Re: question about adde image chooser

Tom-

Tom Whittaker wrote:
> Hey, did you get the little DecimalFormat extension I sent?

Yes, but I haven't had a chance to play with it.

> But...the real reason I'm writing:  in 1.0b6, I put the 'tom.properties' 
> file in the IDV startup directory, added it's name to the runIDV.bat 
> file.  But it did not seem to find the 'extrachoosers.xml' file (that 
> was in the /c/documents and settings/tomw/.metapps/DefaultIdv/ 
> directory).  I moved this file into the IDV startup directory and then 
> it worked fine...it's "almost like" the environment variable IDVPATH is 
> not set -- is that basically the case?  Or is it set sometime later or 
> something.

What does tom.properties look like?   What is in extrachoosers.xml?
What does your runIDV.bat look like after the mod?  Send this all
along and I'll test it here.

> Anyways, that's all I wanted.  I had Scott Bachmeier get b6 for his 
> Linux box, but when he ran it all his images turned up as white 
> rectangles.  Unfortunately, he's on RedHat 7.0...so I told him to try 
> again when he gets 7.2 installed (next week, I hear).  He's interested 
> in getting the GINI data and being able to look at the MODIS stuff 
> coincidently.

We have others reporting this.  It would be good to know
the configuration (OS version, XFree86 version and video card)
so we could track this down and provide a solution.

Don
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