| underscore bug? [message #22768] |
Thu, 30 November 2000 23:36  |
noymer
Messages: 65
Registered: June 1999
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I know this sounds weird, but I am wondering is there
a known bug---or feature---regarding the underscore
character (_) in IDL 5.3 (linux)?
I was making some SURFACES and all of a sudden the fonts
were all $%^&ed up and I could not fix it for about an hour
of messing around. I backtracked to an old version that
worked and found that it lacked the underscore character in
things like dataset and output filenames. I was desperate, so
I tried renaming all the things I had with the underscore
and the problem went away.
It was such a time sink, I don't even feel like pinpointing it.
BUT... is this a known "issue"?
- Andrew
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| Re: underscore bug? [message #22991 is a reply to message #22768] |
Tue, 19 December 2000 00:11  |
Thomas Launey
Messages: 25
Registered: September 1999
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In article <907kdl$kn2$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, noymer@my-deja.com says...
> I know this sounds weird, but I am wondering is there
> a known bug---or feature---regarding the underscore
> character (_) in IDL 5.3 (linux)?
>
> I was making some SURFACES and all of a sudden the fonts
> were all $%^&ed up and I could not fix it for about an hour
> of messing around. I backtracked to an old version that
> worked and found that it lacked the underscore character in
> things like dataset and output filenames. I was desperate, so
> I tried renaming all the things I had with the underscore
> and the problem went away.
>
> It was such a time sink, I don't even feel like pinpointing it.
> BUT... is this a known "issue"?
>
> - Andrew
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Hi, Andrew,
I don't know if this is a related problem but I also had some very weird
behavior for a widget program when I used underscore as the name in the
title bar of the widget. (ie: XMANAGER, "my_widget_prog",.....).
Replacing the "_" by a "-" fixed the problem.
However, it seems that I also abuse of neurotoxic substances since the
CW_animate in the /lib uses: XMANAGER, "CW_ANIMATE Demo",... and works
perfectly fine. (???)
Please let me know if you can get a reasonable explanation for this.
Cheers,
Thomas
Thomas Launey
Laboratory for Memory and Learning, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN
Saitama, JAPAN
email: t_launey@brain.riken.go.jp
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