[Jcaptcha-users] customized gimpy engine not working correctly

[Ted C. <ne...@ya...>]

Hi, =0A    I tried the 5 min tutorial yesterday and it worked great!  Howev=
er, after I customized the gimpy engine, several things are not working cor=
rectly.  I'm running it on tomcat 5.5 with jdk1.5.  Are these caused by my =
configuration errors?  Any help is appreciated. =0A=0A1. This is the part t=
hat puzzles me the most.  =0A    I copied all the code from DefaultGimpyEng=
ine.buildInitialFactories(), and made 1 line change ...=0A=0Afrom TextPaste=
r randomPaster =3D new DecoratedRandomTextPaster(..., new SingleColorGenera=
tor(Color.black), ...)=0Ato TextPaster randomPaster =3D new DecoratedRandom=
TextPaster(..., new SingleColorGenerator(Color.GREEN), ...)=0A=0AAt the end=
 I do =0A=0AImageCaptchaFactory factory =3D new GimpyFactory(dictionnaryWor=
ds, word2image);=0ADefaultGimpyEngine engine =3D new DefaultGimpyEngine();=
=0Aengine.addFactory(factory);=0Areturn new DefaultManageableImageCaptchaSe=
rvice(new FastHashMapCaptchaStore(), engine, 180, 100000, 75000);=0A=0A    =
What I found out was that words on images were shown green 80% of the time,=
 for the rest 20% or more, it seemed it's not taking my customization and j=
ust rendered the default, black.   Same happened to any customization I mad=
e to the default engine (font change, # of chars in the image, image size, =
...).  It always seemed there're certain percentage of times where it didn'=
t take my customization, and just renders the pictures in default format.=
=0A=0A=0A2. When I do new FileReaderRandomBackgroundGenerator(new Integer(2=
00), new Integer(100), "gimpybackgrounds"), I got the following exception w=
hen tomcat starts.  That's even after I put the gimpybackgrounds directory =
(with jpegs in it) in my jpcatcha-all-1.0-RC3.jar.  So in the jar file, a p=
ath to a jpg in the directory looks like "gimpybackgrounds/1v.jpg" etc.  If=
 I put the directory directly under my tomcat root it works.  But, that's n=
ot what I want.=0A=0ACaused by: com.octo.captcha.CaptchaException: All trie=
d paths :'C:\Program Files\Apache\Tomcat 5.5\gimpybackgrounds=0AC:\Program =
Files\Apache\Tomcat 5.5\.\gimpybackgrounds=0AC:\gimpybackgrounds=0AC:\Progr=
am Files\Apache\Tomcat 5.5\file:\C:\Program%20Files\Apache\Tomcat%205.5\web=
apps\test\WEB-INF\lib\jcaptcha-all-1.0-RC3.jar!\gimpybackgrounds=0A' is not=
 a directory or cannot be read=0A        at com.octo.captcha.component.imag=
e.backgroundgenerator.FileReaderRandomBackgroundGenerator.findDirectory(Fil=
eReaderRandomBackgroundGenerator.java:135)=0A...=0A=0A=0A3. In DefaultImage=
CaptchaEngine.setFactories(CaptchaFactories[]), there's the following line=
=0A=0A      if (ImageCaptchaFactory.class.isAssignableFrom(factories[i].get=
Class())) {throw expection....}=0A=0A=0AShould it be =0A=0A     if (! ...is=
Assignable...) {throw exception}=0A?=0A=0A=0AYour help is appreciated!=0A=
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