Re: [Hdf-forum] HFDView 2.7 and Packet tables

2011-04-07 Thread Peter Cao
Hi Roger, We have fixed the crash at our current hdf-java source repository. I think you used H5Tvlen_create(H5T_C_S1) to create variable length strings in the packet table, which may cause problems. A better way to create variable length strings is to use H5T_C_S1 directly, e.g. int

Re: [Hdf-forum] HFDView 2.7 and Packet tables

2011-04-07 Thread Roger Martin
Thank you, Peter! And you're right; I did use the H5Tvlen_create(H5T_C_S1). I'll switch to your better way. This may also help out python scripting using h5py/numpy on these same packet tables. I'm having good success with hdf5 not only with data but as the persistence bridge between

Re: [Hdf-forum] HFDView 2.7 and Packet tables

2011-04-07 Thread Peter Cao
Roger, FYI: we are going to add more information to the reference manual for H5Tvlen_create() so that users will not be confused. Thanks --pc On 4/7/2011 4:32 PM, Roger Martin wrote: Thank you, Peter! And you're right; I did use the H5Tvlen_create(H5T_C_S1). I'll switch to your

Re: [Hdf-forum] HFDView 2.7 and Packet tables

2011-04-06 Thread Peter Cao
Roger, thank you for reporting the problem. we will take a look at it. --pc On 4/6/2011 3:04 PM, Roger Martin wrote: Hi, Running hdf5-1.8.6 with the downloaded HDFView 2.7 binary for linux-x86_64 on CentOS 5.4 as well as the HDFView 2.7 src compiled locally. Am seeing a crash while opening