<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Jie,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ll second what Suoqing said about yt, but as far as your specific issue, it looks like the real issue is that you do not have an X server running that xflash can connect to. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It also appears you are running on Windows—I can’t vouch for whether or not the FLASH IDL routines will work correctly on Windows. A good X server for Windows is Xming:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/" class="">http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">yt is a far better approach to visualizing FLASH data than fidlr, which is very outdated. If you want a good introduction to plotting with the yt project, I’d check out this page:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://yt-project.org/doc/visualizing/plots.html" class="">http://yt-project.org/doc/visualizing/plots.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please do not hesitate to ask us for more help on these matters. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 13, 2015, at 2:54 AM, Suoqing Ji <<a href="mailto:suoqing@physics.ucsb.edu" class="">suoqing@physics.ucsb.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Jie,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you would like to analyze FLASH output, personally I might recommend yt (<a href="http://yt-project.org/" class="">http://yt-project.org</a>, a Python package) and VisIt (<a href="https://wci.llnl.gov/simulation/computer-codes/visit/downloads" class="">https://wci.llnl.gov/simulation/computer-codes/visit/downloads</a>).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Especially, if you have any questions on yt, please do not hesitate to shoot me emails offline.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 12, 2015, at 11:37 PM, jie-zhan14 <<a href="mailto:jie-zhan14@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn" class="">jie-zhan14@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><stationery style="font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="">Dear FALSH Users,</div><div class="">I tried to run an example of Sedov problem follow the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class=""><strong class="">FLASH User's Guide</strong></em>, and I got some output files like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class=""><strong class="">sedov_hdf5_chk 000*</strong></em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em class=""><strong class="">sedov_hdf5_plt_cnt_000*,</strong></em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> but I can't examine them in IDL using xflash3.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div class="">I can open the file with xflash3, but nothing happened when I click the 'Plot' button. And the IDL gave a message as below:</div><div class=""><span id="cid:flashmail$QODUIjLy$1444718230__0@nmmp" class=""><Clip(10-13-14-32-34).png></span></div><div class="">I don't know what's going wrong. I hope someone can help me.</div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">Jie Zhang </div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(192, 192, 192);" class=""><div align="left" class="">2015-10-13</div><hr id="SignNameHR" align="left" style="border-top-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); border-width: 1px 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; height: 1px; width: 122px;" class=""><span id="_FlashSignName" class="">jie-zhan14</span></div></stationery></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>