Hi Andrew,
In case you haven't heard from Tom Whittaker yet, I improved the
SpreadSheet's support for TextTypes to eliminate these problems.
Tom said the new text file loader works now as well. The latest
version of VisAD available on the FTP site has these updates
available now.
-Curtis
At 13:02 5/03/01, Andrew Donaldson wrote:
>James Kelly from here and Tom Whittaker have been mucking
>around with adding Text support to the text file loader (it currently
>only supports RealTypes, they are adding TextType).
>
> I found that running a demo in jython (see Toms email 29 Jan 2001)
>doesn't work very well with the experimental text support.
>
> Part of the problem is that visad.ss.MappingDialog does not have the
>text types displayed. This is due to what seems to be a fault in
>visad.util.DataUtility.parseScalar() which really only parses
>RealTypes. I can fix this, but then MappingDialog falls over.
>
> It all starting looking bad, so I stopped. It's possible that
>TextType support is a bit thin in some areas. Is this worth fixing?
>(we at BoM would like it working :)
>
>jython spits out this straight away:
>
>java.lang.ClassCastException: visad.TextType
> at visad.ss.SSCellImpl.doAction(SSCellImpl.java:170)
> at visad.ActionImpl.run(ActionImpl.java:228)
> at visad.util.ThreadPool$ThreadMinnow.run(ThreadPool.java:92)
>
>And if I click on Mapping I get:
>Exception occurred during event dispatching:
>java.lang.ClassCastException: visad.TextType
> at visad.ss.MappingDialog.<init>(MappingDialog.java:446)
> at visad.ss.FancySSCell.addMapDialog(FancySSCell.java:473)
> at
> visad.python.JPythonMethods$1.actionPerformed(JPythonMethods.java:245)
> at
> javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1450)
> at
> javax.swing.AbstractButton$ForwardActionEvents.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1504)
> at
> javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:378)
> at
> javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:250)
> at
> javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:216)
> at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:3715)
> at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:3544)
> at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1165)
> at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:2593)
> at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1214)
> at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2497)
> at
> java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:2452)
> at
> java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:2217)
> at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:2126)
> at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1201)
> at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:912)
> at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2497)
> at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:333)
> at
> java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEvent(EventDispatchThread.java:103)
> at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
> at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:84)
>
>thanks for your ideas/help,
>
>Andrew.
>
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> Andrew Donaldson
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