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>From: Daniel Schaffer <address@hidden> >Organization: NOAA/OAR/Earth Systems Research Lab >Keywords: 200512131734.jBDHYK7s014203 IDV Java 3D Hi Dan- >When I bring up IDV with the Java Web Start, I am able to display >catalogued fields such as in the NCEP RUC2 40km CONUS file just fine. > >However, if I download the Windows version of IDV and start it up >with java -jar idv.jar > >then when I try to create a display of the same fields, I get the following >error message: > >An error has occurred. >ControlDescriptor. >Creating Display >javax/vecmath/Tuple3f. This indicates that you don't have Java 3D installed on the version of Java that is being used. The Web Start version installs Java 3D automatically. I'd recommend using the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that comes with the InstallAnywhere installer which has Java 3D included. Then use the runIDV.bat script to start up the IDV which uses the java in the jre/bin directory. >I'm using Windows XP. > >I tried both java 1.5 and Java 1.4.2. > >My colleague, Jeff Smith observed the same behavior. > >Is it possible that the IDV versions are not in sync with each other? The InstallAnywhere version of IDV does not know about the java resources that the Web Start version uses. Don Murray NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.