Problem With Genre

I have been using an 80gb Ipod Classic with software version 1.3.
I have Audiobooks in ITunes and every book has a Genre of Audiobook.
On my Ipod I enter Music - Genre - Audiobook and each author is listed for me to select one of his books.
I have just upgraded to a 120gb Ipod Classic with software version 2.0
I have synchronised everything under ITunes to my new Ipod but under Music - Genre - Audiobook does not appear!
I appreciate that Audiobook has it's own menu item under Music but when accessing there all items are listed by book whereas when I access on my old Ipod via Music - Genre - Audiobook the items are listed by author which is how I want to access my books.

Audiobooks DO appear under Music but that is not my problem
It may be an audiobook, but is it assigned as an audiobook in iTunes? Does it show up in Audiobooks in iTenes and on the iPod?
To set it as an audiobook, select one, right click - get info. Click the Options tab and tick Audiobook.
My point is that setting the Genre to Auduobook has nothing to do with it showing up under Audiobooks.
but on my new Ipod the Audiobook genre is not coming up under Genre.
I'll have a look at that tonight.

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Query 1
dbxml> query 'for $a in collection("container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml")/article w
here every $b in $a/body/abstract/p satisfies contains($b, "hockey") return $a
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Query - Starting query execution
Query - container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml - U : [405] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1
2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ...
Query - Finished query execution, time taken = 168.522ms
102 objects returned for eager expression 'for $a in collection("container_db_xb
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ains($b, "hockey") return $a/prolog/title'
dbxml> queryPlan 'for $a in collection("container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml")/articl
e
where every $b in $a/body/abstract/p satisfies contains($b, "hockey")
return $a/prolog/title'
<XQuery>
<FLWOR>
<ForBinding name="a">
<Navigation>
<QueryPlanFunction result="collection" container="container_db_xbench_25
0Mb.dbxml">
<OQPlan>U</OQPlan>
</QueryPlanFunction>
<Step axis="child" name="article" nodeType="element"/>
</Navigation>
<Where>
<EveryFLWOR>
<ForBinding name="b">
<Navigation>
<Variable name="a"/>
<Step axis="child" name="body" nodeType="element"/>
<Step axis="child" name="abstract" nodeType="element"/>
<Step axis="child" name="p" nodeType="element"/>
</Navigation>
</ForBinding>
<Navigation>
<Variable name="b"/>
<DbXmlContains>
<Sequence>
<AnyAtomicTypeConstructor value="hockey" typeuri="http://www.w3.
org/2001/XMLSchema" typename="string"/>
</Sequence>
</DbXmlContains>
</Navigation>
</EveryFLWOR>
</Where>
</ForBinding>
<Navigation>
<Variable name="a"/>
<Step axis="child" name="prolog" nodeType="element"/>
<Step axis="child" name="title" nodeType="element">
<OQPlan>P(node-element-equality-string,prefix,title)</OQPlan>
</Step>
</Navigation>
</FLWOR>
</XQuery>
dbxml>
dbxml> query 'for $a in collection("container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml")/article w
here every $b in $a/body/abstract/p satisfies contains($b, "hockey") return $a
/prolog/title'
Query - Starting query execution
Query - container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml - U : [405] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1
2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ...
Query - container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml - P(title) : [405] 2(0x04020204) 3(
0x04020204) 4(0x04020204) 5(0x04020204) 6(0x04020204) 7(0x04020204) 8(0x04020204
) 9(0x04020204) 10(0x04020204) 11(0x04020204) ...
Query - Finished query execution, time taken = 710.093ms
102 objects returned for eager expression 'for $a in collection("container_db_xb
ench_250Mb.dbxml")/article where every $b in $a/body/abstract/p satisfies cont
ains($b, "hockey") return $a/prolog/title'
Query 2
dbxml> query 'for $a in collection("container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml")/article/pr
olog order by $a/dateline/country return <Output> {$a/title} {$a/dateline/
country} </Output>'
Query - Starting query execution
Query - container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml - U : [405] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1
2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ...
Query - Finished query execution, time taken = 248.939ms
405 objects returned for eager expression 'for $a in collection("container_db_xb
ench_250Mb.dbxml")/article/prolog order by $a/dateline/country return <Outpu
t> {$a/title} {$a/dateline/country} </Output>'
dbxml> queryPlan 'for $a in collection("container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml")/articl
e/prolog order by $a/dateline/country return <Output> {$a/title} {$a/datel
ine/country} </Output>'
<XQuery>
<FLWOR>
<ForBinding name="a">
<Navigation>
<QueryPlanFunction result="collection" container="container_db_xbench_25
0Mb.dbxml">
<OQPlan>U</OQPlan>
</QueryPlanFunction>
<Step axis="child" name="article" nodeType="element"/>
<Step axis="child" name="prolog" nodeType="element"/>
</Navigation>
</ForBinding>
<Sort>
<Specification modifier="ascending|empty_least">
<Navigation>
<Variable name="a"/>
<Step axis="child" name="dateline" nodeType="element"/>
<Step axis="child" name="country" nodeType="element">
<OQPlan>P(node-element-equality-string,prefix,country)</OQPlan>
</Step>
</Navigation>
</Specification>
</Sort>
<DOMConstructor type="element">
<Name>
<Sequence>
<AnyAtomicTypeConstructor value="Output" typeuri="http://www.w3.org/20
01/XMLSchema" typename="string"/>
</Sequence>
</Name>
<Children>
<Navigation>
<Variable name="a"/>
<Step axis="child" name="title" nodeType="element"/>
</Navigation>
<Navigation>
<Variable name="a"/>
<Step axis="child" name="dateline" nodeType="element"/>
<Step axis="child" name="country" nodeType="element">
<OQPlan>P(node-element-equality-string,prefix,country)</OQPlan>
</Step>
</Navigation>
</Children>
</DOMConstructor>
</FLWOR>
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dbxml>
Query - container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml - P(country) : NONE
Query - container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml - P(country) : NONE
Query - Finished query execution, time taken = 1573.17ms
405 objects returned for eager expression 'for $a in collection("container_db_xb
ench_250Mb.dbxml")/article/prolog order by $a/dateline/country return <Outpu
t> {$a/title} {$a/dateline/country} </Output>'
Query 3
dbxml> query 'for $a in collection("container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml")/article/pr
olog where empty ($a/genre) return <NoGenre> {$a/title} </N
oGenre>'
Query - Starting query execution
Query - container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml - U : [405] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1
2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ...
Query - Finished query execution, time taken = 207.782ms
170 objects returned for eager expression 'for $a in collection("container_db_xb
ench_250Mb.dbxml")/article/prolog where empty ($a/genre) return <NoGenre>
{$a/title} </NoGenre>'
dbxml> queryPlan 'for $a in collection("container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml")/articl
e/prolog where empty ($a/genre) return <NoGenre> {$a/title}
</NoGenre>'
<XQuery>
<FLWOR>
<ForBinding name="a">
<Navigation>
<QueryPlanFunction result="collection" container="container_db_xbench_25
0Mb.dbxml">
<OQPlan>U</OQPlan>
</QueryPlanFunction>
<Step axis="child" name="article" nodeType="element"/>
<Step axis="child" name="prolog" nodeType="element"/>
</Navigation>
<Where>
<Function name="{http://www.w3.org/2005/04/xpath-functions}:empty">
<Navigation>
<Variable name="a"/>
<Step axis="child" name="genre" nodeType="element">
<OQPlan>P(node-element-presence-none,=,genre)</OQPlan>
</Step>
</Navigation>
</Function>
</Where>
</ForBinding>
<DOMConstructor type="element">
<Name>
<Sequence>
<AnyAtomicTypeConstructor value="NoGenre" typeuri="http://www.w3.org/2
001/XMLSchema" typename="string"/>
</Sequence>
</Name>
<Children>
<Navigation>
<Variable name="a"/>
<Step axis="child" name="title" nodeType="element"/>
</Navigation>
</Children>
</DOMConstructor>
</FLWOR>
</XQuery>
dbxml>
0x0402025E) 9(0x040202D0) 10(0x0402023F) 11(0x0402020F) 14(0x0402020F) 15(0x0402
0253) 17(0x0402025E) 20(0x040202EE) 23(0x040202C0) ...
Query - container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml - P(genre) : [235] 4(0x0402024G) 5(
0x0402025E) 9(0x040202D0) 10(0x0402023F) 11(0x0402020F) 14(0x0402020F) 15(0x0402
0253) 17(0x0402025E) 20(0x040202EE) 23(0x040202C0) ...
Query - Finished query execution, time taken = 2362.08ms
170 objects returned for eager expression 'for $a in collection("container_db_xb
ench_250Mb.dbxml")/article/prolog where empty ($a/genre) return <NoGenre>
{$a/title} </NoGenre>'
Query 4
dbxml> query 'for $a in collection("container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml")/article/pr
olog/authors/author where empty($a/contact/text()) return <NoContact> {
$a/name} </NoContact>'
Query - Starting query execution
Query - container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml - U : [405] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1
2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ...
Query - Finished query execution, time taken = 680.503ms
212 objects returned for eager expression 'for $a in collection("container_db_xb
ench_250Mb.dbxml")/article/prolog/authors/author where empty($a/contact/text())
return <NoContact> {$a/name} </NoContact>'
dbxml> queryPlan 'for $a in collection("container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml")/articl
e/prolog/authors/author where empty($a/contact/text()) return <NoContact>
{$a/name} </NoContact>'
<XQuery>
<FLWOR>
<ForBinding name="a">
<Navigation>
<QueryPlanFunction result="collection" container="container_db_xbench_25
0Mb.dbxml">
<OQPlan>U</OQPlan>
</QueryPlanFunction>
<Step axis="child" name="article" nodeType="element"/>
<Step axis="child" name="prolog" nodeType="element"/>
<Step axis="child" name="authors" nodeType="element"/>
<Step axis="child" name="author" nodeType="element"/>
</Navigation>
<Where>
<Function name="{http://www.w3.org/2005/04/xpath-functions}:empty">
<Navigation>
<Variable name="a"/>
<Step axis="child" name="contact" nodeType="element">
<OQPlan>P(node-element-presence-none,=,contact)</OQPlan>
</Step>
<Step axis="child">
<ItemType testType="text"/>
</Step>
</Navigation>
</Function>
</Where>
</ForBinding>
<DOMConstructor type="element">
<Name>
<Sequence>
<AnyAtomicTypeConstructor value="NoContact" typeuri="http://www.w3.org
/2001/XMLSchema" typename="string"/>
</Sequence>
</Name>
<Children>
<Navigation>
<Variable name="a"/>
<Step axis="child" name="name" nodeType="element">
<OQPlan>P(node-element-equality-string,prefix,name)</OQPlan>
</Step>
</Navigation>
</Children>
</DOMConstructor>
</FLWOR>
</XQuery>
2(0x0402020E) 2(0x04020212) 2(0x04020216) 2(0x0402021B) 2(0x0402021F) 2(0x04020
223) 2(0x04020227) 2(0x0402022C) 2(0x0402022G) ...
Query - Finished query execution, time taken = 48724.8ms
212 objects returned for eager expression 'for $a in collection("container_db_xb
ench_250Mb.dbxml")/article/prolog/authors/author where empty($a/contact/text())
return <NoContact> {$a/name} </NoContact>'
Query 5
dbxml> query 'for $a in collection("container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml")/article w
here contains ($a//p, "the hockey") return <Output> {$a/prolog/ti
tle} {$a/body/abstract} </Output>'
Query - Starting query execution
Query - container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml - U : [405] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1
2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ...
Query - Finished query execution, time taken = 3605.86ms
383 objects returned for eager expression 'for $a in collection("container_db_xb
ench_250Mb.dbxml")/article where contains ($a//p, "the hockey") return <O
utput> {$a/prolog/title} {$a/body/abstract} </Output>'
dbxml> queryPlan 'for $a in collection("container_db_xbench_250Mb.dbxml")/articl
e where contains ($a//p, "the hockey") return <Output> {$a/prolo
g/title} {$a/body/abstract} </Output>'
<XQuery>
<FLWOR>
<ForBinding name="a">
<Navigation>
<QueryPlanFunction result="collection" container="container_db_xbench_25
0Mb.dbxml">
<OQPlan>U</OQPlan>
</QueryPlanFunction>
<Step axis="child" name="article" nodeType="element"/>
<DbXmlFilter>
<Navigation>
<Step axis="descendant" name="p" nodeType="element"/>
<DbXmlContains>
<Sequence>
<AnyAtomicTypeConstructor value="the hockey" typeuri="http://www
.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" typename="string"/>
</Sequence>
</DbXmlContains>
</Navigation>
</DbXmlFilter>
</Navigation>
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<DOMConstructor type="element">
<Name>
<Sequence>
<AnyAtomicTypeConstructor value="Output" typeuri="http://www.w3.org/20
01/XMLSchema" typename="string"/>
</Sequence>
</Name>
<Children>
<Navigation>
<Variable name="a"/>
<Step axis="child" name="prolog" nodeType="element"/>
<Step axis="child" name="title" nodeType="element">
<OQPlan>P(node-element-equality-string,prefix,title)</OQPlan>
</Step>
</Navigation>
<Navigation>
<Variable name="a"/>
<Step axis="child" name="body" nodeType="element"/>
<Step axis="child" name="abstract" nodeType="element"/>
</Navigation>
</Children>
</DOMConstructor>
</FLWOR>
</XQuery>
dbxml>
time taken = 6038.12ms

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Simon, this is actually a common problem with the touch. Mine did it about a year after purchase, so I was safe to open it up and fix it. It is actually a really simple fix and is due to a loose connector. I know alot of other people on nomadness.net were having this problem, so I posted a solution here. Hope this helps!
http://www.nomadness.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=42838

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I recently bought a new 160 Gb ipod Classic and the first one that came seemed to sync all my music but as soon as I removed the cable I got an Apple screen and an unresponsive ipod. Eventually Apple swapped it for a second ipod. I found it difficult to get this one to work properly although the hard disk on this one hadn't failed like the first one.
I did have to restore the new ipod at least twice and after the second time I decided not to sync all my music at once as before but selected a few genres to start with and it worked fine so I gradually selected more and more genres each time I synced it until I had all my music on the ipod. So all was fine.
After using the ipod for a couple of weeks or so with this I decided to try and sync the ipod by selecting All the music rather than by genre. As all the music was already on the ipod this didn't take very long to sync. As I normally play the music on random shuffle I selected shuffle and what happened next I've never seen before but the track that was about to be played appeared on the screen but didn't start playing. As I pressed the play button the track wouldn't play but the ipod jumped to the start of the next track and just kept doing that without playing anything.
I then stopped this and decided to sync the ipod as before by selecting all the genres. When this was done the ipod then played normally as before. While this is fine I'd like to be able to sync my ipod by selecting all the music as I've been doing for years with my old ipod Classic 80 Gb. Is there anyone who can explain what might be causing this problem to occur?

Ok here goes, after 6 weeks of restoring, resetting, putting device into manual scan, manually resetting, downloading itunes older versions, newer versions and all around fighting my ipod; I have had the same results. When restoring through itunes the ipod is "still named", now one would think when doing a full system restore on the ipod via itunes it would do a full restore and the name would be no longer existent, so not the case. I have gotten multiple error messages, this is the most prevalent, "The "ipod name" cannot be synced. A duplicate file name was specified", another is in order for this ipod to work you must restore with itunes. I am thinking that there is problem with the new software, you see yesterday I set up a computer that has XP and itunes 7, the sync went without a hitch, no freezes, no long pauses, no problems. Then I made the mistake of hitting the button to update itunes "newer version", rediculous mistake. All of the problems are as pevalent as before, ipod will not sync, manually I can add movies and music but no more than 264 songs will add. My question is, why did Apple create this very nice, durable large player if they do not have the capability to serve they customers with the correct software?

Problems with itunes library and order of tracks

Hello,
I downloaded the new update, and I'm having a problem with my library when accessed from the browser. Before itunes 7, my tracks were in order that they appeared on the album, now they are in alphabetical order. Is there a way to make it go back the way it was before the update--in order by track number?
thanks.
chris

I was having the same problem and I knew there had to be an easy answer. I knew it for sure when I saw your topic unanswered. Just right click, or control click on the bar where it says name, album, genre, etc. and select "track number," this will give you the option to put them in their original order.
You can also access this under "view options" in the view pull down menu.
emac, mini, QS G4, ibook, etc. Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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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();
}

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
// aGuiClient = new ClientGui(hostName.getHostName(), hostPort, loginName, this);
// aGuiClient.show();
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(hostSocket.getInputStream()));
out = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(hostSocket.getOutputStream()));
while (alive && hostSocket.isConnected()){
String line;
while(((line = in.readLine())!= null)){
System.out.println(line);
broadCast(line);
} // end while
} // end while
catch(Exception e){
//     System.out.println("ERRORa Connection to host reset");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, (e.toString()),"ERROR: Connection to nPort reset", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
try{
hostSocket.close();
     }catch(Exception a){
     JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, (a.toString()),"ERROR: Exception", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
alive = false;
System.exit(1);
} // end method run

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Hi everybody!
I've a problem with taking snapshot.
I would like to display a loading screen after it take snapshot ( sometimes i
have to wait few seconds after i took snapshot. Propably photo is being taken in time where i have to wait).
I was trying to use threads but i didn't succeed.
I made this code:
display.setCurrent(perform);
        new Thread(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                while((!performing.isShown()) && (backgroundCamera.isShown())){
                    Thread.yield();
                notifyAll();
        }).start();
        new Thread(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                try {
                    this.wait();
                } catch(Exception e) {
                    exceptionHandler(e);
                photo = camera.snapshot();
                display.setCurrent(displayPhoto);
        }).start();This code is sometimes showing performing screen but sometimes no.
I don't know why. In my opinion performing.isShown() method isn't working correctly.
Does anyone have some idea how to use threads here?

Hi,
I've finally managed to work this fine.
The code:
       Object o = new Object();
       display.setCurrent(perform);
        new Thread(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                while(!performing.isShown()){
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        }).start();
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                    synchronized(o) {
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