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Re: IDL or PV~Wave? [message #1030 is a reply to message #1028]

Mon, 24 May 1993 08:41

alan
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Registered: January 1993

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In article <1993May21.164403.1583@ll.mit.edu> knight@ll.mit.edu (Fred Knight) writes:
> Here are some features added to IDL since v2.1 that I particularly like:
>
> ---integrated support for HDF, CDF, and netCDF.
> ---on-line help in a separate window
> ---IOCTL to access low-level file operations
> ---logarithm Z axis for surface plots
> ---anonymous structures
> ---create_struct (v3.1)
> ---reads: like readf only from an IDL variable instead of from a file
> ---device independent screen preview in EPSI format to see IDL plot in desktop publishing progams
> ---integrated TIFF and GIF support
> ---format capability for tick labels on plots
>
> Are there PV~WAVE equivalents?

Not that I know of. It's hard to know what some of these things are (e.g.,
anonymous structures). The question really is, what do you need? Wave has
Motif lookalike functions that allow one to develop Motif GUIs very rapidly.
In addition to their regular widgets. And I find the Wave widgets easier to
use. Wave doesn't crash on me, locking up my workstation. Perhaps the
stuff you've cited is critical to other people, but for me Wave offers the
right combination of reliability and flexibility (and polish) that I need.
I recommend it enthusiastically.
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		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: pendleton on Tue, 25 May 1993 09:09
		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: zawodny on Tue, 25 May 1993 04:35
		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: thompson on Mon, 24 May 1993 14:41
		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: alan on Mon, 24 May 1993 08:41
		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: landers on Fri, 21 May 1993 13:12
		Re: IDL or PV~Wave? By: knight on Fri, 21 May 1993 09:44

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