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> Full Name: Juanjo Ledo > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: University of Barcelona > Package Version: 3.0 build date:2011-08-29 16:38 UTC > Operating System: Mac OS X > Hardware: Java: home: > /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home version: > 1.6.0_20 j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > Description of problem: There was an error loading the data: Hi Juanjo, The error message suggests that you were working on some text point data, can you provide more information and attach a sample file? Yuan > java.lang.NullPointerException > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.NullPointerException > at visad.Tuple.buildTupleType(Tuple.java:170) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makePointObs(TextPointDataSource.java:2105) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:656) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:479) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.getSample(TextPointDataSource.java:2518) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(PointDataSource.java:932) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(TextPointDataSource.java:2526) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.getDataChoices(DataSourceImpl.java:1843) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1556) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1998) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1915) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1849) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1822) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.IdvChooser.makeDataSource(IdvChooser.java:943) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFilesInner(FileChooser.java:656) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.selectFiles(FileChooser.java:525) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.FileChooser.doLoadInThread(FileChooser.java:547) > 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:1063) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1091) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: YRH-416633 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open