Hello,

I wonder if anyone has had trouble with the mxj object.. I've just built a java external invoking it with mxj that 1. calls an executable. 2. reads its output and prints it.

I've implemented the above logic in the bang method:

public void bang() { try {

// launch EXE and grab stdin/stdout and stderr Process process = Runtime.getRuntime ().exec ("F:/test.exe");

InputStream is = process.getInputStream(); InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr); String line=null; while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) { System.out.println(line); } } catch (Exception err) { err.printStackTrace(); } }

When i send a bang to that external, the patch launches the test.exe process but subsequently freezes (windows vista, maxforlive 5.1.7) and prints the output when I kill the process with process explorer.

I tried to execute the same code in a java program and there it run successfully. Does anyone know of issues with the mentioned readline methods in max/msp? Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

warm regards