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Re: VB and IDL [message #19912 is a reply to message #19907]

Thu, 27 April 2000 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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sun-equipment (guagentm@purdue.edu) writes:

> I'm just starting to use IDL and am looking at using IDL and VB (Visual
> Basic) together. I was wondering if anyone has had any expereinces
> using them together, such as problems or good things. What I am hoping
> to do is create the user interface for my program in VB have all the
> user interaction be processed by VB and send the needed commands to IDL
> and then have IDL display them.

Why? Because you know VB and you don't know IDL? A
waste of time doing it like this, IMHO. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say IDL was designed as a stand-alone application
and it still works best that way. You have to have a VERY
compelling reason to mix two pieces of software like this,
especially when one of them is designed by Microsoft.

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