[Rxtx] Serial.addEventListener bug?

[Trent Jarvi]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Adrian Parker wrote:

> I'm using an old version of RXTX.  Its 1.4-8 (packaged by Sun for use on
> OpenServer 5.0.7).  Its what Sun packages.
>
> I have noticed that SerialPort.notifyOnDataAvailable(boolean) throws an
> exception.  It seems to throw the exception if no listener was previously
> declared (although I've not had chance to verify).
>
> Is this desireable behaviour?  Sun's original API doesn't mention anything
> about an exception on this function,
> http://java.sun.com/products/javacomm/reference/api/javax/comm/SerialPort.html#notifyOnDataAvailable(boolean)
>
> Of course this is an old version of RXTX, so perhaps this has been changed.
>
>
>

What exception was thrown?  You can replace 1.4-8 with 2.0 for testing 
purposes.  They are the same package.

I doubt Sun shipped or packaged that.  I think Caldera/SCOx/... did at one 
point.  There may still be updates on their pages.  I recall them sending 
patches here which are in current rxtx.

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Trent Jarvi
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