Show model button on vstar 2.18.0

Affiliation

American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)

Mon, 01/09/2017 - 21:01

Hi all,
I'm running Vstar 2.18.0 under linux Ubuntu 16.04.
I just did try to reproduce and recreate the procedure used in Vstar Manual under the Period Analysis topicc. I did load the data of eta Aql from JD 2455695.8431 to 2456419.8604, as indicated on page 59 and performed a DCDFT standard scan on all Visual observations.
When I obtained the top hits, I clicked the "Find Harmonics" then "Create Model" using the 4 harmonics found ( page 65) and then "new phase plot".

When I select Analysis-->model-->select-->show model nothing happens, but if I create a polinomial fit everything seems to work properly ( the "Model information" window opens a and I can see model details).

Any suggestion?

Simone
SSIM

David Benn

Affiliation

Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)

Tue, 01/17/2017 - 13:31

Replicating your result

Hi Simone

Apologies for the delay.

I'm trying to replicate your result but cannot at the moment.

Do you see any errors in the shell from which VStar.sh is invoked?

When creating the model, did you select 4 harmonics from the drop down menu? That seems to be what you said you did.

I have attached a screenshot of what I see (also below) with 2.18.0 on Mac OS X. Perhaps that will provide some clues.

What version of Java is installed?

David

dornick

Affiliation

American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)

Tue, 01/17/2017 - 16:17

Replicating your result

Hi David,

thanks for the reply

I see exactly what you see except for the last window ( Model Information) . It only works with polynomial fit..

I tried the same analysis on my laptop ( Win 7).... same result.

Here is the result when I look for java version:

simone@simone-EJ178AA-ABZ-t3240-it:~$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_111"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_111-b14)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.111-b14, mixed mode)

Seems to be ok...

dornick

Affiliation

American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)

Tue, 01/17/2017 - 19:43

Replicating your result

I tried uninsitall and reinstall java....nothing.

The only error message I get is on Vstar launch : libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile

Simone

David Benn

Affiliation

Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)

Wed, 01/18/2017 - 11:43

Others?

Hi Simone

I'm trying to think what might be causing this.

Can others on the list reproduce this problem with 2.18.0 on Linux or any other OS?

David

dornick

Affiliation

American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)

Thu, 01/19/2017 - 20:07

Others?

Nothing....

I updated the OS to ubuntu 16.10, no result.

Then tried on ubuntu 15.04, both with Orcle Java JRE and Open JDK.... nothing

Simone

dornick

Affiliation

American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)

Fri, 01/20/2017 - 15:23

Others?

Well, I just tried Vstar in another computer, Windows XP Pro, Oracle Java 7.... extactly the same problem: show model button works only with polinomial fit and not with Fourier analysis. Mybe I should try to rebuild fronm source code on my computer...but I have no idea how to do it.

Simone

David Benn

Affiliation

Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)

Sat, 01/21/2017 - 06:44

Windows, building

Hi Simone

I'll try to reproduce this on one of a Windows laptop I have access to. Anyone else want to bite? :)

This is odd because we know that feature has been working with 2.18.0 with various OSes, e.g. during the last VStar course, on my Mac recently etc.

You are welcome to rebuild it but it should not be necessary. See ReadMe.txt and extlib/ReadMe.txt that come with the full distribution on SouceForge. I use Ant to build.

David

Robert Jenkins

Affiliation

Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)

Tue, 02/28/2017 - 23:42

VStar error

Hi David and Simone

I have tried to replicate the error following Simone's instructions and I cannot replicate it. VStar is working as expected. I even tried opening VStar as a AAVSO member and as guest (just in c ase there was a difference) and it did not appear to make any difference.

Sorry I cannot be of more help.

Robert

David Benn

Affiliation

Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)

Wed, 03/01/2017 - 13:05

Thanks

Thanks for that Robert.

I wonder whether there's a step Simone may inadvertently be missing?

David

dornick

Affiliation

American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)

Mon, 03/06/2017 - 17:37

Show model button on vstar

Well, I tried again.

Loaded data set for eta Aql from JD 2455695.8431 to 2456419.8604, then made a phase plot, a DCDFT standard scan and created a model with the top hit period and 4 harmonics, then a new phase plot. ...I still can't see the model data. My system is configured to use comma instead period as decimal separator, but I don't think it's important, because everything else works properly.

..... fortunately I still can use R for analysis...

David Benn

Affiliation

Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)

Mon, 03/06/2017 - 20:38

Locale

Okay, that's useful information.

So far, only people with English locale have posted about not being able to reproduce what you see. Perhaps there's a localisation related bug. We've seen that before.

Can anyone on the list with a non-English locale reproduce this? Preferably Italian, but at least German will use commas instead of periods as decimal points. Others here have helped with locale related bugs and testing.

David

dornick

Affiliation

American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)

Wed, 03/08/2017 - 19:55

Vstar show model button

Ok, i tried changing language and numeric settings without success...

I also ran Vstar on a win XP machine, using english as default language and period as decimal separato...no success.

Also downloaded Vstar from SourceForge and ran in Win XP via the MS-DOS batch file. Here is a text file with the output I obtain on the console , hope it helps....I'm not a programmer , so I dont' know what it means. Le last part of the file is the one i see when I click the "show model" button.

Simone

David Benn

Affiliation

Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)

Thu, 03/09/2017 - 14:13

Numeric format exception

Excellent, thanks Simone! This helps a great deal. I'll get back to you ASAP.

David

David Benn

Affiliation

Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)

Thu, 03/09/2017 - 14:42

Bug ticket

Hi Simone

I've created https://sourceforge.net/p/vstar/bugs-and-features/560/ to capture this as a high priority bug.

You weren't going crazy. This really is a bug.

Would you be willing to test a development version once I think I've fixed this?

David

ps - apologies if I seemed too skeptical

David Benn

Affiliation

Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSAU)

Tue, 03/14/2017 - 22:05

Implemented locale preferences and reproduced the problem

Hi Simone

An update on progress. I've implemented locale selection preferences, so that now you can change the locale at run-time via the Preferences dialog and without changing your operating system's preferences. Any locale change will be isolated to VStar.

So I set my locale to French, German and others to get the comma-delimited numbers behaviour and I have reproduced the error you saw. I'll now work on the fix and test it.

Having locale preferences has two benefits:

it allows me to more easily reproduce problems that me be localisation related;
it allows a VStar user to change to a non-European locale if that's what they prefer or if they see problems when using a non-English locale.

Stay tuned.

David