Just to clarify, arrays can contain doubles, in general. However, the array for a positions component can only be float.
When I ran into Randall's situation in the past, I took the approach he was trying to avoid... David Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@opendx.watson.ibm.com on 09/20/2000 12:25:13 PM Please respond to [email protected] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] cc: Subject: Re: [opendx-users] Field positions with "type double" DX does not currently support double positions only float. David >Another interesting problem. To keep things simple, I need 8-16 >significant digits in my field positions. The logical choice is to change >the input field positions to "type double". > >The docs say it should work, but OpenDX's .dx loader generates: > > "Bad type: bad positions/box type in bounding box" > >(For example, try loading the attached .dx file.) > >Am I doing this wrong? If not, is this just a bug in the parser, or does >dxexec not really support double positions? > >I can resort to local dynamic offsets and de-offsets, but if DX supports >double positions I'd rather not complicate things unnecessarily. > >Thanks, > >Randy > >-- >Randall Hopper (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >EPA Scientific Visualization Center >US EPA MD/24 ERC-1A; RTP, NC 27711 > >Attachment converted: Powder1:double-gridpositions.dx (TEXT/R*ch) (0001EE06) -- ............................................................................. David L. Thompson The University of Montana mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science Department http://www.cs.umt.edu/u/dthompsn Missoula, MT 59812 Work Phone : (406)257-8530
