| Re: IDL 7 on LINUX Question [message #57053 is a reply to message #57052] |
Fri, 30 November 2007 13:55   |
Doug Edmundson
Messages: 58
Registered: November 2005
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David Fanning wrote:
> Doug Edmundson writes:
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>> Vince is correct. The IDL Workbench is parsing all the PRO code on your
>> path, in the current directory, in your open projects, and editors. If
>> you're similar to our ENVI developers, it can take a while to do all
>> that! I've already taken quite a bit of ribbing on this, so the plan is
>> to speed it up.
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> Given this, and given that I have several big libraries that
> I always use: JHUAPL, ASTRO, MARKWART, COYOTE, etc., is it
> better to make each of these "projects" and always open
> them. Or, should I just add these directories to my path
> and not bother to make them projects?
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> Cheers,
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> David
>
David,
I think a lot of people will be asking this.
I'd probably have a project for each of them and leave them open all the
time. One benefit is that you'll have all the nice searching
capabilities of Eclipse, such as the "search" dialog. But that's not
all! You also get "Open Resource" (see the "Navigate" menu). That's
one of the IDE team's favorites. Doing cmd+shift+R pops up the "Open
Resource" dialog. Type in a partial name of a file and voila... a list
of matching files appears like magic. This is a fast way to hunt down
files.
The "Open Declaration" feature doesn't require projects and provides a
fast way to hunt down routines.
If you like to manually manage your path, those new projects should
probably have the "Update IDL Path preference..." option turned off when
you create them. That property can always be changed later (right click
on a project, bring up its properties and select "IDL Project
Properties"). For those totally new to the IDL Workbench, you can take
a look at your path preference in "Preferences > IDL > Paths".
So, projects can be pretty benign. You don't have to use them to build
SAV files or anything like that, but they do facilitate a lot of the
workbench functionality.
Thanks for the good question.
Doug
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