[IDV #HRS-452983]: IDV - IDV - ISL save image problem

Hi Chris-

> I checked the Java versions on my personal computer that has XP and IDV 2.3 
> on it. I am running Java 1.5.9_11 and Java 1.3.2 fcs (build 12). The Java 
> Render is OpenGL which is different then the Direct X being used on the 
> university's computer. I am aware that the OpenGL is now the preferred driver 
> to use because features like changing line widths will not work with Direct X 
> and this is the case on the universities computers. I again attempted to 
> capture an image as GIF and it worked on my personal computer but that could 
> be because it has Java 5 and 3 and not Java 5 and 6.

It's Java 6 (1.6) that is the problem.  Apparently, GIF in 1.6 supports
compression which it didn't in 1.5.  This will be fixed in tonight's
build.  One wrinkle though.  In 1.5, setting a compression type
was not supported, but by default GIF compressed the image.  Now that
the compression can be set, the image quality flag is being used
so the default mode of High (low compression) results in larger images.  
So, if you  care about the size of the resulting  images, set the quality 
to low which gives you a high compression rate.  Since GIF is lossless
you don't lose image quality.

Don
> Christopher Warren
> Graduate Research Assistant
> Plymouth State University
> Dept. of C.E.A.P.S.
> 17th High St. MSC 48
> Plymouth, NH 03264
> Tel:860-869-0755
> E-mail: address@hidden
> 
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> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:27 AM
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> Subject: [IDV #HRS-452983]: IDV - IDV - ISL save image problem
> 
> Hi Chris-
> 
> > The previous versions of IDV were being run on XP. Just a little while ago 
> > I also tested IDV 2.3 on an XP machine with Java 6 and .gif did work. 
> > Thanks for looking into this for me.
> 
> Use the Help->About menu to bring up the dialog and click on
> the "System" tab to make sure that it is running Java 6.  There
> are 2 installers for IDV 2.3 on windows - one with Java 5 and one
> with Java 6 (the latter is labeled for Vista).  When I use the
> Vista version on XP, I get the error when saving to GIF.
> 
> Don
> 
> Ticket Details
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> Ticket ID: HRS-452983
> Department: Support IDV
> Priority: Normal
> Status: Open
> 
> 
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: HRS-452983
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open