[IDV #KBZ-495057]: IDV - text point data error

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
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Ticket ID: KBZ-495057
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open