McIDAS-V Support Forums

This branch of the forums is designed to act as a repository for user functions. Note that these functions have not been tested by McIDAS User Services and therefore they are not fully-supported. However, some may find them to be useful for their work. As a recommendation, please include some genera...

The newest version of McIDAS-V, version 1.4, is now available for free download from the McIDAS-V Website ! For current McIDAS-V users, notable changes since the previous version (1.3) include: - Continued development of Jython scripting tools - Added the ability to add a display unit to the color s...

Hi henryb,

Just a note that we moved this topic from the General Questions forum to the Scripting forum.
(You can find a listing of all the forums on the McIDAS-V Support Forums home page - http://mcidas.ssec.wisc.edu/forums/.)

Hi Boris-

I'm glad you've found the issue. I just wanted to let you know I moved this topic to the Bugs forum under User Topics from the User submission/Bundle area.

Thanks, Jay

Hi Michele- I talked with our system programmer and he thought running with a proxy should still work correctly. -V does a version check each time it is started, we'd like to see if that is causing a problem. You can turn this check off in the user preferences, we'd like you to turn it off and see i...

Online registration is now available for the 2013 McIDAS Users' Group (MUG) Meeting to be held 9-12 September 2013 in Madison, Wisconsin. The registration form and meeting information can be found on the the MUG Meeting webpage: m The registration deadline is 15 July 2013. The planned schedule is fo...

This has been fixed with the release of McIDAS-V version 1.3.

The newest version of McIDAS-V, version 1.3, is now available for free download from the McIDAS-V Website ! For current McIDAS-V users, notable changes since the previous version (1.2) include: - Updated netCDF-Java library to version 4.3.16; see "Latest netCDF-Java Version" section in ful...

Since the release of McIDAS-V version 1.2 in 2012, there has been a suite of fully supported Jython scripting tools. The functions and methods in this suite can be used to load and display data, manipulate the display, and save images. This allows the user to automatically process data and generate ...

Jon added code to createLayer to now run on the Event Dispatch Thread. The change will be in the next nightly build. He's also working on something to reset the session, so that objects that are no longer needed will be eligible for garbage collection.