| How to create a Windows IDL app? [message #22376] |
Fri, 10 November 2000 00:00  |
Dave Greenwood
Messages: 33
Registered: October 2000
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I'm trying to create a Windows NT IDL application so that I double-
click an icon and fire up the application. I've been following
David Fanning's tips at http://www.dfanning.com/tips/idl_icon.html
but I'm obviously doing something wrong. I strongly suspect it's
because I haven't set up the appropriate file type association in
the Registry.
What "action" should I use?
And what "application"?
This is IDL 5.3.1.
Thanks,
Dave
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Dave Greenwood Email: Greenwoodde@ORNL.GOV
Oak Ridge National Lab %STD-W-DISCLAIMER, I only speak for myself
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| Re: How to create a Windows IDL app? [message #22427 is a reply to message #22376] |
Tue, 14 November 2000 00:00  |
Dave Greenwood
Messages: 33
Registered: October 2000
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davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) wrote:
> Dave Greenwood (greenwoodde@ornl.gov) writes:
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>> I'm trying to create a Windows NT IDL application so that I double-
>> click an icon and fire up the application. I've been following
>> David Fanning's tips at http://www.dfanning.com/tips/idl_icon.html
>> but I'm obviously doing something wrong. I strongly suspect it's
>> because I haven't set up the appropriate file type association in
>> the Registry.
>>
>> What "action" should I use?
>>
>> And what "application"?
>>
>> This is IDL 5.3.1.
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> Using your Windows Explorer, find the Options
> selection under the View menu. Select the File
> Types tab. Now find (or create) the "IDL binary file"
> type. It will have a SAV extension. The action
> to assign is "open". You are going to open
> it with the IDL run-time version. Here is
> how the "Application used to perform action"
> is defined on my machine:
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> "D:\RSI\IDL54\bin\bin.x86\idlrt.exe" "%1"
I still wasn't able to make this work, but I no doubt had screwed
something up somewhere or was running into a conflict with some
other application which had registered an action for .sav files.
I'm no NT expert but it looks to me like the above should work just
fine. Anyway, in addition to this method and the one suggested by
Kelly Dean at
http://www.cira.colostate.edu/special/csuidl/IDLLaunch.htm
I thought I'd post a suggestion which came from inside RSI and which
I was able to use successfully:
1. create a desktop shortcut to the idlrt.exe in the bin directory.
2. modify the shortcut properties (right click on the desktop
shortcut) to run idlrt.exe with the addition of your save as an
argument on the "Target" command line.
For example
c:\rsi\idl_54\bin\bin.x86\idlrt.exe c:\pathruntime\main.sav
Dave
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Dave Greenwood Email: Greenwoodde@ORNL.GOV
Oak Ridge National Lab %STD-W-DISCLAIMER, I only speak for myself
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| Re: How to create a Windows IDL app? [message #22446 is a reply to message #22376] |
Mon, 13 November 2000 00:00 |
Kelly Dean
Messages: 92
Registered: March 1997
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There is a tips page at CSU with a short description about launching IDL
apps from the Windows Desktop.
http://www.cira.colostate.edu/special/csuidl/IDLLaunch.htm
File type association is important with some methods, but CSU's method is
to create a MS-DOS batch (*.bat) file and used this file to launch IDL with
the desired IDL porgram.
Also, I notice the tips page needs to be updated, as RSI moved the
idlde.exe into another directory with IDL 5.3.
Kelly Dean
CSU/CIRA
Dave Greenwood wrote:
> I'm trying to create a Windows NT IDL application so that I double-
> click an icon and fire up the application. I've been following
> David Fanning's tips at http://www.dfanning.com/tips/idl_icon.html
> but I'm obviously doing something wrong. I strongly suspect it's
> because I haven't set up the appropriate file type association in
> the Registry.
>
> What "action" should I use?
>
> And what "application"?
>
> This is IDL 5.3.1.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
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> Dave Greenwood Email: Greenwoodde@ORNL.GOV
> Oak Ridge National Lab %STD-W-DISCLAIMER, I only speak for myself
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| Re: How to create a Windows IDL app? [message #22474 is a reply to message #22376] |
Fri, 10 November 2000 00:00 |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Dave Greenwood (greenwoodde@ornl.gov) writes:
> I'm trying to create a Windows NT IDL application so that I double-
> click an icon and fire up the application. I've been following
> David Fanning's tips at http://www.dfanning.com/tips/idl_icon.html
> but I'm obviously doing something wrong. I strongly suspect it's
> because I haven't set up the appropriate file type association in
> the Registry.
>
> What "action" should I use?
>
> And what "application"?
>
> This is IDL 5.3.1.
Using your Windows Explorer, find the Options
selection under the View menu. Select the File
Types tab. Now find (or create) the "IDL binary file"
type. It will have a SAV extension. The action
to assign is "open". You are going to open
it with the IDL run-time version. Here is
how the "Application used to perform action"
is defined on my machine:
"D:\RSI\IDL54\bin\bin.x86\idlrt.exe" "%1"
That should do it.
Cheers,
David
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Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
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