Re: System.out PrintWriter print() and flush() not flushing?

I tried your solution, but there's still no flush on printing just a
dot without println...

while ( sck.isConnected() && !sck.isClosed() )
{
    boolean doNewline = false;

    try
    {
        //times out according to socket (here one sec)
        String strMessage = br.readLine();

        if ( strMessage != null )
        {
                if ( doNewline )
                {
                    System.out.println();
                }

                System.out.println(" IN <<< '" + strMessage + "'");

                Message msg = mf.createIncomingMessage(strMessage);

                processIncomingMessage(msg);

                doNewline = false;
            }

            Thread.sleep(msec);

        }
        catch ( SocketTimeoutException ste )
        {
            //doesn't flush
            System.out.print(".");
            System.out.flush();
            doNewline = true;
        }
        catch ( Exception e )
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

When I let the program run for a few seconds nothing gets printed
while receiving no data (timeout), when I close the program and return
to the shell, all missing dots are printed all at once. But this is
not what I wanted. I want to print just a dot without newline for each
second the socket doesn't receive data.

Im out of ideas *shrug*... sometimes the easiest things to do turn out
to be the most pain in the...

Karsten