20030604: Class ColorScale (cont.)

> > To: address@hidden
> > From: "Cicero A. W. Zandonna" <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: 20030603: Class ColorScale
> > Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> > Keywords: 200306041441.h54Ef5Ld018500

Hi Cicero-

> Thanks for the answer, this explains others divergences betwen code and 
> doc too.

Sorry about this.  Our class structure is in flux as we delete
obsolete code.  Where are the docs you are looking at - on the
web or from metapps_doc.jar?

> But the "ucar.unidata.ui.ColorTableEditor" still isn't the class I am 
> looking for. I want to use the component "color legend bar" as it is 
> called in the IDV's user guide. That little scale at the botton of the 
> display. Please tell me which class this is.

The class is ucar.unidata.idv.control.ColorTableWidget

> I would like to report a little bug too (and sugest how to solve it):
>
> In the setMinMax() method of the "ucar.unidata.ui.ColorTableCanvas" 
> class a casting is done:
>
> double d = new Double (min).doubleValue ();
>
> This might work very well in US and other countrys were the decimal 
> separator is the dot ".". But here in Brasil and some other places (most 
> of the countrys)  the comma "," is used.
>
> When the range textFields are generated the "format(double value)" 
> method of the "ucar.unidata.util.Misc" class is called, and the 
> formating is done "right" :
>
> getDecimalFormat (value).format (value)"
>
> An in Brasil the string generated is for example: 100,00
>
> So in the way back (parsing) the "java.text.DecimalFormat" class should 
> be used to. Or an exception accurs, like in the sceenshot I am sending.
>
> I dont know if I was sufficiency clear. Its a little dificult to explain 
> something in another language. Let me know if somethig is not 
> understood. And don't forget the question I made up there.

Thanks for reporting this.  I'll look into it and get back to
you.

Don
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