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Re: Mac Program Support [message #45254 is a reply to message #45251]

Fri, 26 August 2005 05:31

Haje Korth
Messages: 651
Registered: May 1997

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David,
so you are an IDL 1.0 user, too. I was still in high school when I had my
first experience with that version on the VAX. However, it seems that you
proceeded on the IDL learning curve a lot quicker than I did...
Anyway, with the introduction of the .full_session_reset in I believe 5.0
(?), I pretty much scrapped retall, because .f is just quicker to type than
retall, and most of the time it is also less keystrokes than getting
'retall' back from the command line buffer. So, why do I still need retall?

Cheers,
Haje

"David Fanning" <davidf@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d781dcfcc165945989a5b@news.frii.com...
> JD Smith writes:
>
>> One of the joys of the active command line.
>
> I've been doing this a LONG time, but today I saw
> this on a PC, too. What in the world have I been
> paying attention to!? RETALL has *never* failed me,
> ever! I feel like I'm in some kind of time warp... :-(
>
> Here is another thing today that surprised me. Two people
> in the class have new Mac laptops. I have a little program,
> PickColorName, that displays 96 small draw widgets and fills
> them with a color with Polyfill. Colors appears instantaneously
> on a Windows PC. But on the Macs (both of them) the draw widgets
> appear all in black, then a second or so later the colors appear.
> It is VERY slow.
>
> I was shocked, really. I hear so much about how Macs are
> perfect for graphics applications, but this looked more like
> the VAX VMS workstations I learned IDL on 20 years ago.
> Any ideas about why this happens? One of the Mac users
> told me it is common with some of her applications, too.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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		Re: Mac Program Support By: K. Bowman on Fri, 26 August 2005 07:31
		Re: Mac Program Support By: David Fanning on Fri, 26 August 2005 07:18
		Re: Mac Program Support By: K. Bowman on Fri, 26 August 2005 07:00
		Re: Mac Program Support By: Haje Korth on Fri, 26 August 2005 05:31
		Re: Mac Program Support By: George N. White III on Fri, 26 August 2005 04:37
		Re: Mac Program Support By: jm on Fri, 26 August 2005 03:21
		Re: Mac Program Support By: David Fanning on Thu, 25 August 2005 18:27
		Re: Mac Program Support By: JD Smith on Thu, 25 August 2005 14:28
		Re: Mac Program Support By: David Fanning on Wed, 24 August 2005 19:37
		Re: Mac Program Support By: JD Smith on Wed, 24 August 2005 14:09
		Re: Mac Program Support By: Henry on Fri, 26 August 2005 10:13

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