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 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 not finding this in the archives. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
>
> I'll guess that you're thinking of the xvfb (virtual frame buffer)
> X11 server which allows apps which manipulate fonts and/or images without
> using a physical display device. It comes up on headless web servers
> which want to generate dynamic gifs (hit counters) or whatever.
> The image/font manipulation stuff won't load without an X11 display, so
> xvfb is used to provide those resources without using an actual device.
>
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