| Re: painful IDL 7 online help [message #60834] |
Fri, 20 June 2008 08:32  |
Vince Hradil
Messages: 574
Registered: December 1999
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On Jun 20, 9:45 am, LC's No-Spam Newsreading account
<nos...@mi.iasf.cnr.it> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, David Fanning wrote:
>> You can select any number of other browser options, including using an
>> internal browser, I think. Anyway, worth a try.
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> I saw some notes about "Solaris and some Linux versions not supporting
> an internal browser" (but I wouldn't be able to retrieve them, it is
> really too painful to navigate the help with one window coming up at
> each click)
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>> You can find the Web Browser preference under the General Preference
>> tab in Preferences.
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> Preferences OF WHAT ?
> I assume you do not mean firefox Preferences.
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> And the (first) help window which comes out invoking "?" has no
> Preferences link at all.
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> Note I type "?" in the linemode client (the script
> /lnx/idl/idl70/bin/idl on our system, or the process with executable
> /lnx/idl/idl70/bin/bin.linux.x86/idl).
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> The linemode client, not the development environment (which I never use)
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> No setup one can place in STARTUP.pro or in an .Xdefaults file ?
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No, he means eclipse preferences:
Window->Preferences->General->Web Browser
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| Re: painful IDL 7 online help [message #60948 is a reply to message #60834] |
Mon, 23 June 2008 14:46  |
JD Smith
Messages: 850
Registered: December 1999
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On Jun 20, 11:32 am, Vince Hradil <hrad...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jun 20, 9:45 am, LC's No-Spam Newsreading account
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> <nos...@mi.iasf.cnr.it> wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, David Fanning wrote:
>>> You can select any number of other browser options, including using an
>>> internal browser, I think. Anyway, worth a try.
>
>> I saw some notes about "Solaris and some Linux versions not supporting
>> an internal browser" (but I wouldn't be able to retrieve them, it is
>> really too painful to navigate the help with one window coming up at
>> each click)
>
>>> You can find the Web Browser preference under the General Preference
>>> tab in Preferences.
>
>> Preferences OF WHAT ?
>> I assume you do not mean firefox Preferences.
>
>> And the (first) help window which comes out invoking "?" has no
>> Preferences link at all.
>
>> Note I type "?" in the linemode client (the script
>> /lnx/idl/idl70/bin/idl on our system, or the process with executable
>> /lnx/idl/idl70/bin/bin.linux.x86/idl).
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>> The linemode client, not the development environment (which I never use)
>
>> No setup one can place in STARTUP.pro or in an .Xdefaults file ?
>
>> --
>> ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------
>> nos...@mi.iasf.cnr.it is a newsreading account used by more persons to
>> avoid unwanted spam. Any mail returning to this address will be rejected.
>> Users can disclose their e-mail address in the article if they wish so.
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> No, he means eclipse preferences:
> Window->Preferences->General->Web Browser
OSX users are stuck with the external browser. It's fast and the
content looks reasonable, but it opens a new tab or window every time
help is invoked, and gets lost in a sea of other browser windows, with
no easy way to find it. Not ideal; I'll stick with the 6.X help for a
while.
JD
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