somebody please tell me how to compile bootx. I downloaded the source code, but can't work out how to do it. I imported it into Xcode, but that didn't work. Maybe someone can tell me at least which development enviroment I am supposed to be using. I am compiling BootX-59. Or am I supposed to be compiling a different version???

First thing to try would be holding down the Option key while selecting empty trash. Doing that ignores the locked flag on files, and forces them to delete.

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Here's a challenge: How do I delete an unneeded locked BootX file????

Here's the background; Internal hard disk died. Have an external disk so set up the OS on that while I installed a new internal disk. That worked fine, installed the OS again on it & all is well. And no I didn't move it from the external, I started again.
Here's the problem; Thought I'd clear off the OS from the external drive by dragging & dropping into the trash. That all worked except for a BootX file that's locked. It's in folders System/Library/CoreServices. After trying a couple of maneuvers have multiple copies of these folders & the file in my trash & a file on my desktop!!
How do I get rid of this thing?!?!?

Another possibility. Depress the Option key when you empty trash. Should override the locked file.
 Cheers, Tom

Deleting BootX?

I have a problem that I was hoping somebody may help me with....
I rebuilt my system after a harddrive failure by installing the OSX on an external firewire drive, migrating settings etc to firewire drive, reformatting the system boot drive and then re-installing on the system boot and migrating back.
Then I went to remove the old system files from the firewire drive by dropping into trash........found a problem in that I cannot remove BootX from trash as well as a number of other 'hidden' system files (seem to be html files, graphics for instructions/programming directions). Error message is that the files are locked and, when I look at them in Info, do not seem to be able to unlock them because system has read/write control only.
Any way people know of flushing these files from Trash? There are about 60 of them and they are annoying because they appear first when emptying Trash and I have to 'continue' about 100 times before I start deleting files!!
Am assuming some type of 'Terminal' changes at root level but not too confident with this!
Thanks Gareth

First thing to try would be holding down the Option key while selecting empty trash. Doing that ignores the locked flag on files, and forces them to delete.

BootX permissions issues making DVDs unable to boot?

I've seen this behavior before, and thought I'd ask the question here in the Unix forum to see if anyone knows a way to fix those permissions and/or BootX itself so the problem is resolved for this person without having to reinstall:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2069720

Quick Quint wrote:
Thank you for your quick response, trust me i wont do it again....ever, lesson learned!!
Is there any other way i can unfubar other than archive and install eg get to the drive in target disk mode and do something there?
If I do do archive and install as you suggest will I lose any data on the main drive? and will all apps and settings need to be re installed or is there a way to migrate these over to the fresh install?
In general an archive and install is a kind of repair in which you restore all the apps but do not lose any personal files etc. It's not foolproof, but for most users, it usually fixes major problems.
You will find on your HD after doing this, a folder labeled "Previous System(s)" which contains most of your original system, highly compressed.
At the point where you are, VK's suggestion is your best shot. You may still have issues but if you can get it booted, you can at least create a backup of what you have before attempting to fix other things that might have wrong permissions, etc.
Good Luck.

"Preparing for installation" or "Preparing to move to disk" problem

Hi there,
I'm trying to install Wacom Intuos4 Pen Tablet driver from a .pkg but nothing happens. Stucked at "Preparing for installation" screen. Tried to move the .pkg file to MachintoshHD but stucked again at "Preparing to move to disk" stage. I have a late 2012 iMac with OS X Yosemite. Can you please help me? ^^

I booted the computer from the installation disk and reinstalled, but this time after restart, I get stuck at the blue launchd screen when starting up from the startup disk... I accessed disk utility form the installation disk but it found no problems with the disk...
A safe boot will eventually open the login screen in safe mode although it takes about 5 minutes at the BootX booting screen and login drags pretty bad. After login, I'm stuck with only the standard os x background. To be clear, I've waited around a half hour at least once at each point startup has been stopping.

Cannot Empty Trash Boot.efi and BootX

Hello guys
So today I got an external HD , and tryied time machine for the first time since i got my mac 8 months ago. After 3 hours or so i decided not to use it anymore :-/ and just backup the classic copy paste way. So i turned off the time machine clicked stop backing up and removed the backups from the external HD to the trash , my problem now is that the files boot.efi and bootX are locked , option key - empty trash won't help. What can i do to solve this and empty my trash from Boot.efi and BootX?
Thank you!
leonidas

Okey it is done i checked once again everything if i forgot something on from Time Machine ... restarted and then Alt-Empty and it was done
Thank You

A problem with threads

I am trying to implement some kind of a server listening for requests. The listener part of the app, is a daemon thread that listens for connections and instantiates a handling daemon thread once it gets some. However, my problem is that i must be able to kill the listening thread at the user's will (say via a sto button). I have done this via the Sun's proposed way, by testing a boolean flag in the loop, which is set to false when i wish to kill the thread. The problem with this thing is the following...
Once the thread starts excecuting, it will test the flag, find it true and enter the loop. At some point it will LOCK on the server socket waiting for connection. Unless some client actually connects, it will keep on listening indefinatelly whithought ever bothering to check for the flag again (no matter how many times you set the damn thing to false).
My question is this: Is there any real, non-theoretical, applied way to stop thread in java safely?
Thank you in advance,
Lefty

This was one solution from the socket programming forum, have you tried this??
public Thread MyThread extends Thread{
     boolean active = true;
     public void run(){
          ss.setSoTimeout(90);
          while (active){
               try{
                    serverSocket = ss.accept();
               catch (SocketTimeoutException ste){
               // do nothing
     // interrupt thread
     public void deactivate(){
          active = false;
          // you gotta sleep for a time longer than the
          // accept() timeout to make sure that timeout is finished.
          try{
               sleep(91);
          }catch (InterruptedException ie){
          interrupt();
}

A problem with Threads and MMapi

I am tring to execute a class based on Game canvas.
The problem begin when I try to Play both a MIDI tone and to run an infinit Thread loop.
The MIDI tone "Stammers".
How to over come the problem?
Thanks in advance
Kobi
See Code example below:
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.Graphics;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.Image;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.game.GameCanvas;
import javax.microedition.media.Manager;
import javax.microedition.media.MediaException;
import javax.microedition.media.Player;
public class MainScreenCanvas extends GameCanvas implements Runnable {
     private MainMIDlet parent;
     private boolean mTrucking = false;
     Image imgBackgound = null;
     int imgBackgoundX = 0, imgBackgoundY = 0;
     Player player;
     public MainScreenCanvas(MainMIDlet parent)
          super(true);
          this.parent = parent;
          try
               imgBackgound = Image.createImage("/images/area03_bkg0.png");
               imgBackgoundX = this.getWidth() - imgBackgound.getWidth();
               imgBackgoundY = this.getHeight() - imgBackgound.getHeight();
          catch(Exception e)
               System.out.println(e.getMessage());
      * starts thread
     public void start()
          mTrucking = true;
          Thread t = new Thread(this);
          t.start();
      * stops thread
     public void stop()
          mTrucking = false;
     public void play()
          try
               InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/sounds/scale.mid");
               player = Manager.createPlayer(is, "audio/midi");
               player.setLoopCount(-1);
               player.prefetch();
               player.start();
          catch(Exception e)
               System.out.println(e.getMessage());
     public void run()
          Graphics g = getGraphics();
          play();
          while (true)
               tick();
               input();
               render(g);
      * responsible for object movements
     private void tick()
      * response to key input
     private void input()
          int keyStates = getKeyStates();
          if ((keyStates & LEFT_PRESSED) != 0)
               imgBackgoundX++;
               if (imgBackgoundX > 0)
                    imgBackgoundX = 0;
          if ((keyStates & RIGHT_PRESSED) != 0)
               imgBackgoundX--;
               if (imgBackgoundX < this.getWidth() - imgBackgound.getWidth())
                    imgBackgoundX = this.getWidth() - imgBackgound.getWidth();
      * Responsible for the drawing
      * @param g
     private void render(Graphics g)
          g.drawImage(imgBackgound, imgBackgoundX, imgBackgoundY, Graphics.TOP | Graphics.LEFT);
          this.flushGraphics();
}

You can also try to provide a greater Priority to your player thread so that it gains the CPU time when ever it needs it and don't harm the playback.
However a loop in a Thread and that to an infinite loop is one kind of very bad programming, 'cuz the loop eats up most of your CPU time which in turn adds up more delays of the execution of other tasks (just as in your case it is the playback). By witting codes bit efficiently and planning out the architectural execution flow of the app before start writing the code helps solve these kind of issues.
You can go through [this simple tutorial|http://oreilly.com/catalog/expjava/excerpt/index.html] about Basics of Java and Threads to know more about threads.
Regds,
SD
N.B. And yes there are more articles and tutorials available but much of them targets the Java SE / EE, but if you want to read them here is [another great one straight from SUN|http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/concurrency/index.html] .
Edited by: find_suvro@SDN on 7 Nov, 2008 12:00 PM

J2ME problem with threads

Hi all,
I would like to ask you for a help. I need to write a small program at my university. I started to write a midlet which function would be to countdown time for sports activities. I woul like to start a new thread - the one that counts down - and at the same time make the main thread sleep. After the "countdown" thread finishes, the main thread wakes up and waits for user input. The problem is that when the "countdown" thread finishes his work, I've got Uncaught exception java/lang/NullPointerException. error and the midlet halts.
Below you can find the code
import java.lang.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.*;
import javax.microedition.midlet.*;
public class intervals extends MIDlet implements CommandListener
public Display ekran;
private SweepCanvas sweeper;
private Form rundy;
private TextField round0, round1, round2, round3, round4, round5, round6, round7, round8;
private long czas,x;
private Command exitCommand;
private Command addRound;
private Command delRound;
private Command start;
private TextField repeat;
private Form odliczanie;
private Alert ostrz;
Licznik thread;
String test;
StringItem test1;
int parz,i,j,k;
static int l;
int ilrund;
int ilpowt;
Item sec;
long sec1;
public intervals()
    rundy = new Form("Interwały sportowe");
    exitCommand = new Command("Wyjście", Command.EXIT, 2);
    addRound = new Command("Dodaj","Dodaj rundę", Command.ITEM,1);
    delRound = new Command("Usuń","Usuń ostatnią rundę", Command.ITEM,1);
    start = new Command("Start", Command.ITEM,1);
    odliczanie = new Form("Odliczanie");
    TextField dodaj(TextField kolej)
        kolej=new TextField("Podaj czas (s) rundy "+parz,null, 4, TextField.NUMERIC);//stworzenie nowej instancji do wybierania czasu trwania rundy
        if(rundy.size()==0)
            rundy.insert(rundy.size(),kolej);
            else
                rundy.insert(rundy.size()-1, kolej);
        return kolej;
    void odliczanie(TextField round)
        monitor m=new monitor();
        k=Integer.parseInt(round.getString());
        ekran.setCurrent(odliczanie);
        thread=new Licznik(k,odliczanie);
        thread.start();
        ekran.setCurrent(rundy);
public void startApp()// throws MIDletStateChangeException
    rundy.deleteAll();
    repeat = new TextField("Podaj ilość powtórzeń",null,1,TextField.NUMERIC);
    rundy.addCommand(addRound);
    rundy.addCommand(exitCommand);
    rundy.setCommandListener(this);
    Canvas obrazek = new MyCanvas();
    ekran = Display.getDisplay(this);
    ekran.setCurrent(obrazek);
    czas=System.currentTimeMillis();
    while (System.currentTimeMillis()<czas+1000)
        continue;
    ekran.setCurrent(rundy);
public void pauseApp()
public void destroyApp(boolean unconditional)
    notifyDestroyed();
public void commandAction(Command c, Displayable s)
    if (c == exitCommand)
        destroyApp(false);
        notifyDestroyed();
    else if(c==addRound)
        if(rundy.size()==0)//Sprawdzenie ilości elementów w celu poprawnego wyświetlania liczby rund w formie
            parz=1;
            else
            parz=rundy.size();
        switch(parz)
            case 1:
                round0=dodaj(round0);break;
            case 2:
                round1=dodaj(round1);break;
            case 3:
               round2= dodaj(round2);break;
            case 4:
                round3=dodaj(round3);break;
            case 5:
                round4=dodaj(round4);break;
            default:
                ostrz=new Alert("Uwaga","Maksymalna liczba rund wynosi 9", null, AlertType.INFO);
                ostrz.setTimeout(3000);
                ekran.setCurrent(ostrz);
        if(rundy.size()==1)
            rundy.append(repeat);
            rundy.addCommand(start);
        rundy.addCommand(delRound);
    else if(c==delRound)
        if(rundy.size()!=0)
            rundy.delete(rundy.size()-2);
            if (rundy.size()==1)
                rundy.deleteAll();
            if(rundy.size()==0)
                rundy.removeCommand(delRound);
                rundy.removeCommand(start);
    else if(c==start)
        ilrund=rundy.size()-1;
        if(this.repeat.size()>0)
            ilpowt=Integer.parseInt(this.repeat.getString());
        ekran = Display.getDisplay(this);
        for (i=1; i<=ilpowt;i++)
            odliczanie= new Form("Odliczanie");
             for (j=0;j<ilrund;j++)
                switch(j)
                     case 0:
                         odliczanie(round0);
                         break;
                     case 1:
                         odliczanie(round1);
                         break;
                     case 2:
                         odliczanie(round2);
                         break;
                     case 3:
                         odliczanie(round3);
                         break;
                     case 4:
                         odliczanie(round4);
                         break;
                     case 5:
                         odliczanie(round5);
                         break;
                     case 6:
                         odliczanie(round6);
                         break;
                     case 7:
                         odliczanie(round7);
                         break;
                     case 8:
                         odliczanie(round8);
                         break;
class Licznik extends Thread
    int czas1,k;
    Form forma;
    monitor m;
    public Licznik(int k,Form formap)
        czas1=k;
        forma=formap;
    public synchronized void run()
        while(czas1>0)
            forma.deleteAll();
            forma.append("Czas pozostały (s): "+czas1);
            try{Thread.sleep(1000);} catch(InterruptedException e){e.printStackTrace();}
            czas1--;
        if(czas1<=0)
            m.put();
    }and monitor class
public class monitor
boolean busy=false;
synchronized void get()
    if(!busy)
        try
            wait();
        }catch(InterruptedException e){e.printStackTrace();}
    notify();
synchronized void put()
    if(busy)
        try
        wait();
        }catch(InterruptedException e){e.printStackTrace();}
    busy=true;
    notify();
}Can anybody help me with this?

Groovemaker,
Your Licznik class has a member m of type monitor, which has not been instantiated (in other words is null) hence, when calling m.put() you get NullPointerException. Please also mind, that using Thread.sleep(1000) is not an accurate way of measuring time.
If I may, please use recommended for Java class naming conventions - some of your names use lower case, while other don't which is confusing to the reader.
Daniel

Problem with threads within applet

Hello,
I got an applet, inside this applet I have a singleton, inside this singleton I have a thread.
this thread is running in endless loop.
he is doing something and go to sleep on and on.
the problem is,
when I refresh my IE6 browser I see more than 1 thread.
for debug matter, I did the following things:
inside the thread, sysout every time he goes to sleep.
sysout in the singleton constructor.
sysout in the singleton destructor.
the output goes like this:
when refresh the page, the singleton constructor loading but not every refresh, sometimes I see the constructor output and sometimes I dont.
The thread inside the singleton is giving me the same output, sometime I see more than one thread at a time and sometimes I dont.
The destructor never works (no output there).
I don't understand what is going on.
someone can please shed some light?
thanks.
btw. I am working with JRE 1.1
this is very old and big applet and I can't convert it to something new.

Ooops. sorry!
I did.
     public void start() {
     public void stop() {
     public void destroy() {
          try {
               resetAll();
               Configuration.closeConnection();
               QuoteItem.closeConnection();
          } finally {
               try {
                    super.finalize();
               } catch (Throwable e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
     }

Problem with Threads and a static variable

I have a problem with the code below. I am yet to make sure that I understand the problem. Correct me if I am wrong please.
Code functionality:
A timer calls SetState every second. It sets the state and sets boolean variable "changed" to true. Then notifies a main process thread to check if the state changed to send a message.
The problem as far I understand is:
Assume the timer Thread calls SetState twice before the main process Thread runs. As a result, "changed" is set to true twice. However, since the main process is blocked twice during the two calls to SetState, when it runs it would have the two SetState timer threads blocked on its synchronized body. It will pass the first one, send the message and set "changed" to false since it was true. Now, it will pass the second thread, but here is the problem, "changed" is already set to false. As a result, it won't send the message even though it is supposed to.
Would you please let me know if my understanding is correct? If so, what would you propose to resolve the problem? Should I call wait some other or should I notify in a different way?
Thanks,
B.D.
Code:
private static volatile boolean bChanged = false;
private static Thread objMainProcess;
   protected static void Init(){
        objMainProcess = new Thread() {
            public void run() {
                while( objMainProcess == Thread.currentThread() ) {
                   GetState();
        objMainProcess.setDaemon( true );
        objMainProcess.start();
    public static void initStatusTimer(){
        if(objTimer == null)
             objTimer = new javax.swing.Timer( 1000, new java.awt.event.ActionListener(){
                public void actionPerformed( java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt){
                          SetState();
    private static void SetState(){
        if( objMainProcess == null ) return;
        synchronized( objMainProcess ) {
            bChanged = true;
            try{
                objMainProcess.notify();
            }catch( IllegalMonitorStateException e ) {}
    private static boolean GetState() {
        if( objMainProcess == null ) return false;
        synchronized( objMainProcess ) {
            if( bChanged) {
                SendMessage();
                bChanged = false;
                return true;
            try {
                objMainProcess.wait();
            }catch( InterruptedException e ) {}
            return false;
    }

Thanks DrClap for your reply. Everything you said is right. It is not easy to make them alternate since SetState() could be called from different places where the state could be anything else but a status message. Like a GREETING message for example. It is a handshaking message but not a status message.
Again as you said, There is a reason I can't call sendMessage() inside setState().
The only way I was able to do it is by having a counter of the number of notifies that have been called. Every time notify() is called a counter is incremented. Now instead of just checking if "changed" flag is true, I also check if notify counter is greater than zero. If both true, I send the message. If "changed" flag is false, I check again if the notify counter is greater than zero, I send the message. This way it works, but it is kind of a patch than a good design fix. I am yet to find a good solution.
Thanks,
B.D.

Problem with threads running javaw

Hi,
Having a problem with multi thread programming using client server sockets. The program works find when starting the the application in a console using java muti.java , but when using javaw multi.java the program doesnt die and have to kill it in the task manager. The program doesnt display any of my gui error messages either when the server disconnect the client. all works find in a console. any advice on this as I havent been able to understand why this is happening? any comment would be appreciated.
troy.

troy,
Try and post a minimum code sample of your app which
does not work.
When using javaw, make sure you redirect the standard
error and standard output streams to file.
Graeme.Hi Graeme,
I dont understand what you mean by redirection to file? some of my code below.
The code works fine under a console, code is supposed to exit when the client (the other server )disconnects. the problem is that but the clientworker side of the code still works. which under console it doesnt.
public class Server{
ServerSocket aServerSocket;
Socket dianosticsSocket;
Socket nPortExpress;
ClientListener aClientListener;
LinkedList queue = new LinkedList();
int port = 0;
int clientPort = 0;
String clientName = null;
boolean serverAlive = true;
* Server constructor generates a server
* Socket and then starts a client threads.
* @param aPort      socket port of local machine.
public Server(int aPort, String aClientName, int aClientPort){
port = aPort;
clientName = aClientName;
clientPort = aClientPort;
try{
// create a new thread
aServerSocket = new ServerSocket(port) ;
// connect to the nPortExpress
aClientListener = new ClientListener(InetAddress.getByName(clientName), clientPort, queue,this);
// aClientListener.setDaemon(true);
aClientListener.start();
// start a dianostic port
DiagnosticsServer aDiagnosticsServer = new DiagnosticsServer(port,queue,aClientListener);
// System.out.println("Server is running on port " + port + "...");
// System.out.println("Connect to nPort");
catch(Exception e)
// System.out.println("ERROR: Server port " + port + " not available");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, (e.toString()),"ERROR: Server port " + port + " not available", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
serverAlive = false;
System.exit(1);
while(serverAlive&&aClientListener.hostSocket.isConnected()){
try{
// connect the client
Socket aClient = aServerSocket.accept();
//System.out.println("open client connection");
//System.out.println("client local: "+ aClient.getLocalAddress().toString());
// System.out.println("client localport: "+ aClient.getLocalPort());
// System.out.println("client : "+ aClient.getInetAddress().toString());
// System.out.println("client port: "+ aClient.getLocalPort());
// make a new client thread
ClientWorker clientThread = new ClientWorker(aClient, queue, aClientListener, false);
// start thread
clientThread.start();
catch(Exception e)
//System.out.println("ERROR: Client connection failure");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, (e.toString()),"ERROR: Client connection failure", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
}// end while
} // end constructor Server
void serverExit(){
     JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Server ","ERROR: nPort Failure", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
     System.exit(1);
}// end class Server
*** connect to another server
public class ClientListener extends Thread{
InetAddress hostName;
int hostPort;
Socket hostSocket;
BufferedReader in;
PrintWriter out;
boolean loggedIn;
LinkedList queue;      // reference to Server queue
Server serverRef; // reference to main server
* ClientListener connects to the host server.
* @param aHostName is the name of the host eg server name or IP address.
* @param aHostPort is a port number of the host.
* @param aLoginName is the users login name.
public ClientListener(InetAddress aHostName, int aHostPort,LinkedList aQueue,Server aServer)      // reference to Server queue)
hostName = aHostName;
hostPort = aHostPort;
queue = aQueue;
serverRef = aServer;
// connect to the server
try{
hostSocket = new Socket(hostName, hostPort);
catch(IOException e){
//System.out.println("ERROR: Connection Host Failed");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, (e.toString()),"ERROR: Connection to nPort Failed", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
System.exit(0);
} // end constructor ClientListener
** multi client connection server
ClientWorker(Socket aSocket,LinkedList aQueue, ClientListener aClientListener, boolean diagnostics){
queue = aQueue;
addToQueue(this);
client = aSocket;
clientRef = aClientListener;
aDiagnostic = diagnostics;
} // end constructor ClientWorker
* run method is the main loop of the server program
* in change of handle new client connection as well
* as handle all messages and errors.
public void run(){
boolean alive = true;
String aSubString = "";
in = null;
out = null;
loginName = "";
loggedIn = false;
while (alive && client.isConnected()&& clientRef.hostSocket.isConnected()){
try{
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(client.getInputStream()));
out = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(client.getOutputStream()));
if(aDiagnostic){
out.println("WELCOME to diagnostics");
broadCastDia("Connect : diagnostics "+client.getInetAddress().toString());
out.flush();
else {
out.println("WELCOME to Troy's Server");
broadCastDia("Connect : client "+client.getInetAddress().toString());
     out.flush();
String line;
while(((line = in.readLine())!= null)){
StringTokenizer aStringToken = new StringTokenizer(line, " ");
if(!aDiagnostic){
broadCastDia(line);
clientRef.sendMessage(line); // send mesage out to netExpress
out.println(line);
out.flush();
else{
if(line.equals("GETIPS"))
getIPs();
else{
clientRef.sendMessage(line); // send mesage out to netExpress
out.println(line);
out.flush();
} // end while
catch(Exception e){
// System.out.println("ERROR:Client Connection reset");
                         JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, (e.toString()),"ERROR:Client Connection reset", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
try{
if(aDiagnostic){
broadCastDia("Disconnect : diagnostics "+client.getInetAddress().toString());
out.flush();
else {
broadCastDia("Disconnect : client "+client.getInetAddress().toString());
     out.flush();
// close the buffers and connection;
in.close();
out.close();
client.close();
// System.out.println("out");
// remove from list
removeThreadQueue(this);
alive = false;
catch(Exception e){
// System.out.println("ERROR: Client Connection reset failure");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, (e.toString()),"ERROR: Client Connection reset failure", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
}// end while
} // end method run
* method run - Generates io stream for communicating with the server and
* starts the client gui. Run also parses the input commands from the server.
public void run(){
boolean alive = true;
try{
// begin to life the gui
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ya i know..
2.1 is a jdk1.4 source
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