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>From: Tom Whittaker <address@hidden> >Organization: SSEC >Keywords: 200310242035.h9OKZeOb020981 IDV time series bug Hi Tom- >I displayed a 4 image sequence of MKX radar data (hey, thunderstorms are >happening right here, right now...). When I brought up a Time Series on the >same display I got the following plus a pop-up error window -- but the probe >came up and worked just fine (1.1b2...on Windoz): Thanks for finding this. This only was a problem if you were animating at the time the probe was being created. I've put in a fix and it will be in the next release. >ERROR ucar.unidata.idv.control.GridDisplayControl - An error has occurred >changePosition >null >java.lang.NullPointerException > at ucar.unidata.idv.control.TimeSeriesControl.updateIndicatorPosition > (Ti >meSeriesControl.java:362) > at ucar.unidata.idv.control.TimeSeriesControl.access$000(TimeSeriesCo > ntr >ol.java:77) > at ucar.unidata.idv.control.TimeSeriesControl$1.propertyChange(TimeSe > rie >sControl.java:155) > at java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(Unknown Source > ) > at ucar.visad.display.Displayable.firePropertyChange(Displayable.java > :73 >8) > at ucar.visad.display.Animation$AnimationControlListener.controlChang > ed( >Animation.java:778) > at visad.Control.changeControl(Control.java:95) > at visad.java3d.AnimationControlJ3D.takeStep(AnimationControlJ3D.java > :28 >3) > at visad.java3d.AnimationControlJ3D.run(AnimationControlJ3D.java:108) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Don