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> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > Hi Juan, > > Thanks for your suggestions. > > I tried the www.unidata.ucar.edu side initially (where I got the contact > information), but wasn't able to locate the trouble shooting solutions for the > animation widget. I might have been looking in the wrong area. Will recheck > again. > > The IDV is not installed locally. I am a client to another PC which has the > IDV. > I think this is the problem. It would be good if you can install the IDV in your machine. IDV is a client and is designed to run locally. Yuan > I tried running the animation widget with the animation not turned on. The > results were the same. > > Best Regards, > Gail > > -----Original Message----- > From: Unidata IDV Support [mailto:address@hidden] > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 11:16 AM > To: Vaucher, Gail T CIV (US) > Cc: address@hidden > Subject: [IDV #RHN-329170]: An IDV display animation question (UNCLASSIFIED) > > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > > Caveats: NONE > > > > Hello, > > > > While attempting to trouble shoot an IDV error, I came across your email. > > Is there a website that provides insights into various IDV errors? > > The user's guide was helpful, but did not lead to a solution. > > > Gail, > > You can browse the www.unidata.ucar.edu site for information of previous > support tickets. > > The Error being addressed is: > > > > The IDV animation widget (green boxes) cycles through the time series > > listed, but the visual display does not animate. > > > > Is the IDV installed locally? are you having other displays in the window? I > need more information to understand this problem. > > > (Aside: When I animate the images through another option, there is no > > correlation with the IDV animation widget. I can animate the images > > by clicking on "view", "displays", "visibility animation", "on" > > option. But have limited ability to easily stop/start/edit the > > sequence.) > > > > You should not turn on the visibility animation, this is not what you wanted. > > Yuan > > Any suggestions for how to fix the IDV animation widget disconnect > > with the visual display? > > > > Thank you, > > Gail > > > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > > Caveats: NONE > > > > > > > > > > > Ticket Details > =================== > Ticket ID: RHN-329170 > Department: Support IDV > Priority: Normal > Status: Open > > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RHN-329170 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed