Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado
IDL 6.3 Intel in Mac + IDLWAVE + graphics = CRASH
Dear All, IDL 6.3 Intel native is running fine when called from the Xterminal or from idlde. However, when run from IDLWAVE it crashes (better implodes and collapses) whenever a graphic command is issued. It used to be fine with IDL 6.2. I have tried setting DISPLAY equal to both ":0.0" an ":0", in .bashrc and in .MacOSX/environment.plist. Curiosly, if Xwindows is not running it looks for it appropriately, % PLOT: Unable to connect to X Windows display: :0.0 % PLOT: Unable to open X Windows display. Is your DISPLAY environment variable set correctly? but when it is running it collapses on every graphic command. Then when IDL is recalled, it displays a bus error from the previous session. If I enquire the system from the xterminal within IDL I get IDL> $env TERM=xterm DISPLAY=:0.0 from IDWAVE, first, I need to call twice the idl shell (C-c C-s is undefined on first call), then the environment variables are different: IDL> $env TERM=dumb there is no DISPLAY variable Any help in solving this is much appreciated. all the best, Javier IDL 6.3 for Mac OS X for Intel, last release (2 days ago) MacBook Pro Intel duo OS X 10.4.7 GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 IDLWAVE 6.0