20050330: problem in installing IDV

Hi Bernard,

> I installed IDV on my Linux box (running Mandrake 10.1 distro)
> and got the following error after launching runIDV which stalls
> at this point:
> ERROR: An error has occurred:
> Loading  parameter to color table properties
> Unparseable number: ".25"
>
> Any hint about this?
>
> I tried various VM, the one included and others included in the distro
> or directly from SUN without any effect.
>  
The culprit might be the localization mechanism which is used to convert 
string
to numbers and the "." and "," differences between us and europe.  The 
weird thing
is that this error is happening when reading in system resource files 
which should *not*
be using any localization facilities.

In the error dialog that comes up there is a "Show Details" button that 
will list the stack trace
(assuming an error dialog comes up) or the stack trace is printed to 
standard out. Could you send
me the stack trace so I can track down where this error is occurring?

Thanks,
Jeff