E Jen

In a program that I am making I have to select a small text box on an IM service and input chat automatically. I know that robot can do this, by actually moving the mouse, clicking, than typing it. But is there any way that I can do this using something other than robot, maybe something that won't actually move the mouse?

Sorry, I see what I did. Thanks anyway.

I am getting a couple of errors with the following code:

try { for (String line = getLine(in); line != null; line = getLine(in)){line = line.substring(11);int location = line.indexOf("======"); if (location >= 0) line = line.substring(location + 6); public void processLine(String line2) { location = line.indexOf("lol"); if(location > 0); System.out.println("*laughs*");}

The errors are:

void is an invalid type for the variable processLine
Syntax error on token "(", ; expected
Syntax error on token ")", ; expected

Can anybody please help me try to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
OK, this is weird. I see you have used code tags - good, thank you very much. And yet your code still seems to have almost no indentation. What's up? Do you not find it useful to indent your code to make it readable? I find it difficult to motivate myself to bother reading something if the author hasn't put at least a little effort into making it readable. Note that you can edit your post using the little icon at the top of the post. Thanks.

Sorry about that. Normally it is indented when I right it, somehow I messed that up. And thank you for all of your replies.

I have some code written to read a chatlog file, one that you may find from an IM system. Most of the lines that are read look like this:

[10:34:46] MESSAGE HERE

How would I get it to drop the time stamp? The code I have currently written is:

import java.io.*; public class ChatRead implements Runnable { String filename; ChatRead(String name) { filename = name; } public void run () { File f = new File (filename); BufferedReader in = null; long prevmod = 0; long prevlen = 0; try { in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename)); prevmod = f.lastModified(); prevlen = f.length(); in.skip(prevlen); // start at the end } catch (Exception ignore) { in = null; } while (true) { if (in == null) { try { in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename)); prevmod = 0; prevlen = 0; } catch (java.io.FileNotFoundException e) { // file isn't there. wait a sec and try again in = null; try { Thread.sleep (1000); } catch (java.lang.InterruptedException ignore) { } continue; } } long mod = f.lastModified(); long len = f.length(); if (mod != prevmod || len != prevlen) { if(len < prevlen) { try { in.close(); } catch (Exception ignore) {} in = null; continue; } // remember new location prevmod = mod; prevlen = len; try { for (String line = getLine(in); line != null; line = getLine(in)) System.out.println(line); } catch (java.io.IOException ignore) { try { in.close(); } catch (Exception ignore2) {} in = null; } if (!f.canRead()) { try { in.close(); } catch (Exception ignore) {} in = null; } } else { try { Thread.sleep (1000); } catch (java.lang.InterruptedException ignore) { } } } } public String getLine(BufferedReader in) throws java.io.IOException { StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(80); int c; char ch; in.mark(1024); while (true) { c = in.read(); if (c < 0) { try { in.reset(); return null; } catch (Exception ignore) { return sb.toString(); } } ch = (char)c; if (ch == '\r') { in.mark(3); c = (char)in.read(); if (c < 0) { try { in.reset(); return null; } catch (Exception ignore) { return sb.toString(); } } ch = (char)c; // yup. return the line if (ch == '\n') return sb.toString(); in.reset(); return sb.toString(); } if (ch == '\n') return sb.toString(); sb.append(ch); } } public static void main (String[] args) { ChatRead chatRead = new ChatRead("loghere"); Thread thread = new Thread(chatRead); thread.start(); try { thread.join(); } catch (java.lang.InterruptedException ignore) { } } }
[ October 22, 2006: Message edited by: E Jen ]