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Re: Path Problems Redux [message #59533 is a reply to message #59532]

Tue, 01 April 2008 10:13

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Registered: April 2002

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David Fanning wrote:
> C.E. Ordonez writes:
>
>> It turns out that when I installed 7.0 over an existing 6.4, the
>> installation "remembered" the name of the old startup file via a system
>> variable (IDL_STARTUP) inside a file named
>>
>> C:\Users\Ordonez\.idl\itt\pref-10-idl_7_0-windows\idl.pref
>
> Oh, my Gosh, that's it! That's where it was! You don't know
> how many hours of therapy you saved me from.

In my experience, when things are as weird as you experienced, it's usually a setting in
some as-yet-unknown preference file. But, the location and name above is just waaaay too
arcane to be taken seriously.

So what it is in the *nix version? Maybe all hidden files?

~/.idl/.itt/.pref-10-idl_7_0/.idl.pref

?

(Is this the 10'th incarnation of the v7.0 preferences?)

I mean, why should windows users have all the maddening, tear-your-hair-out-by-the-roots
fun? :o)

BTW, aren't the Design folks in the Marketing dept supposed to make the 'orrible prototype
interfaces more user-friendly?

> Well, shoot, I just blew my old IDL workspace completely away.
> Back to square one, I guess. Always good to get another chance
> at doing it right. :-(

If by doing it right you mean not using the Workbench then, based on the last few months
of posts about it in this newsgroup, I think you might be correct. ;o)

FWIW, I've had IDL 7.0 installed for a month or more now and, sans Workbench, I'm still as
productive as I was using 6.4. :o)

cheers,

paulv

p.s. Just so we're jake, I want to stress my smiley's above are not laughing *at* you;
we're laughing *with* you. Maniacally.

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		Re: Path Problems Redux By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 01 April 2008 11:23
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 01 April 2008 11:20
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: C.E. Ordonez on Tue, 01 April 2008 10:53
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 April 2008 10:29
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 01 April 2008 10:13
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 01 April 2008 09:30
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 April 2008 09:27
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: C.E. Ordonez on Tue, 01 April 2008 09:19
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 April 2008 09:13
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 April 2008 09:01
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 April 2008 08:43
		Re: Path Problems Redux By: David Fanning on Wed, 02 April 2008 10:12

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