Great to hear you're making such good progress. You can solve
your problem like this:
RealType X = RealType.getRealTypeByName("X");
if (X == null) X = new RealType("X",null,null);
Whether wisely or not, VisAD maintains a Vector of all RealTypes
constructed on a JVM and will not allow duplicate names [however,
duplicates can occur if a RealType of the same name is constructed
on another JVM and passed by copy (i.e., Serialized via RMI) to
this JVM]. RealType.getRealTypeByName will return any RealType
previously constructed on this JVM with a given name.
Good luck,
Bill
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Bill Hibbard, SSEC, 1225 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706
whibbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 608-263-4427 fax: 608-263-6738
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html
"kill cross-platform Java by growing the polluted Java market"
- from an internal Microsoft planning document
