KGS ignoring -open parameter?

[fwiffo]

Lately it seems like cgoban is ignoring the -open command line parameter, which is keeping it from working as a Firefox helper. Specifically the command line...

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javaws -open foo.sgf http://files.gokgs.com/javaBin/cgoban.jnlp

... no longer opens foo.sgf; it just opens cgoban.

Anybody else seeing this?

[wms]

Are you sure the syntax is right? I thought it was just "javaws foo.jnlp <file to open>", but I could be wrong.

[xed_over]

that should be the correct syntax. I use it all the time (via a Mac app that Hikaru79 wrote):
http://www.godiscussions.com/forum/show ... php?t=4893

Humm.. I guess its been a while since I've actually tried to open an sgf directly

from the commandline, I get a Null Pointer Exception

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$ javaws -Xnosplash -open game.sgf http://files.gokgs.com/javaBin/cgoban.jnlp
$ Exception in thread "javawsApplicationMain" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:441)
        at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:591)
        at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:464)
        at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.execProgram(Launcher.java:824)
        at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleApplicationDesc(Launcher.java:499)
        at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleLaunchFile(Launcher.java:219)
        at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:166)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)

[xed_over]

could it be that the <application-desc/> tag is missing the main-class name?

from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/gui ... yntax.html

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    Arguments can be specified to the application by including one or more nested argument elements. For example:

      <application-desc main-class="Main">
        <argument>arg1</argument>
        <argument>arg2</argument>
      </application-desc>

because http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/gui ... avaws.html says this about the -open command-line option to Java Web Start

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-open <arguments>

    If specified, replaces the arguments in the jnlp file with -open <arguments>.

* this is all just guessing on my part

[fwiffo]

Weird, it works on one computer, but not the other... Hey, wait a minute... Turns out I've got stupid openjdk! Lucid Lynx secretly replaced my coffee with decaffeinated Folgers Crystals, wondering if I'd notice. Oh, I noticed, b!%^#&s!