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Re: A rant: features vs. programming features [message #10270]

Mon, 03 November 1997 00:00

Andy Loughe
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Registered: November 1995

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Joseph B. Gurman wrote:
>
> I was wondering whether anyone else is has the impression that I do of
> IDL 5: that it makes programming many things easier, and certainly niftier
> (at least if OOP is your idea of nifty), but it hasn't added much in the
> way of real functionality.
>
> One area of functionality that I thought was screaming for attention
> was the production of Web-based material, specifically:
>
> � an /INTERLACED keyword for WRITE_GIF,
>
> � a WRITE_GIF_MOVIE routine, with keywords for pause length and repeats,
>
> � a WRITE_MPEG routine,
>
> � a WRITE_SOUND routine (with AIFF and WAVE options),
>
> � a WRITE_QUICKTIME routine, and
>
> � maybe even WRITE_AVI.

<snip>

Amen, Brother!
I could have used each of these routines last month!

I am pleased, though, that write_gif and write_pict exist within IDL.

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