OFF TOPIC: (WAS "Faking out an app that requires a GUI")

2001-09-13 Thread Jim Caley
Just wanted to let you know that xvfb did fix this guy's problem. Here's an extract from his reply to me: "Thanks for the feedback. At least somebody is of help. [SNIP COMPLAINTS ABOUT LACK OF HELP FROM THE VENDOR :)] Anyway, enough whining. The Xvfb solution works great. I managed to snag

Re: Faking out an app that requires a GUI

2001-09-13 Thread Jim Caley
Ahhh... Thanks, guys. Yes, it was xvfb that I was thinking of. I posted this on behalf of a guy from a CAD users' mailing list who was having a problem, and from what I had heard of xvfb on this list, it sounded like that might help him out. His app isn't actually Java, but it sounds like that'

Re: Faking out an app that requires a GUI

2001-09-12 Thread Nathan Meyers
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:25:00PM -0700, ed phillips wrote: > Are you referring, Jim, to an Expect like feature set for Java. > > Is there such a set of classes? Perl has an Expect module. Hmmm Joi's recommendation for xvfb is the right one. The Linux/Unix AWT always expects an X server even i

Re: Faking out an app that requires a GUI

2001-09-12 Thread ed phillips
Are you referring, Jim, to an Expect like feature set for Java. Is there such a set of classes? Perl has an Expect module. Hmmm Ed Joi Ellis wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Jim Caley wrote: > > > It seems like a year or two ago I saw some sort of utility mentioned on this > > mailing list t

Re: Faking out an app that requires a GUI

2001-09-12 Thread Joi Ellis
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Jim Caley wrote: > It seems like a year or two ago I saw some sort of utility mentioned on this > mailing list that could be used to "fake out" a text-based app that still needed > to have a GUI display available. (Was it that some of the Swing classes wanted > the graphical

Faking out an app that requires a GUI

2001-09-12 Thread Jim Caley
It seems like a year or two ago I saw some sort of utility mentioned on this mailing list that could be used to "fake out" a text-based app that still needed to have a GUI display available. (Was it that some of the Swing classes wanted the graphical display or something? I can't remember.) I'm