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> Greetings, > I was attempting to plot gridded value points on a displayed grib2 image. I > am currently unable to plot value points any longer. I was trying to change > the color over from the default pink to black and maybe this triggered an > error? Either way, I cannot plot any gridded value points on my contoured > (rain accumulation) images. > > Thanks, > Patrick Blood > Patrick, I cann't reproduce this locally. I wonder if you can try to use other dataset from adde and TDS server to reproduce this error. Yuan > > address@hidden> wrote: > > > > Full Name: Patrick Blood > > > Email Address: address@hidden > > > Organization: NOAA > > > Package Version: 4.0u1 build date:2013-03-29 18:10 UTC > > > Operating System: Windows Vista > > > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\IDV_4.0u1\jre version: 1.6.0_43 > > j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > > > Description of problem: making shapes > > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > > > > > This is the error I receicve when i attmept to load values onto a 2-D > > one hour preciptaiton field. > > > > > > How can I load values? > > > > > > > Hi Patrick, > > I need more detail information to understand your problem. What kind > > of display were you trying to create? And how did you do it? > > > > > > Yuan > > > ****************** > > > Stack trace: > > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > > at > > ucar.visad.display.StationModelDisplayable.makeShapes(StationModelDisplayable.java:1118) > > > at > > ucar.visad.display.StationModelDisplayable.makeShapesFromPointObsField(StationModelDisplayable.java:914) > > > at > > ucar.visad.display.StationModelDisplayable.makeNewDataWithShapes(StationModelDisplayable.java:697) > > > at > > ucar.visad.display.StationModelDisplayable.setStationData(StationModelDisplayable.java:441) > > > at > > ucar.visad.display.GridValueDisplayable.loadData(GridValueDisplayable.java:116) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.idv.control.PlanViewControl.loadDataAtLevel(PlanViewControl.java:1229) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.idv.control.PlanViewControl.loadDataAtLevel(PlanViewControl.java:1140) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.idv.control.PlanViewControl.setData(PlanViewControl.java:697) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.idv.control.PlanViewControl.init(PlanViewControl.java:471) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.init(DisplayControlImpl.java:1421) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.init(DisplayControlImpl.java:1106) > > > at > > ucar.unidata.idv.ControlDescriptor.initControl(ControlDescriptor.java:986) > > > at ucar.unidata.idv.ControlDescriptor$1.run(ControlDescriptor.java:911) > > > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1249) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ticket Details > > =================== > > Ticket ID: PYZ-368882 > > Department: Support IDV > > Priority: Normal > > Status: Open > > > > > > > -- > Patrick G. Blood > Forecaster > > National Weather Service > Houston - Galveston > 1353 FM 646 Suite 202 > Dickinson, TX 77539 > 281-337-5074 (ext 304) > weather.gov/houston > https://twitter.com/NWSHouston > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: PYZ-368882 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open