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Re: Experiences w/ IDL for Windows? [message #1761]

Thu, 03 February 1994 06:44

jacobsen
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Registered: July 1992

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In article <1994Feb2.192721.27923@nwra.com> mark@nwra.com (Mark Baldwin) writes:

Does anyone know of any significant problems or limitations using IDL
for Windows? We are currently running IDL on various Sun workstations,
and would like the same capabilities on a PC. Thanks for any comments.

I use IDL on Windows at home and IDL on RS/6000 and VAX at work.
The good side:
I can write IDL stuff at home (including widgets) and
it all works the same. It's so nice to
be able to write platform-independant code
so easily! Even for mouse-clicking stuff...
The bad side:
I have just 8 MB of memory. IDL gets horrendously slow
on the PC with large images (>256x256)
On IDL on VAX and Unix, the terminal window shows
your current prompt and previous lines all
together in one window. For some reason,
they chose to have a one-line window for
your current command and a separate window
for previous commands. I don't like that.
However, using up-arrow still pulls back
your previous command, so it's not so bad.
Call_external stuff is less straightforward on DOS.

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		Re: Experiences w/ IDL for Windows? By: jacobsen on Thu, 03 February 1994 06:44
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