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You have found a bug. Vis5D data files can be accessed as URLS but the IDV was not making use of that facility. I have a fix for this. How do you run the IDV? from the soruce code distribution, webstart, install anywhere? If you run from the source code I could send you the 1 line change. If you don'tSome more questions : I've removed the </view> tag and it's OK I'm now in trouble with the v5d files hosting on http server. I'm able to do this :<a href="idv:idv.createDisplay ('C:/4D_t1.v5d', 'Unamed', 'isosurface', '')">But this :<a href="idv:idv.createDisplay ('http://www.loni.ucla.edu/~bmendibu/4D_t1.v5d', 'Unamed', 'isosurface', '')">Generates : =========== An exeception has occured Initalizing Vis5D data sourceData object "http://www.loni.ucla.edu/~bmendibu/4D_t1.v5d" not compatible with v5d data family=========== And the file is present and avalaible for download on the web server. Should I modify the server settings ?
I'll have to think of a way to get you the fix. -Jeff McWhirter