setting view point

[hproe]

Hi -

I am not sure whether this is a bug or my problem. I have tried to set the view point of a panel in this way (code snippet):

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 panel=buildWindow(height=600,width=600,panelTypes=GLOBE)
 panel(0).setViewpoint('Asia')

This issues the following message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in <modules>
File "", line nn, in code
TypeError: 'list' object is not callable

setViewpoint() is not working with panel type MAP either.

An additional question. Would it be possible to navigate the panel (both MAP and GLOBE) explicitly through coordinates etc, without having to define a view point beforehand?

HP

[bobc]

Hi HP -

For your error message you are seeing with setViewpoint, does it help if you use square brackets after 'panel' instead of parentheses?

Ex:
not: panel(0).setViewpoint('Asia')
but... panel[0].setViewpoint('Asia')

Thanks -
Bob Carp

[bobc]

Hi again HP -

As for the second part of your post:

An additional question. Would it be possible to navigate the panel (both MAP and GLOBE) explicitly through coordinates etc, without having to define a view point beforehand?

I believe setCenter would work well for you. This allows you to define latitude, longitude and scale (zoom) values for where to center your display. For example:

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panel=buildWindow(height=800,width=800,panelTypes=GLOBE)
panel[0].setCenter(lat=44,lon=-89,scale=15)

... will build a window, and canter the display at 44/-89 zoomed in. Note that this setCenter is working well in the most recent nightly (there had been an issue where the display didn't center correctly from the lat/lon entered in setCenter).

If this doesn't satisfy your request, please let us know.

Thanks -
Bob Carp

[hproe]

Many thanks Bob. It is the square brackets! And the setCenter() is welcome as well. Sorry, I should have recalled these details.

HP