| Singing New Tune [message #58655] |
Fri, 08 February 2008 12:18 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Folks,
I used to think of the people who ran IDL cron jobs, or
who used Ghostview to visualize all their graphics output,
as Luddites, or worse. But I am singing a new tune these
days as I try to work remotely from a Windows machine
to a UNIX machine, and I have the need to process massive
amounts of data.
To this end, a couple of my most heavily used programs
(by me, anyway) have been updated with new CRONJOB keywords
to keep them alive if you want to do some plotting, but don't
have a graphics connection. These are FSC_COLOR and COLORBAR.
Just set the keyword in the call, and neither will load the
so-called "system colors". These are colors associated with
your window system and are useful for making your IDL applications
look like something Bill Gates created. (Using heavily embedded
FOR loops helps, too.) No one but me has ever used them, I guess,
so it's no big loss. Getting them requires a window
connection. So not getting them allows these programs to run
as cron jobs. (Hence, the name of the keyword.)
Also, I think the NCDF_BROSWER is nearing completion. At least
I haven't heard of anyone with bugs in the last 24-hours. So,
you might also get the latest version of that if you are interested.
http://www.dfanning.com/programs/fsc_color.pro
http://www.dfanning.com/programs/colorbar.pro
http://www.dfanning.com/programs/ncdf_data__define.pro
I'm out of here for a few weeks. I'm putting Chris (Spon) in charge
until I get back. ;-)
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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