ElVis Launcher

The ElVis launcher is a helper application to handle installing and running ElVis. Think of it as a super-powerful desktop shortcut:  

1.  Checks Java version on your computer.

2.  Downloads & installs ElVis.

3.  Checks for new versions of ElVis.

4.  Runs ElVis with more memory.


Download it here for Mac and Linux!
Mac:  Double click on ElVisLauncher.jar to get started.
Linux:  From a command line, enter:  java -jar ElVisLauncher.jar

... or, if you're using Internet Explorer on Windows, download the launcher in a zip file here.
Then extract ElVisLauncher.jar from the zip file and double click on it to run it.

This first time you run the launcher it will create an Elvis folder in your home folder.  The launcher will install the software and run ElVis.  Whenever you want to run ElVis again, just double click on ElVisLauncher.jar and it will run ElVis with the additional memory you specified.  You can move ElVisLauncher.jar into the Elvis folder to keep it organized in one place.

Files in the Elvis directory:
    settings.props - ElVis stores some of your most recent settings for some operations in this file.
    statuslog_N where N varies from 0 to 9 - Some session and debugging information is stored in this file.  A new file is written each time you exit.  The file numbers are recycled so you can have log files for the last 10 times that you ran the program.
    xml - template files that accompany netcdf files that have been downloaded from URLs.
    data directory - netcdf files that have been downloaded from URLs.