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XROI in IDL5.6 on MAC OS 10.2? [message #33917] Mon, 03 February 2003 19:53 Go to next message
Richard French is currently offline  Richard French
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Can someone out there give XROI a try on IDL5.6 using MAC OS 10.2? Mine
fails in several different ways:

XROI,dist(300) gives "Unknown dynamically loadable module: iptool"

XROI by itself brings up a widget, but I get sytax errors in
query_image.pro when it gets to QUERY_PNG and QUERY_JPEG, etc.

Perhaps I don't have my path set up properly.

Any advice would be welcome.

I tried this on my Solaris box and got a core dump when I did

Data=dist(300)
Data=exp(-data/100)
Data=shift(data,150,150)
Xroi,data

Buss error (core dumped)

Other images seemed to work OK.

Thanks for any suggestions.
Dick French
rfrench@wellesley.edu
Re: XROI in IDL5.6 on MAC OS 10.2? [message #34008 is a reply to message #33917] Mon, 10 February 2003 20:34 Go to previous message
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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Richard G. French (rfrench@wellesley.edu) writes:

> Now I have a new problem. How can I configure the printer tool for LIVE_PLOT
> on a Unix box so it does more than print a blank page? I'm trying to send it
> to an HP laserwriter that accepts PS. When I try to save the plot to a file,
> instead (as an eps file) the plot is incomplete when I use Ghostview to view
> it. Any hints would be welcome

Well, it certainly *looks* incomplete in Ghostview,
I'll give you that. But it looks incomplete in an odd
way. Have you tried actually printing it?

One of the problems with object graphics is that
you get what you ask for rather than what you wanted.
(This is, of course one of the main problems in
life, too, but never mind that.) I'm thinking that
the lines are so thin they don't show up well in
Ghostview, but they might, in fact, show up if you
print the page. (My only PostScript printer is off-line
at the moment, so I can't test this.) But I do know that
I generally make my lines "fatter" when I want to send
object graphics output to a printer for exactly this
reason.


> I assume that LivePlot is not able to make a vectorized PS file of a plot -
> is this still the case, or is there a way to make real PS plots using
> LIVE_PLOT?

No one knows *what* LivePlot is capable of. RSI, in their
wisdom, doesn't allow us to see the code. :-)

Cheers,

David
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Re: XROI in IDL5.6 on MAC OS 10.2? [message #34012 is a reply to message #33917] Mon, 10 February 2003 16:50 Go to previous message
Richard French is currently offline  Richard French
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Registered: December 2000
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>>
>>> Can someone out there give XROI a try on IDL5.6 using MAC OS 10.2? Mine
>>> fails in several different ways:
>>>
>>> XROI,dist(300) gives "Unknown dynamically loadable module: iptool"
>>>

>
> The message "Unknown dynamically loadable module: iptool" means that IDL
> didn't or can't read the IPTOOL.DLM file, which causes IDL to not know about
> the DLM. I would first investigate installation and permission problems.

Yes, that turned out to be the problem - I had a typo in $IDL_DLM_PATH :(


I could not reproduce the bus error on the Solaris box - it works fine now.


Thanks for the help!

Now I have a new problem. How can I configure the printer tool for LIVE_PLOT
on a Unix box so it does more than print a blank page? I'm trying to send it
to an HP laserwriter that accepts PS. When I try to save the plot to a file,
instead (as an eps file) the plot is incomplete when I use Ghostview to view
it. Any hints would be welcome

I assume that LivePlot is not able to make a vectorized PS file of a plot -
is this still the case, or is there a way to make real PS plots using
LIVE_PLOT?

Thanks again for any hints.

Dick French
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