| IDL 7 on LINUX Question [message #57065] |
Fri, 30 November 2007 10:08  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Folks,
OK, I've decided to go whole hog and I put a new SUSE 10.3
installation of LINUX on my laptop, along with the new
IDL 7.0. Installation and licensing of IDL was easy.
Couple of questions. One about IDL and one (maybe) about
LINUX.
1. When the new IDL Workbench starts up, there is rather
a long space of time while the Workbench is thinking or
something. I see something in the bottom right corner that
says "Analyzing Code...". What in the world is it doing?
It gets my laptop all worked up, with the fan coming on,
etc. Takes a long time for my laptop to settle down.
2. After I found the Preferences->IDL->Graphics and set
RETAIN=2, I find I have something other than black windows.
(Oh, I had to exit the IDLDE and start over for this
section to go into effect. Seems the APPLY button didn't
work, even when I killed the window and opened new ones.)
Now my windows retain their contents, but when a graphics
window goes behind the IDLDE and I want to bring it forward
with WSHOW, then the window icon in the task bar just blinks
at me. The window doesn't come forward until I click the window
icon in the task bar. This is probably a window thing rather
than an IDL thing, but I don't know how to fix it. :-(
Thanks for any help.
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: IDL 7 on LINUX Question [message #57097 is a reply to message #57065] |
Mon, 03 December 2007 18:14  |
Vince Hradil
Messages: 574
Registered: December 1999
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On Dec 3, 6:08 pm, JD Smith <jdsm...@as.arizona.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:09:00 -0800, Vince Hradil wrote:
>> 1- how does IDL-Wave for Emacs do this. Doesn't it build a "library" file
>> that keeps track of things like keywords and completions, etc. Then that
>> file can be quickly searched. Of course, if you change your library, you
>> have to re-scan the files, but I find this not too inconvenient.
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> You pre-scan and it creates .idlwave_catalog files. You can rescan
> easily, but until you do, nothing changes. Any files loaded in a buffer,
> or routines compiled *do* update, so typically things stay in reasonable
> sync.
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> JD
Thanks for the reply, JD. The more I play with the new IDE, the more
I think I'm going to stick with emacs. Of course, I've been using
emacs for about 15-20 years now, so that could have a lot to do with
my bias. I really think that the IDLDE could have used a "catalog"
approach, but maybe it is just the way things are normally done in
Eclipse - i.e. rescan the active path upon loading the ide. Any JAVA
(or other) developers out there that use Eclipse? Of course, JAVA and
IDL are completely different beasts when it come to deployment (or are
they really...?)
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