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Richard Dallaway

More options 9 Dec 2008, 12:40

From: Richard Dallaway <rich...@dallaway.com>

Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:40:23 +0000

Local: Tues 9 Dec 2008 12:40

Subject: Re: [sloppy-discuss] Sloppy non-GUI version

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On 6 Dec 2008, at 11:32, betab...@gmail.com wrote:

> There is a non-gui version mentioned here: http://code.google.com/p/sloppy/wiki/DevelopersStartHere

Yup, that's still in there. I didn't think it'd be ever used again,
but yes :-)

> I'd like to run sloppy via a ant action from within Flex Builder (aka
> Eclipse). So this non-gui version would do great (i hope), but I'm not
> quite sure how to set it up. I've checked out from SVN hoping to find
> the mentioned sloppy.jar in there. But I guess, I have to build it
> myself...

The latest JAR file is available here:

http://dallaway.com/sloppy/sloppy.jar

On the Mac if you download that file you can start Sloppy like this
from Terminal:

$ cd ~/Downloads (or wherever sloppy.jar lives)
$ java -cp /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5/
Home/lib/javaws.jar:sloppy.jar com.dallaway.sloppy.Sloppy -gui -site http://google.co.uk

Which will output something like:

# Unable to load saved settings: uninitialized
# Starting Sloppy/1.1.118 (en_US)
# Sloppy comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and
you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. For
details see <a href='http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/license.txt'>the
license</a>
# Listening Port=7569 Destination=http://google.co.uk Bytes per
second=3225

...and you're set.

To stop it, you have to CTRL-C, and that might be the hardness part to
deal with when running it from inside Ant. It wouldn't be hard to
write an Ant task to start Sloppy, but I'm not sure how to stop it
from Ant. That'd need some thought.

I've just noticed that there's no command line option for setting the
simulation speed (bandwidth). Not for any reason, other than I never
did it. You can however specify a properties file:

E.g., create mysettings.properties containing:

sloppy.bytesPerSecond=32250
# oh no, there's a spelling mistake in the code :-( ...
sloppy.desintationURL=http://google.co.uk

Then start sloppy with the name of the file:

java -cp /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5/Home/
lib/javaws.jar:sloppy.jar com.dallawasloppy.Sloppy -gui
mysettings.properties

Not sure how much that helps you...

> Here's where I'm stuck already: I'm a really dummie when it
> comes to build a jar file (so now you probably say, I shouldn't deal
> with source code if I don't even know how to build sth out of it ;)

If you have the source checked out, you can build it with this command:

$ cd sloppy
$ ant -f etc/build.xml compile jar

You may have to change some of the properties (file paths) set up in
etc/build.xml

> Still, I was hoping somebody can point me in the right direction (or
> tell me where I can find this non-gui version).

> I'm on Mac OS X 10.5.5 with Developer Tools (Apple) and Eclipse
> installed.

> Oh, and thanks for this great utility Richard :)

You're welcome. Let us know how you're getting on, or if you need
some changes to support what you're trying to do.

Richard

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