[Plastic-devs] Re: [Plastic-user] TOPCAT v2.1 release

[Mark T. <m.b...@br...>]

Hi Marco,

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Marco Comparato wrote:
 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I got some problems with Topcat too:(

sorry about that.
 
> I don't receive showObjects messages from your application. It should
> send this messages when sending subsets, am I wrong? It works fine with
> the loadFromURL message (I mean when it loads a votable).

Yes, you're right, there seems to be a problem with sending this
message to XML-RPC clients (java RMI ones are OK).  I will try to
track it down.

> Directory names are another issue, if a directory name is longer than 8
> chars it is renamed to fit the 8.3 file name format. Do I have to handle
> that from my side? I get long names from other application (Aladin and
> XMDV).

Yuk.  I haven't tested on Windows so I've never seen that before.
I'll try to work out what/why/when, but can't do it straight away
since I don't have a Windows machine to hand.  In the mean time if
this sounds like familiar behaviour to any Windows/Java people out
there advice would be gratefully received.

Mark

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