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Re: Background Widgets? [message #12717]

Thu, 27 August 1998 00:00

J.D. Smith
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Registered: August 1996

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TJ Saunders wrote:
>
> Is it possible to run a widget as a background process? Ideally, I would
> like to be able to run several of my widget programs from the same IDL
> process simultaneously, and still have the prompt available for testing
> commands. If this ability exists, is it OS independent? FYI, I am
> currently using the outdated IDL 4.0 on a DEC Alpha running VMS 6.2
>

For this you will have to upgrade to v>5.0. See the NO_BLOCK keyword to
XManager in these versions.

Good Luck,

JD
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