[IDV #XAX-101711]: Point text metadata GUI

> Greetings Scott,
> 
> It looks like the IDV is using java 1.7 from your system. Did you edit the 
> runIDV.bat
> script to use that version rather than the bundled jre, or did you download 
> the
> "Generic installer for IDV for systems with their own Java and Java 3D" from 
> the
> downloads page?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Sean

Scott,
     After tried the dataset more carefully, I have no problem now. When the 
point data format window popup, you need to specify the Unit/Date Format for 
the first two columns as Misc > Text. After doing this, I didn't see any error 
message.



Yuan
> 
> > > Interesting, I'm not getting that error at all (see attached image). Let 
> > > me check
> > > with someone running windows to see if they get the error.
> > >
> > > Yuan, can you try this on your machine?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Sean
> > >
> >
> > Sean,
> > I can see some error messages when parsing the data. Try to understand it.
> >
> >
> > Yuan
> > > > Hi Sean,
> > > >
> > > > Sure thing. Same result, unfortunately. Data source type used was text
> > > > point data files...error received is
> > > >
> > > > There was an error loading the data:
> > > > Error creating data source:file.pointtracktext with: C:\Temp\90_2012.txt
> > > > Making grid parameters
> > > > TextAdapter: MathType badly formed or missing:
> > > > ((index)->(IDN(Text),Longitude,Latitude))
> > > >
> > > > Does this error reproduce for you?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Scott
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > address@hidden> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Greetings Scott,
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you try this header:
> > > > >
> > > > > (index)->(IDN(Text),Longitude,Latitude)
> > > > >
> > > > > skip[],IDN(Text)[],Longitude[unit="degrees"],Latitude[unit="degrees"],skip[],skip[]
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > >
> > > > > Sean
> > > > >
> > > > > > Full Name: Scott Stephens
> > > > > > Email Address: address@hidden
> > > > > > Organization: NOAA/NCDC
> > > > > > Package Version: 4.1 build date:2013-08-02 18:38 UTC
> > > > > > Operating System: Windows 7
> > > > > > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\Java\jre7 version: 1.7.0_25
> > > > > j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4)
> > > > > > Description of problem: Has there been a change in version 4.1 that
> > > > > results in problem with the text point metadata gui? This process 
> > > > > worked
> > > > > smoothly in the prior IDV version.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I can ingest data values and display with no issues, but the 
> > > > > > station ID
> > > > > or name (containing plain text) information seems to cause some 
> > > > > heartburn:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm attaching  a sample file.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > Scott
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > There was an error loading the data:
> > > > > > Error creating data source:file.pointtext with: C:\Temp\90_2013.txt
> > > > > > Making grid parameters
> > > > > > TextAdapter: MathType badly formed or missing:
> > > > > ((index)->(IDN(Text),Longitude,Latitude))
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ******************
> > > > > > Stack trace:
> > > > > > visad.VisADException: TextAdapter: MathType badly formed or missing:
> > > > > ((index)->(IDN(Text),Longitude,Latitude))
> > > > > > at visad.data.text.TextAdapter.readit(TextAdapter.java:693)
> > > > > > at visad.data.text.TextAdapter.<init>(TextAdapter.java:281)
> > > > > > at
> > > > > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:637)
> > > > > > at
> > > > > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.makeObs(TextPointDataSource.java:479)
> > > > > > at
> > > > > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.getSample(TextPointDataSource.java:2520)
> > > > > > at
> > > > > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(PointDataSource.java:960)
> > > > > > at
> > > > > ucar.unidata.data.point.TextPointDataSource.doMakeDataChoices(TextPointDataSource.java:2528)
> > > > > > at
> > > > > ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.getDataChoices(DataSourceImpl.java:1852)
> > > > > > at 
> > > > > > ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1599)
> > > > > > at
> > > > > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1980)
> > > > > > at
> > > > > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1897)
> > > > > > at
> > > > > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1831)
> > > > > > at
> > > > > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1804)
> > > > > > 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(Unknown Source)
> > > > > > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
> > > > > > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
> > > > > > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1223)
> > > > > > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1251)
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Ticket Details
> > > > > ===================
> > > > > Ticket ID: XAX-101711
> > > > > Department: Support IDV
> > > > > Priority: Normal
> > > > > Status: Open
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > > *Scott E. Stephens*
> > > > Meteorologist
> > > > Customer Services/Climate Monitoring
> > > > NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center
> > > > 151 Patton Avenue
> > > > Asheville, NC USA 28801-5001
> > > > V: 828-271-4800
> > > > F: 828-271-4876
> > > > E-Mail: address@hidden
> > > > *http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/*
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >


Ticket Details
===================
Ticket ID: XAX-101711
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open