Nice... what's your username? I can add it to the Sourceforge project as a developer.

I am "brettcoburn" on Sourceforge. I'm in the process of moving at the moment, but once that's done then I'll see if there's an easy way to fix the bug. I can probably test to see if the game is running on a Mac or Linux platform, and if so, use the workaround that was posted in the Java bug comments.

OK I made you an admin. (so I'm not the only one.)

Ok, I wish I had the time to do this in a way that won't break when they fix the bug, but for now I think that this will fix it:

InvadeEarth/src/org/invade/Player.java (replace line 191):

//ugly hack to work around Java bug #6183251 - it WILL break if they eventually fix it
String lcOSName = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase();
boolean MAC_OS_X = lcOSName.startsWith("mac os x");
boolean LINUX = lcOSName.startsWith("linux");
if ( !(MAC_OS_X || LINUX) ) {
byte[][] color_threshold = {red_lookup, green_lookup, blue_lookup, identity};
} else {
//bug makes RGBA into GRAB
byte[][] color_threshold = {green_lookup, red_lookup, identity, blue_lookup};
}

I think that should fix it. I am not familiar with the steps needed to test it, as I've never compiled a Java project that was organized this way... way back when I was learning Java, everything was in a flat directory. I'd love to know how I could test it; if you could give me a quick how-to for compiling and running the project then I'd be grateful.

Get NetBeans, then use the built-in CVS to check out Invade Earth. That's the tricky part. All the project settings and everything are in there, you just have to hit Build and Run.

Ok, thanks. I'll try it out this weekend.

Looks like NetBeans works, but I've been so overloaded with school that I don't have time to test my code... it will happen though.

I managed to get through downloading the project from CVS, but it looks like I need some libraries. Do I need to get those from a website, or can NetBeans download them for me?

All the libraries should be in the CVS repository of Invade Earth under the "web" folder.

Actually, the dualrpc jars in the repository seem to be out-dated. There are a few types that aren't in the jars when you initially checkout and try to build the project, like CallException, that lead to 30-some build errors. The new versions can be obtained easily enough from googling dualrpc and added to your working copy.

Unless of course, I totally missed something.

oops. You're probably right on that one.... I remember upgrading to a more recent DualRPC at one point to fix a bug, and I might have forgotten to update the /web copy. Feel free to replace it in CVS as well.