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[IDV #ASK-301176]: IDV - filepaths feature request

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  • Subject: [IDV #ASK-301176]: IDV - filepaths feature request
  • Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:19:00 -0600
Hi Dan-

> Institution: Department of Meteorology, University of Utah
> Package Version: 2.0RC3
> Operating System: Red Hat Linux 64-bit
> Hardware Information: AMD 64X2 processor, 2Gb RAM
> Inquiry: Is there any way you can implement general file paths, instead of 
> specific file paths? For example, if I have my data  and my xidv files in 
> home/dtyndall/idv, I would much rather have IDV try to open up the data files 
> from ./ instead of /home/dtyndall/idv. I'm currently running into problems if 
> I try to move the files over to another user or a completely different 
> computer network.

It's on our list of things to do, we just haven't gotten around to
it yet.  It'll take a little bit of creative coding to make sure we
are backward compatible.  

Basically, we are thinking that when the bundle is saved, there
will be an option to set the paths relative instead of absolute.
On opening, there will either be a property or some way to 
set the top level directory for relative paths.

Since some datasets can be local and others remote in the same bundle, 
we have to work through this carefully to make sure we don't break
anything.

Thanks for your thoughts on this.


Don Murray

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: ASK-301176
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open