Bill,

I went back and dug up my version 4.0-beta 10 trial--the IDE it was
linked to on my machine was 354 days past its trial period! So,
after waiting for 5 minutes and 54 seconds for the penalty countdown
to finish, I tried out your data_sting example, and I got the
output: "MC". Hmmm.

I have taken to keeping the Java Console running while I run Steam
XML so that I can see if any errors cause a corresponding Java
exception. Try opening the Java console (you must set this up in
your Java control panel) and then run your code and see if there are
any errors that pop up when you run the "MC" program.

It is worth a try to ask for a newer version.

Let's see if we can get this figured out!

_Merrick

--- In waterlanguage@yahoogroups.com, "William N. Schorn"
<wschorn@s...> wrote:
> Merrick
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I'm using a trial version that I downloaded on Aug 29 2005.
> Product name: Steam XML IDE
> Water version: 4.0 beta-10 Professional Edition - Trial
> Java VM version: 1.5.0_04-b05
>
> I understand that the book is a little out of date, but get
worried when
> the simple
> stuff doesn't work.
>
> Perhaps I should request another version? It seems odd that they
would send
> a beta version for a trial run.
>
> Thanks again
>
> Bill