| Re: Activating the text window. [message #16050] |
Wed, 30 June 1999 00:00 |
Grady Daub
Messages: 22
Registered: June 1999
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Well, I've never really used IDLDE.
I don't like programs that make you go through 20 hoops just to do something that
one command line entry can do. :-( Another example is the array of Telnet/FTP
clients for windows. All I want to do is "telnet <host>", but, they make me fill
in 100 dialog boxes, before, I can do anything.
IDL's command line thingy is what the doctor ordered, even if the compiler error
messages aren't as helpful as you'd like them. --> "There is some kind of broken
on line ###" :-)
Phil Aldis wrote:
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>>>> Is there a way to activate the text window? That is, once I've created a
>>>> window, I want to be able to type answers to questions, without having
> [....]
>
> I assume that you are talking about the command line text box in the
> IDLDE. Every time you open a window, teh text box loses focus. This is
> true both on UNIX and Windows. As far as I know there is no way of
> making the command line text box keep the focus.
>
> While we're talking about the IDLDE, there's a few things which really
> annoy me about it - little bugs whihc are really very silly. This is
> under windows, I can't comment about the others.
>
> One is that if you edit the macros during a session, the run menu
> becomes the macros menu - great.
>
> Regularly the text cursor jumps up from the command line to the
> program you're editing at the time, for no apparent reason.
>
> The place where you select paths that you want to be in the IDL_PATH
> environment variableis very infuriating. Once you've selected a path,
> it puts the full path up in a text box. You then click okay. Later you
> want to add to it or move some of them around. However you've no idea
> what any of the paths are because the text box is so narrow that all
> you can see is the first bit of all the paths. There aren't any
> horizontal scroll bars so you have to just wipe all of them and start
> again.
>
> There a quite a few other bugs which I know have annoyed me, but I
> can't think of them right now.
>
> I realise that RSI must spend the majority of their time on IDL
> itself, but it would be nice to have bugs like that ironed out.
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
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| Re: Activating the text window. [message #16056 is a reply to message #16050] |
Wed, 30 June 1999 00:00  |
philaldis
Messages: 32
Registered: March 1999
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On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:51:27 -0400, Grady Daub
<gadZOOKS8371@garnet.acns.fsuMMER.edu> wrote:
>>> Is there a way to activate the text window? That is, once I've created a
>>> window, I want to be able to type answers to questions, without having
>>> to click on the text window with the mouse everytime a window pops up.
>>>
>>> Is there a special WINDOW thing that opens a window without activating
>>> it?
>>
I assume that you are talking about the command line text box in the
IDLDE. Every time you open a window, teh text box loses focus. This is
true both on UNIX and Windows. As far as I know there is no way of
making the command line text box keep the focus.
While we're talking about the IDLDE, there's a few things which really
annoy me about it - little bugs whihc are really very silly. This is
under windows, I can't comment about the others.
One is that if you edit the macros during a session, the run menu
becomes the macros menu - great.
Regularly the text cursor jumps up from the command line to the
program you're editing at the time, for no apparent reason.
The place where you select paths that you want to be in the IDL_PATH
environment variableis very infuriating. Once you've selected a path,
it puts the full path up in a text box. You then click okay. Later you
want to add to it or move some of them around. However you've no idea
what any of the paths are because the text box is so narrow that all
you can see is the first bit of all the paths. There aren't any
horizontal scroll bars so you have to just wipe all of them and start
again.
There a quite a few other bugs which I know have annoyed me, but I
can't think of them right now.
I realise that RSI must spend the majority of their time on IDL
itself, but it would be nice to have bugs like that ironed out.
Cheers,
Phil
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| Re: Activating the text window. [message #16069 is a reply to message #16050] |
Tue, 29 June 1999 00:00 |
Grady Daub
Messages: 22
Registered: June 1999
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Junior Member |
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I knew I should've explained it further.
IDL> print,!version
{ sparc sunos unix 5.2 Oct 30 1998}
I run IDL in a terminal window (the text window) using the Common Desktop
Environment on a SUN.
David Fanning wrote:
> Grady Daub (gadZOOKS8371@garnet.acns.fsuMMER.edu) writes:
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>> Is there a way to activate the text window? That is, once I've created a
>> window, I want to be able to type answers to questions, without having
>> to click on the text window with the mouse everytime a window pops up.
>>
>> Is there a special WINDOW thing that opens a window without activating
>> it?
>
> What sort of text window type thing are we talking
> about here? What kind of computer are you using?
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting
> Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
> Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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| Re: Activating the text window. [message #16073 is a reply to message #16069] |
Tue, 29 June 1999 00:00 |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Grady Daub (gadZOOKS8371@garnet.acns.fsuMMER.edu) writes:
> Is there a way to activate the text window? That is, once I've created a
> window, I want to be able to type answers to questions, without having
> to click on the text window with the mouse everytime a window pops up.
>
> Is there a special WINDOW thing that opens a window without activating
> it?
What sort of text window type thing are we talking
about here? What kind of computer are you using?
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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