Catching Throwable instead of IOException in an attempt to catch unknown "type mismatch error" on windows8

Author: Federico Fissore

app/src/processing/app/macosx/Platform.java

@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ public String preListAllCandidateDevices() {
       CommandLine toDevicePath = CommandLine.parse("/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPUSBDataType");
       executor.execute(toDevicePath);
       return new String(baos.toByteArray());
-    } catch (IOException e) {
+    } catch (Throwable e) {
       return super.preListAllCandidateDevices();
     }
   }

app/src/processing/app/windows/Platform.java

@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ public String preListAllCandidateDevices() {
       CommandLine toDevicePath = CommandLine.parse(listComPorts);
       executor.execute(toDevicePath);
       return new String(baos.toByteArray());
-    } catch (IOException e) {
+    } catch (Throwable e) {
       return super.preListAllCandidateDevices();
     }
   }