I'd like to initialize some instance variables according to the current value on one of the @ins.
@ins is nil in the init method though. Is this a bug?

Workaround: set the instance variable in the event method if it is nil.

I've created such a discovery server.
But actually I don't need it, as it's much easier to try to connect to the local address of each active network device in java and use the first one that works...

Maybe if someone needs it, I've attached my efforts.
2 things to mention:
1. Flowstone's Server ...

Actually I use TCP. But the workaround with the UDP Bonjour-like preamble is a good idea, thanks! Let's see if I can incorporate this easily.

I've got an external Java client.

As I said, I have several machine IPs (LAN, Wireless), and no way of knowing which IP Flowstone server binds to. I want to avoid having to enter it manually in my client software everytime. Why doesn't connecting to 127.0.0.1 work? Looks more like a bug to me.

Tronic wrote:connect a simple primitive string and leave it blank.

Not sure what you mean, the Server component doesn't have an IP input. Could it be that you are talking about the Client component?

That is what happens when I'm using my own IP address(the address the server outputs) as the Client's input. Configuring the client to use IP's like 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' don't work at all, giving me a 'Could not connect to server' error.

Either I am doing something wrong, or there's a bug ...