On 29 Feb., 18:32, Knute Johnson <nos...@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
wrote:

I tried your solution, but there's still no flush on printing just a
dot without println...

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();
       }
   }
}

When I let the program run for a few seconds nothing gets printed
while receiving no data (timeout), when I close the program and return
to the shell, all missing dots are printed all at once. But this is
not what I wanted. I want to print just a dot without newline for each
second the socket doesn't receive data.

Im out of ideas *shrug*... sometimes the easiest things to do turn out
to be the most pain in the...

Karsten

I'm pretty sure that his problem is in the code we are not seeing.