NewColourFromPercent Error

[Syngress]

Hi,

After upgrading my weathermap from 0.941 to 0.96a I am seeing the below error in my logs on occasion...

07/07/2009 09:25:10 AM - WEATHERMAP: Poller[0] WARNING: [Map 24] Foundry Network: NewColourFromPercent: Scale DEFAULT doesn't include 0.0099416954208% while drawing item ps-1.CHC2-ps-3.CHC2 [WMWARN29]

Any ideas?

Mike

[Howie]

The scale called DEFAULT doesn't have a line that covers percntages from 0 to 1. What should this message have said, that would explain this better? That's a serious question... several people have asked
about this one, and I thought it was obvious, but I guess not.

[Syngress]

Hi Howie,

In our 0.941 config files we didn't have a 0 1 - we had a 0.01 10 0 255 0

This meant that any link that had a small amount of traffic was green, and any link with no traffic was automatically white.

I would guess something has been update between 0.941 & 0.96a so I have now amended our configs and everything is ok

The log message does make sense, its just it seemed by default in 0.941 the link would have been white (or no fill).

Thanks

Mike

[Howie]

Hi Howie,

In our 0.941 config files we didn't have a 0 1 - we had a 0.01 10 0 255 0

This meant that any link that had a small amount of traffic was green, and any link with no traffic was automatically white.

I would guess something has been update between 0.941 & 0.96a so I have now amended our configs and everything is ok

The log message does make sense, its just it seemed by default in 0.941 the link would have been white (or no fill).

Thanks

Mike

Yep - I did add that warning in 0.96. I also added a SET variable to disable it I have just tweaked the message slightly for 0.97, too.

[zorrosam]

please how we can disable this fastidious log?

or solving the conflict?

thanks

[Howie]

please how we can disable this fastidious log?

or solving the conflict?

thanks

It's not *that* fastidious. You have a scale which doesn't cover the data that you have. So make it cover it!

Usually, it's:

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SCALE DEFAULT 0 1 255 255 255

So that there's a colour defined for 0-1%. Prior to 0.96, the DEFAULT scale that weathermap would insert for you had this problem, which is probably why you have it.

OR, you can disable the warning instead with:

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SET nowarn_scalemisses 1

in the top section of the map config file.

[zorrosam]

thanks my friend.

i have solved the problem and understand the new variable ... without set on disable it.

bye

sam

[jwhitaker]

Must the scale entry be 0-1 to cover a percent of 0.x? I have an entry of 0-20 for the bottom of the scale, yet still see the warning for data between 0 and 1.

[Howie]

Must the scale entry be 0-1 to cover a percent of 0.x? I have an entry of 0-20 for the bottom of the scale, yet still see the warning for data between 0 and 1.

No... yours should work too. Could you paste your scale lines and the warning please?

[jwhitaker]

Oops I think this was user error. I had copied an example scale that started with 1-10 and eventually changed it to 0, but during that period the log was showing a clip of 0.xxx to 1. I now have a scale entry of 0-10 and it seems to be working just fine, including clipping negative percentages from an aggregate to 0. Thanks!