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| Re: Impressions on IDL for Macintosh? [message #20478 is a reply to message #20477] |
Mon, 03 July 2000 00:00  |
Paul Woodford
Messages: 43
Registered: June 2000
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General comments: I use IDL 5.3 on Macintosh, Linux, and, to a lesser
extent, Windows. I prefer IDL on the Mac, partially because I prefer
the Mac in general. The built-in IDL editor is clearly better on the
Mac than on Linux or Windows. I find a whole host of HI annoyances in
the Windows version, but people who like Windows may not.
I cannot think of any bug that I have found in the Mac version that has
not also been present in Linux version. I have found two bugs (one HI,
one numeric) in the Linux version that were not present in the Mac
version.
The development environment in the Linux version of 5.3 is much less
stable than it has been in previous versions, but I have not been able
to figure out any clear pattern to its crashes. For now I have reverted
to the terminal version and am hoping that 5.4 is better.
In article <bknaepenYYY-8FC0AE.11205403072000@news.ulb.ac.be>, Bernard
<bknaepenYYY@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
> 4) Variable watch doesn't display anything if it was not left open the
> last time IDL was quit (it can be activated by defining a variable with
> the prompt line when the window is already active)
This bug is also present in IDL for Linux, so I don't think it's
Macintosh-specific. I've not had an opportunity to test for this bug on
Windows.
--
Paul Woodford, Ph.D.
Essex Corporation
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| Re: Impressions on IDL for Macintosh? [message #20480 is a reply to message #20477] |
Mon, 03 July 2000 00:00 |
Bernard
Messages: 2
Registered: July 2000
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In article <8jp2td$pi5$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, reardonb@my-deja.com wrote:
> Bernard,
> what sort of bugs? please specify. I've noticed that some widgets do not
> appear as nicely on the mac as on the PC. The widget_table comes to
> mind. However, there are a lot of keyword settings for the widget_table
> so perhaps I am not setting something right. I (and the rest of the
> group) would be interested to here what problems you have run into.
> -Brian
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> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
1) Impossibility to directly print in landscape mode.
2) Bug in import ascii macro: last fied missing in last step of
importing.
3) When producing mpeg files with large image sizes, IDL memory
allocation memory grows (say from 24Mb to 40Mb or more depending on size
of images) and that memory is not returned when mpeg sequence is closed.
(On the Mac I've never seen an application eat up more memory than what
was allocated at launch time.)
minor bugs:
4) Variable watch doesn't display anything if it was not left open the
last time IDL was quit (it can be activated by defining a variable with
the prompt line when the window is already active)
5) When importing ascii variables with ascii_template, the window that
appears is positioned completely off-screen and to shrinks at every
click of the mouse.
6) The button to move up in the directory hierachy in the import image
macro is inactive. (can be activated by first chosing a subdirectory).
Since all these bugs are present in rather basic functions, I am a bit
concerned about the overall quality of the Macintosh port of IDL.
Bernard
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| Re: Impressions on IDL for Macintosh? [message #20481 is a reply to message #20477] |
Mon, 03 July 2000 00:00 |
reardonb
Messages: 16
Registered: December 1999
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Bernard,
what sort of bugs? please specify. I've noticed that some widgets do not
appear as nicely on the mac as on the PC. The widget_table comes to
mind. However, there are a lot of keyword settings for the widget_table
so perhaps I am not setting something right. I (and the rest of the
group) would be interested to here what problems you have run into.
-Brian
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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