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Alan- For more information on the extra lines at the top that Jeff sent, see the User's Guide page at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/IDV/docs/userguide/data/TextPointData.html Don > > I dwonloaded a text point data file for wind from the NEAR-GOOS database > > ftp://ftp1.jodc.go.jp/www/lunar.comet.ucar.edu/2006_03.wind.txt, > > which I then saved locally (see attached). > > In the data chooser, I selected text point data as the file type. So far, > > so good. > > When the go to create the display, I asign properties to the various > > parameters > > (see the attached screenshot). > > When I click OK to create the display, I get the NullPointerException. > > > > The problem is that we don't handle dates that are in multiple columns > through the gui. > However, we can handle them in the data if we use the "colspan" attribute. > So, if you > put the following 2 lines at the beginning of the file the IDV can read the > data: > > (index) ->(Latitude, Longitude, Time, WDIR, WSPD, SIGN(Text)) > skip[], Latitude[unit="deg"],skip[], Longitude[unit="deg"],skip[], > Time[fmt="dd MM yyyy HH mm" colspan="5"], WDIR[unit="deg" miss="MM"], > WSPD[unit="m/s" miss="MM"], skip[],SIGN(Text),skip[],skip[] > > We'll be adding the colspan ability into the gui. > > > -Jeff > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: KBZ-495057 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open