Re: System.out PrintWriter print() and flush() not flushing?

From:
Karsten Wutzke <kwutzke@web.de>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:42:10 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<7c5b7fa5-e599-496c-b056-ec5ca98d75e0@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On 5 Mrz., 09:13, Roedy Green <see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid>
wrote:

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:26:51 -0800 (PST), Karsten Wutzke
<kwut...@web.de> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

Does anyone know how to print only a dot without a newline? How?


just use the print() and flush() or autoflush on the open.

Seehttp://mindprod.com/applet/fileio.html
for details.
--

Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossaryhttp://mindprod.com


Just recognized I completely messed up code formatting:
while ( sck.isConnected() && !sck.isClosed() )
{
    boolean doNewline = false;

    try
    {
        //times out according to socket (here one sec)
        String strMessage = br.readLine();

        if ( strMessage != null )
        {
            if ( doNewline )
            {
                System.out.println();
            }

            System.out.println(" IN <<< '" + strMessage + "'");

            Message msg = mf.createIncomingMessage(strMessage);

            processIncomingMessage(msg);

            doNewline = false;
        }

        Thread.sleep(msec);

    }
    catch ( SocketTimeoutException ste )
    {
        //doesn't flush
        System.out.print(".");
        System.out.flush();
        doNewline = true;
    }
    catch ( Exception e )
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Again, this lets the loop check the input stream every X msec, if the
string is non null, print what came in, otherwise br.readLine will
block, because of the timeout of Y msec a SocketTimeoutException is
thrown, print a simple dot to the console.

As I said, nothing gets printed until another newline or program end.

Karsten

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