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Re: Is there a way to detect if a program is running under IDL or the Virtual Machine? [message #37769]

Wed, 28 January 2004 10:40

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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David Yip writes:

> Is there a way to detect if a program is running under full IDL or
> just the vitual machine? I tried the !version variable but it doesn't
> differentiate. I tried using execute hoping it would just fail under
> the VM, but instead it pops up a dialog. Hardware OpenGL doesn't work
> under the VM on Macs and Linux so I need to deal with that and hence I
> need to detect what a program is running under.

Try LMGR.

IDL> IF LMGR(/VM) THEN Print, 'Running on VM'

Cheers,

David
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