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

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

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Marco Comparato wrote:

> Mark Taylor wrote:
> > This is to announce the release of TOPCAT v2.1.
> > 
> > Headline enhancements since the last advertised release (v2.0) are:
> > 
> >    - Extensive support for the PLASTIC tool interoperability protocol
> >    - New stacked line plot window
> > 
> > plus a bunch of other stuff, described in detail at
> > http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/sun253/versions.html
> > 
> > Find it as usual at
> > 
> >     http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I got some problems with Topcat too:(
> 
> 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).
> 

> 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).

Marco,

if I run TOPCAT on Windows it sends, for instance, 
ivo://votech.org/votable/loadFromURL messages with a url argument that
looks like this:

   file://localhost/C:/DOCUME~1/Mark/LOCALS~1/Temp/plastic7533.vot

Is this what you're talking about?  Windows seems to understand
filenames/URLs in that format, in that if I type that URL into the 
location box of Internet Explorer, it picks up the file.
(For java-aware onlookers, this is the kind of File that you get
from File.createTempFile() methods.)

If that's what you're talking about, then I don't see anything that
needs to be fixed.  If I'm missing the point (quite possible as I
know next to nothing about windows) then please clarify.

Mark

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