| Re: date and time in IDL prompt? [message #16610] |
Thu, 05 August 1999 00:00 |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Med Bennett (mbennett@indra.com) writes:
> Is it possible to always have the current date and time echo in the IDL
> prompt? If I do
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> IDL> !prompt = 'IDL '+systime(0)+ ' >'
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> I get a prompt that looks like
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> IDL Thu Aug 05 09:11:24 1999 >
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> but it is static, i.e. subsequent prompts always contain the same date
> and time:
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> IDL Thu Aug 05 09:11:24 1999 >
> IDL Thu Aug 05 09:11:24 1999 >!prompt = 'IDL '+systime(0)+ ' >'
> IDL Thu Aug 05 10:52:12 1999 >
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> Is there a way to make it dynamic?
Slow day, Med?
You could make a little "prompt" object that
used widget timer events to update the prompt
at some specified interval. You would probably have
to have a small widget program (iconified) on your
display, since you can't send timers to unrealized
widgets, I don't think.
Cheers,
David
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