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In article <fskmjm.100@puknet.puk.ac.za>, fskmjm@puknet.puk.ac.za says... > > How can I interrupt the PLOT procedure without crashing the program, > so that I don't sometimes have to wait several minutes for a plot to > finish? I'm using IDL under Windows, and Ctrl-C doesn't make any > impression while PLOT is running. Sorry, I don't think you can interrupt PLOT. Under Windows' cooperative multi-tasking, programs have to be explicitly written to yield control of the CPU, and the IDL built-in routines don't seem to do this. It is possible (with minimal effort) to write IDL procedures so that they can be interrupted--contact me if you want to know how. But this only lets you interrupt IDL between commands, not during them. -- ============================================================ == Mark Hadfield hadfield@storm.greta.cri.nz NIWA (Taihoro Nukurangi) NIWA.GRETA:HADFIELD Wellington, New Zealand
In <3gmba2$kjc@zephyr.grace.cri.nz>, hadfield@storm.greta.cri.nz (Mark Hadfield) writes: > In article <fskmjm.100@puknet.puk.ac.za>, fskmjm@puknet.puk.ac.za says... >> >> How can I interrupt the PLOT procedure without crashing the program, >> so that I don't sometimes have to wait several minutes for a plot to >> finish? I'm using IDL under Windows, and Ctrl-C doesn't make any >> impression while PLOT is running. > > Sorry, I don't think you can interrupt PLOT. Under Windows' cooperative > multi-tasking, programs have to be explicitly written to yield control > of the CPU, and the IDL built-in routines don't seem to do this. > > It is possible (with minimal effort) to write IDL procedures so that they > can be interrupted--contact me if you want to know how. But this only lets > you interrupt IDL between commands, not during them. > Could you describe what you mean by writing procedures so that they can be interrupted? -Darren Orbach > ============================================================ == > Mark Hadfield hadfield@storm.greta.cri.nz > NIWA (Taihoro Nukurangi) NIWA.GRETA:HADFIELD > Wellington, New Zealand >