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Help: IDL slicer in IRIX 5.2?? [message #4104] Thu, 04 May 1995 00:00 Go to next message
jeffb is currently offline  jeffb
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Registered: May 1995
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Sorry if this has been posted before.

Topic: IDL slicer does not work on my SGI!

I run IDL 2.4 on an SGI Indigo running IRIX 5.2.
For some reason the slicer is not working; it won't display
anything at all on the right side of its window (where output
usually is displayed). Does anyone know what's wrong here
and how to fix it? The SunOS slicer seems to work fine...
because I can run the slicer on a Sun, with the display sent
to the SGI, and it looks fine.

Thanks-- email replies are fine, I'll post a summary answer
if I get this fixed--

Jeff Benensohn
jeffb@oddjob.uchicago.edu
Re: Help: IDL slicer in IRIX 5.2?? [message #4178 is a reply to message #4104] Mon, 08 May 1995 00:00 Go to previous message
Richard Olsen is currently offline  Richard Olsen
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Registered: November 1994
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jeffb@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Jeff Benensohn) wrote:
>
> I'll answer this one myself (thanks to RSI).
>> I run IDL 2.4 on an SGI Indigo running IRIX 5.2.
>> For some reason the slicer is not working; ......

if you want to keep the fonts larger, you can run the
slicer display window with the /detached option -
then it gets its own window, and the problem is avoided.

I set my default IDL widget sized to a smaller size,
in order to make things like the help page fit a little
better...

rc olsen
olsen@physics.nps.navy.mil
Re: Help: IDL slicer in IRIX 5.2?? [message #4193 is a reply to message #4104] Fri, 05 May 1995 00:00 Go to previous message
jeffb is currently offline  jeffb
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Registered: May 1995
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I'll answer this one myself (thanks to RSI).
> I run IDL 2.4 on an SGI Indigo running IRIX 5.2.
> For some reason the slicer is not working; it won't display
> anything at all on the right side of its window (where output
> usually is displayed).

Thanks to RSI for giving me the answer to this one.
The slicer is actually working fine. The problem is that the screen size
limits the size of the slicer window (horizontally), so that the output
doesn't fit on the right side of the window (next to the controls).
It ends up below the controls, so you have to increase the size of the
window vertically to see it.

Of course, this means the slicer takes up the entire screen. There's
a better way: change the default font of the widget to a smaller one;
then everything fits fine. The command for this is:
widget_control,default_font='6x9'

The font is tiny and hard to read, but at least it works.

Jeff
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