| idl 7 [message #58923] |
Thu, 28 February 2008 01:27  |
R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998
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Hi
we have had so much issues the last days with disappearing data in
debugging mode or changing content of vars or wrong pathes and not
finding sources that mostly all users I talked with complaint not to use
this version 7 of idl.
I do wonder a bit that none of the beta testers run in those problems.
Or do we have currently the beta phase ?
cheers
Reimar
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| Re: IDL 7 [message #67804 is a reply to message #58923] |
Thu, 27 August 2009 22:13  |
Michael Galloy
Messages: 1114
Registered: April 2006
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James Kuyper wrote:
> The government contract that pays my paycheck recently transferred from
> one company to another, and so, perforce, did I and most of my
> coworkers, along with most of the associated hardware and software. Our
> new employer is going to have to buy new licenses, and I was asked
> whether we should upgrade from IDL 6.3 as well. What's the current
> consensus? I heard a lot of bad things about IDL 7.0 when it first came
> out - has the situation improved? Did it get easier once you got used to
> it?
ITT VIS responded to the "eternal analyzing code" problem and several
other issues in the Workbench. I still find it fairly slow, but the
features are great. I end of using it only about 20% of the time since I
spend most of my time at the Unix command line.
I would recommend IDL 7.1 much more highly than IDL 7.0. Some IDL 7.1
features (these all have articles on my website at michaelgalloy.com
that begin "IDL 7.1:"):
* iTools programmatic API
* 24-bit PostScript
* code distribution features (platform extensions for DLMs and update
site wizard)
* Windows command line
IDL 7.0 had the IDL Workbench, but that was such a big change that it
seems reasonable to wait a bit for it to be more stable. The MAKE_RT
command (from within IDL) was added. There were actually some fairly
nice features in the 7.0.x series: IDLdoc support in the Workbench, Mac
OS X 64-bit support, and some Workbench tweaks.
IDL 6.4 had:
* 24-bit Z buffer
* IDLnetURL class as an HTTP/FTP client
Of course, all three versions had minor bug fixes and other small
miscellaneous features (although they are big if it's the one thing you
really need).
I wish ITT VIS would produce and publicize a bit more useful set of
release notes for each version of IDL. I will try to create at least an
overview article about future versions (if I'm feeling motivated I'll
try to do the more detailed version with some examples like I did for
IDL 7.1).
Mike
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www.michaelgalloy.com
Associate Research Scientist
Tech-X Corporation
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| Re: IDL 7 [message #67815 is a reply to message #58923] |
Thu, 27 August 2009 10:08 |
penteado
Messages: 866
Registered: February 2018
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On Aug 27, 7:58 am, James Kuyper <jameskuy...@verizon.net> wrote:
> The government contract that pays my paycheck recently transferred from
> one company to another, and so, perforce, did I and most of my
> coworkers, along with most of the associated hardware and software. Our
> new employer is going to have to buy new licenses, and I was asked
> whether we should upgrade from IDL 6.3 as well. What's the current
> consensus? I heard a lot of bad things about IDL 7.0 when it first came
> out - has the situation improved? Did it get easier once you got used to it?
I find IDL 7.1 much, much, much superior to 6.3 (and very noticeably
better than 7.0). To me, the most significant improvement is the
workbench, which has a lot more tools and understands the code a lot
better. I also find it very convenient that the workbench is based on
Eclipse, since I use Eclipse for every other language I program. See
more specific details on the workbench in what I wrote on the thread
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_t hread/thread/1b7dc034eb4d6542#
Also, he itools kept improving, and IDL 7.1 brought several simple
procedures to manipulate them; see, for instance:
http://michaelgalloy.com/2009/08/15/idl-7-1-itools-procedura l-api.html#more-521
Other important improvements are not as obvious to notice, if you do
not know to look for them: make_rt, 24 bit PS, CSV, command line in
Windows and IDLDoc support are some that come to mind now. In that
respect, I have often found that ITTVIS should make better advertising
of the new features on each version. On several occasions, I only
discovered some important new feature several months after an upgrade.
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