<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
</head>
<body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">
Hello
<div><br>
</div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">I'm curently developing some Matlab code to access OMERO using a virtualbox server</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">running on the development machine to do the testing.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">when I call </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br>
</font></div>
<div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">client = loadOmero('localhost');</font></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>
</font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">either when the server isn't running or with an invalid address</font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">it returns with no problem.</font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>
</font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Is there a way of telling whether the value returned ( 'client' in the code snippet )</font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">represents a valid server or not?</font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>
</font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">The reason I want to know is that if the server isn't valid </font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">a subsequent call to </font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>
</font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">session = client.createSession(userName,passwd);</font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>
</font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">fails to return properly.</font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>
</font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Thanks </font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>
</font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Courier; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Ian</font></div>
<div><br>
</div>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
</body>
</html>