Getting hardware and software to play nice with each other can be tricky. You first need to isolate the source of your problem. Here are some utility programs that may help.

Test Java Serial communication

If you are using serial (COM port) input, a frequent source of trouble is that the serial port libraries for Java are not installed correctly.

We need a small test program that opens a serial port with given parameters and just dumps the data to the screen.

Test OSC input/output

If you want to use OSC messages over UDP as your input or output format, this pd file will help:

exemplar-osc-test.pd

Test XML output to Flash

flash-test.zip

How to see Exemplar error messages

Usually Eclipse starts up using javaw.exe, which does not show a command console. If you instead start up eclipse with command-line "eclipse -vm (path-to-JRE)\bin\java.exe", where (path-to-JRE) points to the Java Runtime Environment you usually use, you will get a console that shows all debug and error messages. Please send those error messages to exemplar at cs dot stanford dot edu and we may be able to fix the problem.

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