[neilf79]

Does anybody know if there is any way I can look at the contents of System.err on a Nokia phone (or indeed System.out, since, looking at the implmenentation they are the same)? I'm getting a NullPointerException that I can't reproduce on the emulator and would very much like its stack trace.

Thanks.

Neil.

P.S. Does anyone else find the absence of a Throwable.printStackTrace(PrintStream) method VERY annoying?! It's not like it saves any space by not having it...

[alex_crowther]

for emulators you can:

emulator <options> | cat

This will make the emulator output visible in the console.

Unless you are using djgpp or cygwin you probably won't have cat.exe so find a copy on the internet, or just compile the following C cat program

#include <stdio.h>

/* compile with: gcc cat.c -s -O2 -o cat.exe */

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	FILE *stream;
	int c;

	if (argc == 1)
		stream = stdin;
	else
		stream = fopen(argv[1], "r");

	if (!stream)
		return(-1);

	while( (c=fgetc(stream)) != -1)
		fputc(c, stdout);

	if (argc > 1)
		fclose(stream);

	return(0);
}

If you want to redirect stdout/stderr on a phone, your
out of luck, I don't think it can be done.

Alex

[markdb]

" Does anyone else find the absence of a Throwable.printStackTrace(PrintStream) method VERY annoying?! "

Truly unbelievable, along with the lack of ways of trapping an OutputStream's output after it's been created,
and the fact that System.err and System.out are final.

I'm tempted to write a test app. to see if all manufacturer's KVMs *do* make .err and .out final...