Thanks for the suggestion! Horror upon horrors, it works fine from the command prompt>java -jar program.jar . But I don't want the users to have to go through that mess.
. I ended up going into...

Well, the above paths (C:...DMS-DNMS/jar and D:...DMS-DNMS/jar) are the two places where the jar is located (on Cimarron, that is. On Alpha and Beta, I don't get a directory listing because I don't...

Hello DaniWeb,
. I was hoping someone could help me with a portability issue.
. I've created a jar in JBuilder Foundation 2005. Said jar executes successfully on computers Alpha and Beta, but...

Okay... I've made another project in JBuilder. All it does is connect to the database and add a line. And it works.

Oddly, now both projects have "*mysql-connecter-*" in the classpath, but not...

Weirdness abounds. It seems to be getting a driver, a mysql one even, I just have no idea how or where it's coming from since the mysql-connector.jar isn't listed in the classpath. Except it should...

Well, bother. I was hopeful, since i was taking a user-inputted database and the user generally didn't add a "/" to the end of the host, but even after explicitly connecting to localhost:...

More fidgeting; after changing the connection's catch statement to:
catch (SQLException ex) {
// handle any errors
System.out.println("SQLException: " + ex.getMessage());
...

Okay, trying yours but adding error catching and helpful printlns:
public int DBtest2(String hst){
int worked = 1;
try{Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();}
catch(Exception...

Okay, a rundown:
Running in JBuilder 2005
Using the following: try {
java.sql.Driver mySQLDriver = (Driver) Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
...

All right... I just downloaded MySQL 5, and the project's running on MySQL 4.0.14, and they both claim to be able to use driver 3.51. Unfortunately, after installing the 3.51 driver, the program is...

Hello Wizard!
This fellow wrote a two-step connection process; the first to just fire the Class.forName with the assumption that the driver was good, and then the next to see whether the...

Using the following:
protected void testDriver ( ) {
String drivers = "nada";
try {
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
} catch (...

It's actually undecorated right now; I'm trying to copy the same look and feel as a JWindow, so no borders or buttons or whatnot.

As a JFrame or JWindow? Either way, I just ran it in Windows XP. UI = user interface?

I don't know whether anyone's still reading this, but I ended up changing the JWindow to an undecorated JFrame, which fixed the focus problem and hence the keylistener. It's behaving as expected...

Okay, I figured out the Base isn't getting the focus in the first place. I tried the code

this.show();
if(this.isDisplayable()) System.out.println("Displayable");
if(this.isVisible())...

In deed. There's a number of things I'd do differently if I were to make it myself, and considering how difficult some of it is to format, I'm considering remaking it anyway. Well obviously, if...

Hello, DaniWeb,
I'm trying to get better at troubleshooting, so I'd like to see what process other people go through.
I have three communication devices that aren't working in my program... a...

Well, I was hoping to avoid that; there's quite a lot of it...
Apologies in advance for the lack of commentary and the level of twistiness. I didn't write any of it to start off with, and am still...

Or rather, my program does. I'm supposedly revising someone else's working code, but the stuff I compile doesn't do quite the same thing the packaged version they did... not sure whether it's a...