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Hi Keith- Geez, you're just finding all the 2.7 bugs! ;-) My bad. Tried to fix one thing, broke another. The fix will be in tomorrow's nightly build. I'm trying to make a 2.7u1 release later this week which will have the WRF fix and this one. Don > Full Name: Keith Searight > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: NCAR/RAL > Package Version: 2.7 build date:2009-06-25 07:08 UTC > Operating System: Windows XP > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\IDV_2.7\jre version: 1.6.0_11 > j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > Description of problem: There was an error loading the data: > java.lang.NullPointerException > > I've attached the plugin xml/jar and the data file used to create the layout. > The data loads fine when using the Point Data dialog with the saved layout. > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.applySavedMetaData(TextPointDataSource.java:1088) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:370) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:317) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.getSample(TextPointDataSource.java:1597) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(PointDataSource.java:906) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(TextPointDataSource.java:1605) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.getDataChoices(DataSourceImpl.java:1743) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1492) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1966) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1883) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1817) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1790) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.IdvChooser.makeDataSource(IdvChooser.java:907) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFilesInner(FileChooser.java:648) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFiles(FileChooser.java:517) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.doLoadInThread(FileChooser.java:539) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1033) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1061) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: BUV-879142 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open