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20030409: On PC-Linux... IDV-Omni works (for the 1st time) -- To Don Murray from John McCormick

>From: John McCormick <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200304092234.h39MY67U022037 IDV beta6a omni control

Hi John-

>An interesting note... I'm logged into my PC (on the linux side) and installed
>  
>the IDV (beta-6) successfully .... A couple of things that I noticed was that 
>the Omni Control (Display) seemed to work okay whereas on the PC-windows 
>side, it would just "disappear" as soon as I attempted to "click on" or 
>"select" the Omni button...  (I'll verify the "Omni Behavior" on the windows 
>side one more time since it is the first time that I've installed beta-6 and 
>also unzipped the "idv_jars" file correctly as opposed to in the past)... 
>Probably, a good idea before I go too far with my reporting here...).... But 
>one thing for sure, it is the first time at all that I've gotten improved 
>behavior with respect to invoking the "Omni-Control" mode of IDV... Good!..
>Let me go ahead with the same test on the windows side.... John

>From:    "John McCormick" <address@hidden>
> Subject: (Attempting to invoke IDV in the Omni-Control Mode on Windows --  
> FYI,
>      *** unsuccessful... )... To Don Murray from John McCormick 

> Hello Don ...back on the PC windows side now and I just went ahead and in
> the same exact
> condition (ie. input files and choice of variable) on the windows side, I
> just attempted to try to
> get into the Omni-Control Mode, and the IDV windows "disappeared" (or
> probably "crashed"
> perhaps?) .... Again, Don, this information is FYI as you may or may not
> have known about it
> before.... it's just a good thing to know with respect to the different OS
> environments: ("linux"
> and "MS-Windows")...

I've tried the Omni control here on windows and Linux and it works
fine.  What type of data are you using (grids or metar or ....)?
Also, what type of graphics card do you have on your windows machine?
Is the driver up to date?  Sometimes old drivers can cause weird
problems with Java 3D.

Don Murray
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