| Re: problems with XInterAnimate [message #10959] |
Fri, 30 January 1998 00:00 |
Martin Schultz
Messages: 515
Registered: August 1997
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David Fanning wrote:
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> Martin Schultz (mgs@io.harvard.edu) writes:
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>> this time I am on the questioning side again: When I run the
>> attached program on our IBM 39H with AIX 4.1, I receive the error
>> message
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>> % X windows protocol error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window
>> parameter).
>>
[...]
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> In my experience, this kind of thing has to do with problems with
> the animation loop. For example, here you set up the animation
> array and suggest that you have 11 frames.
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>> ; set up animation
>> XInterAnimate,set=[900,850,11],/cycle,/track, $
>> title='Trajectory cloud chasing'
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> But here you only fill up 10 of the frames.
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>> ; loop through satellite images and plot composite image
>> ; use only 1 daily visible image for now
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>> for i=0,9 do begin
>> sday = string(jday-(i+1)/2,format='(i3.3)')
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> I think the 11th frame is pointing to an invalid pixmap. :-)
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> Cheers,
>
> David
>
Thanks David !! It works ! (although I am sure I had the correct number
of frames in a previous try. So, I guess, I must have messed something
up while developing the program - all these unexpected stops; perhaps
XInterAnimate kept on reserving memory but never got a chance to release
it. Who knows. If you'd like to take a look at the result [I managed to
impress some colleagues with the capabilities of IDL], you can download
an mpeg movie from our anonymous ftp site:
ftp io.harvard.edu
cd pub/exchange/mgs
bin
get lpnox1101.mpeg
quit
;-)
Martin.
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Dr. Martin Schultz
Department for Earth&Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
186 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA-02138, USA
phone: (617)-496-8318
fax : (617)-495-4551
e-mail: mgs@io.harvard.edu
IDL-homepage: http://www-as.harvard.edu/people/staff/mgs/idl/
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| Re: problems with XInterAnimate [message #10976 is a reply to message #10959] |
Wed, 28 January 1998 00:00  |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Martin Schultz (mgs@io.harvard.edu) writes:
> this time I am on the questioning side again: When I run the
> attached program on our IBM 39H with AIX 4.1, I receive the error
> message
>
> % X windows protocol error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window
> parameter).
>
> right at the very end, i.e. all the pixmaps have been created and
> loaded into XInterAnimate, and the animator window already appears
> on the screen. However, no image is displayed, and IDL does not
> react to any keystroke or mouseclick any more (except Ctrl-Z after
> which I have to kill it).
>
> If anyone has experience with this error message, please let me know.
In my experience, this kind of thing has to do with problems with
the animation loop. For example, here you set up the animation
array and suggest that you have 11 frames.
> ; set up animation
> XInterAnimate,set=[900,850,11],/cycle,/track, $
> title='Trajectory cloud chasing'
But here you only fill up 10 of the frames.
> ; loop through satellite images and plot composite image
> ; use only 1 daily visible image for now
>
> for i=0,9 do begin
> sday = string(jday-(i+1)/2,format='(i3.3)')
I think the 11th frame is pointing to an invalid pixmap. :-)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
Phone: 970-221-0438
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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