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Re: Error in graphics webinar example [message #72462] Thu, 09 September 2010 09:40
chris_torrence@NOSPAM is currently offline  chris_torrence@NOSPAM
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On Sep 9, 4:41 am, jkeller <jkel...@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> I watched the Webinar on IDL 8 Graphics yesterday and as a Direct
> Graphics user for some years now, I was quite impressed. So I started
> to try out the examples in my IDL 8 demo version to show them to some
> collaegues.
>
> However, I encountered an error in the ocean wind field program at the
> point where the map plot should be created:
>
> % Unable to concatenate variables because the dimensions do not agree:
> <STRING   ('ELLIPSOID')>.
>
> I made a simple demo program with just one line of code to create a
> map. The error was the same as before. Other projection types did not
> help it.
>
> Any information on this? I have to convince some people to upgrade our
> licences to 8.0!
>
> Sincerely,
> Jan

Hi Jan,

It sounds like it might be a path issue. Can you do a "print,!path"
and make sure that you are not picking up the IDL path from an older
version? Perhaps you have an IDL_PATH environment variable set?

Hope this helps.

Chris
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