| IDLWAVE Users of IDL v7 [message #58568] |
Fri, 01 February 2008 10:25  |
JD Smith
Messages: 850
Registered: December 1999
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This message is for those IDL 7 users of IDLWAVE, whom David hasn't
lured away to the Workbench with his tales of splendorous delight ;).
ITTVIS made some significant changes to the help system with IDL 7,
which break IDLWAVE's integration with help, and it's ability to find
the routine information shipped with IDL. You can find out more at
this Tech Tip:
http://www.ittvis.com/services/techtip.asp?ttid=4323
The workaround outlined there is to install 6.4's help system in
place, so you get the old Assistant. This isn't ideal, but some of
the features of IDLWAVE's help system are no longer possible with the
Workbench-based help, the largest one being direct linking to help on
individual keywords. ITTVIS is working to resolve these issues, so
for now, this is the best approach. Also, since very little changed
in the language, it's not as silly as it seems.
Unfortunately, moving the XML routine information file from help/
online_help to help/ has had larger consequences; since IDLWAVE
expects to know where that file is for many things. If you'd like a
simpler workaround, and don't mind going without the help system for
now, simply link or copy the file idl_catalog.xml from idl/help/ to
idl/help/online_help/.
JD
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| Re: IDLWAVE Users of IDL v7 [message #58603 is a reply to message #58568] |
Tue, 05 February 2008 10:08  |
Vince Hradil
Messages: 574
Registered: December 1999
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On Feb 5, 9:36 am, "Dick Jackson" <d...@d-jackson.com> wrote:
> "JD Smith" <jdtsm...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> news:7845b253-253d-449a-84c7-876e600b3500@q77g2000hsh.google groups.com...
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>>> On Feb 1, 2:19 pm, Vince Hradil <hrad...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> On Feb 1, 12:25 pm, JD Smith <jdtsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> BTW - has anyone gotten idlwave to with emacs in windows? The command
>>> line, I mean.
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>> There was some recent action between Dick Jackson and an ITTVIS
>> engineer who had rolled a command line Windows IDL executable. Dick
>> reported some good success after a few rounds of iteration. I don't
>> know the release status of the Windows shell, but in principle,
>> IDLWAVE Window's users should soon be able to join the rest of us with
>> real *idl* shell access.
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>> JD
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> Indeed, Abraham Campbell had posted a link to his 'wincl' program:https://www.ittvis.com/codebank/search.asp?FID=536
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> A newer release that I received from Abraham is closer to being Emacs-ready.
> One of us will be in touch soon. I think you'll like it.
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> Cheers,
> -Dick
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> --
> Dick Jackson Software Consulting http://www.d-jackson.com
> Victoria, BC, Canada +1-250-220-6117 d...@d-jackson.com
Good news! I'm looking forward to using emacs on windows - if only
for the incremental search 8^)
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