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Re: Launching IDL App. From Icon [message #24846]

Wed, 25 April 2001 18:13

davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996

Senior Member

Aaron Birenboim (aaron@shimi.swcp.com) writes:

> have developed an IDL application for a customer who
> has FULL IDL licenses.
>
> However, the users of this application will not know IDL.
> (Several people using the same computer, what a concept!)
>
> How can I get a pretty icon on the desktop to launch my app
> from the desktop?
> I don't want the "common" usert to be able to tell that
> my App is in IDL. Just click on an icon, and a GUI
> pops up, just liek everything else on Windoze.
>
> Can this be done?
>
> In UNIX, I'd write a script to launch command-line IDL and
> run my app. But they took out command line support under WIN32

Here is an article that explains the process on Windoze:

http://www.dfanning.com/tips/idl_icon.html

Cheers,

David

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Re: Launching IDL App. From Icon [message #24859 is a reply to message #24846]

Tue, 24 April 2001 11:08

Randall Skelton
Messages: 169
Registered: October 2000

Senior Member

I don't use windows myself but David Fannings's site gives a description
of how to do this...

The link below might get you started:
http://www.dfanning.com/tips/idl_icon.html

Randall

On 24 Apr 2001, Aaron Birenboim wrote:

> Date: 24 Apr 2001 16:16:39 GMT
> From: Aaron Birenboim <aaron@shimi.swcp.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
> Subject: Launching IDL App. From Icon
>
> I have developed an IDL application for a customer who
> has FULL IDL licenses.
>
> However, the users of this application will not know IDL.
> (Several people using the same computer, what a concept!)
>
> How can I get a pretty icon on the desktop to launch my app
> from the desktop?
> I don't want the "common" usert to be able to tell that
> my App is in IDL. Just click on an icon, and a GUI
> pops up, just liek everything else on Windoze.
>
> Can this be done?
>
> In UNIX, I'd write a script to launch command-line IDL and
> run my app. But they took out command line support under WIN32
> --
> Aaron Birenboim
> Albuquerque, NM
> aaron@boim.com
> http://boim.com/~aaron
>

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Re: Launching IDL App. From Icon [message #24899 is a reply to message #24859]

Sat, 28 April 2001 15:18

Aaron Birenboim
Messages: 24
Registered: October 2000

Junior Member

Randall Skelton <rhskelto@atm.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
: I don't use windows myself but David Fannings's site gives a description
: of how to do this...

: The link below might get you started:
: http://www.dfanning.com/tips/idl_icon.html

This says you can associate a *.sav file with a runtime license program.
Was one of these delivered with my IDL development license?
Can I use my development license somehow?

Can I just set Windows to open *.sav files with idlde.exe ?

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Aaron Birenboim
Albuquerque, NM
aaron@boim.com
http://boim.com/~aaron

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