RE: older verions of visad/jython

• To: "Campbell, Garrett" <Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: RE: older verions of visad/jython
• From: Tom Whittaker <tomw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:12:33 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Campbell, Garrett wrote:

> Great, a work around.

Excellent.  You might want to read in your data objects and re-save them
in a non-version-dependent manner....

tom

p.s. thanks for clarifying the 'save(filename, data...)'


>
> the older visad.jar at least lets me execute the program as it was
> running yesterday.
> I have no idea why I get the hotspot crash, maybe jre1.3.1 is needed to
> match up with
> visad.jar (april 22).
>
> Dan Murray suggested the VisADForm.save and it was sure easier that
> trying to figure
> out how to save a area file with all the nav info and then read it back.
>
> Great I can even read in the old objects.
>
> What ever changes were made in between your install file and the current
> version
> sure had a big effect.
>
>
> this was the save code:
>      filename=prefix+sat+Sdy+str(itav)+".wnd"
> #      select=[] select.append(1.),select.append(2.)..
>      fselect=field(select)
>      VisADForm().save(filename,fselect,1)
>      filename=filename+"V"
>      VisADForm().save(filename,data,1)
> where data=load(adde:pointdata..)
>
> Someone must have changed the field object.
>
> If it is not too hard, maybe you should save each version of the install
> program
> for dumb users like me.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Whittaker [mailto:tomw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 3:48 PM
> To: Campbell, Garrett
> Subject: RE: older verions of visad/jython
>
>
> > I even tried java 1.4 but that had yet more problems with java 3d
> > packages.
>
> There have been previous postings about this.  The Java3D 1.3x(beta) or
> something is compatible with Java1.4, previous versions are not.
>
> I've been looking at your posting to the list.  You said:
>
> > > can not be read in again.  (I had an array of floats fselect=[]
> > > fselect.append(1.)..
> > > which I saved:
> > >      VisADForm().save(filename,fselect,1)
>
> Did you create fslelect as a list in Jython? (Which is really a PyList
> object, probably containing PyFloat objects...)
>
> I'm only asking because if I take your steps above literally, I cannot
> believe it wrote anything, because the signature for save() takes a
> VisAD Data object as the second parameter, not a Jython "PyList" object.
>
> Anyway, I hope you can get this squared away.  I agree with your other
> statement, though -- people who want long-term persistence shouls use
> the saveBinary.  I had so many problems a couple of years ago with
> serializing Java Objects to disk (naively thinking it was a good way to
> not have to decode files every time) that I gave up.
>
> tom
>
> --
> Tom Whittaker
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
> Space Science and Eng. Center
> ph:  608.262.2759
>
>

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Tom Whittaker
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Space Science and Eng. Center
ph:  608.262.2759