Re: [ferret_users] wHDF not supported on this platform

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ryo,
Well this is because long ago there were some tools that let us write a file type "hdf movie". 

http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/documentation/users-guide/animations-gif-images/OVERVIEW

The default for the FRAME command when issued with no argument was the HDF format. However the library that gave us this capability hasn't been available in quite a while, and so for recent versions of Ferret we've just written this message on a FRAME with no argument. You're probably right to suggest that that it would be better to do something different; perhaps issue a note on the first instance and do nothing.

I don't have a suggestion about flickering when animating on the fly  -- anyone else have an idea??

Ansley


On 6/30/2010 2:30 PM, Ryo Furue wrote:

Hi Ferret users,

Ferret 6.61 exits with error "wHDF not supported on this platform".

  bash$ ferret
          NOAA/PMEL TMAP
          FERRET v6.61  
          Linux rh5 (gfortran) 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 - 04/28/10
          30-Jun-10 11:18     
  yes? set data levitus_climatology
  yes? fill/l=1/k=1 temp
  yes? frame
  wHDF not supported on this platform
  bash$

I'm reporting this mainly as an instance of Ferret "crash".
A FRAME command without qualifiers isn't terribly important
to me.  I was just using it as a means of reducing the
flickering of on-the-fly animation:

  yes? repeat/l=1:120 (fill/l=1/k=1 temp)        !! flickers.
  yes? repeat/l=1:120 (fill/l=1/k=1 temp; frame) !! Easier to see.

(Is there an alternative?)

Regards,
Ryo