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Re: IDL workbench & windows [message #58444 is a reply to message #58443]

Thu, 31 January 2008 19:33

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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elwood writes:

> Could someone clarify the difference between workspace and initial
> working directory?

The workspace would be (in a perfect world) the directory
that contains all your project directories. It is not
a perfect world, because IDL allows project directories
to exist outside the workspace, but even so, the workspace
knows about them (via the .metadata folder inside the
workspace). So, it is the container that holds your project.

The initial working directory is the directory that IDL
changes into when it starts up. It *could* be the workspace
directory, but it could also be a project directory, or it
could be the default "home" directory that is operating
system dependent, if you don't tell it otherwise:

http://www.dfanning.com/misc_tips/startdir.html

If you have the "Change on Open" preference on, as you
open files the "working" directory will change to the
directory containing the file you opened.

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 workbench & windows By: David Fanning on Fri, 01 February 2008 09:57
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: elwood on Fri, 01 February 2008 08:52
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: Steve[5] on Fri, 01 February 2008 01:01
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: David Fanning on Thu, 31 January 2008 19:33
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: David Fanning on Thu, 31 January 2008 19:21
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: elwood on Thu, 31 January 2008 17:04
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: elwood on Thu, 31 January 2008 16:50
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: R.Bauer on Fri, 08 February 2008 01:43
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: David Fanning on Fri, 08 February 2008 05:59
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: elwood on Mon, 04 February 2008 14:51

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