Re: XEyes works, but everything else is a blank white box

In a message dated 4/12/2008 11:44:38 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
gerry.creager_at_tamu.edu writes:

Howdy, Williamm

Valkhorn_at_aol.com wrote:
> I'm using Ubuntu Server 64 bit version 7.10.

You do have NCAR Graphics and netcdf installed, right?
NCAR yes, netcdf no as I wasn't aware I even needed it (if it's not in the
documentation I won't tend to see it).

> How do you run the display interactively or instrument print statements
> to figure out where its going?

First, are you on the system you want to run NCL on? As in, sitting at
the console? I'm assuming the answer is "yes" as you were playing with
Xeyes.
Yes I'm on the system I want to run NCL on. I'm technically not at the
computer since its about 10 feet away but I'm VNC'ed into it and I am root on the
machine.

If that's the case, from a command line, execute the program without a
script file to execute, and you'll be in interactive mode. Then, you
can cut'n'paste lines in, and watch for errors.
Fancy. Let me try that.
 
OK. I've gotten no errors. Still displays a white square I'm afraid.

instrumenting with prints is similar to the good old days (Fortran, for
me). See the function at
_http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/print.shtml_
(http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/print.shtml)

> Sorry I'm new to NCAR (I'm not a new programmer though) so I'm still
> learning how this thing works.

I'd say, Welcone, but I'm at texas a&m... and I'm an old programmer
(maybe older than Dennis:-).
Thanks for the welcome. I've wanted to use this program for a while... I
just can't seem to get past this hurdle here to actually see any output.
 
By the way, I assume there's a way to save the output to a file correct?
Maybe I could try that somewhere.
 
-William

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