20030806: Plotting points in IDV (cont.)

> > To: "'address@hidden'" <address@hidden>,
> > To: Petty Kevin <address@hidden>
> > cc: address@hidden
> > From: Petty Kevin <address@hidden>
> > Subject: RE: 20030730: Plotting points in IDV
> > Organization: EPA
> > Keywords: 200308051732.h75HW4Ld009679 IDV point plots JNLP

Hi Kevin-

> The netCDF technique works great for plotting flight tracks!

Glad that worked.

> However, I get the following error (below) when I attempt to use the JNLP
> file
> that I created to start IDV. As you can see, it can't open my properties
> file. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
> +++++
> An error occurred while launching/running the application.
>
> Title: Integrated Data Viewer 
> Vendor: Unidata
> Category: Unexpected Error
>
> Could not open  property file: /home/petk/IDV/myidv.properties
> +++++

Is the file accessible from the machine you are running the IDV
on (i.e. can you get to /home/petk/IDV/myidv.properties)?  Does
the file exist and is that the correct name/path? (when I was going
through the steps, I had named the file myidv.props but put myidv.prop
in the JNLP and of course it couldn't find it).  Is the JNLP
file on a web server or just on the local file system?

> Here is my JNLP FILE:
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
>      <!-- JNLP File for Integrated Data Viewer --> 
>      <jnlp 
>         spec="1.0+" 
>         codebase = "http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/metapps/webstart/";>
>
>        <information> 
>          <title>Integrated Data Viewer </title> 
>          <vendor>Unidata</vendor> 
>          <homepage
> href="http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/IDV/index.html"/> 
>          <description>Integrated Data Viewer(IDV)</description> 
>          <description kind="short">View geolocated scientific datasets. This
> is the refereference application from Unidata's meteorological applications
> development (MetApps).
>         </description> 
>         <icon href="IDV/idv.gif"/> 
>         <offline-allowed/> 
>        </information> 
>        <resources> 
>          <j2se version="1.3+" max-heap-size="512m" /> 
>            <jar href="IDV/idv.jar"/>
>            <extension name="IDV Base" href="IDV/idvbase.jnlp"/>
>        </resources>
>        <resources os="Linux"> 
>            <property name="j3d.sharedctx" value="false"/>
>        </resources>
>        <application-desc main-class="ucar.unidata.idv.DefaultIdv">
>         <argument>-properties</argument>
>         <argument>/home/petk/IDV/myidv.properties</argument>
>        <security>
>            <all-permissions/>
>        </security>
>
>      </jnlp> 

This looks okay and since the error indicates it can't find
the file, make sure the file is readable, does exist and the
name/path is correct and it's accessible from the machine you
are running on.

Don
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