Name: fb126949 Date: 10/08/2003


When calling the open() method without parameters (inherited from interface Line) in an instance of Clip, an IllegalArgumentException is thrown. This behavior has always existed.

However, javadoc of Line.open() states:
  This method takes no arguments, and opens the
  line with the current settings. For
  SourceDataLine and TargetDataLine objects, this
  means that the line is opened with default
  settings. For a Clip, however, the buffer size
  is determined when data is loaded. Since this
  method does not allow the application to specify
  any data to load, it allocates resources for a
  clip with zero frames of data, and there is no
  means for subsequently loading data into that
  clip. Therefore, you should instead use one of
  the open methods provided in the Clip interface
  to load data into the Clip.

This is not useful and it was never implemented like that. Therefore the text above should be changed to specify explicitely that IAE is thrown if Clip.open() is called.


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checked in bug fix