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Re: IDL 7 bookmarks [message #61325 is a reply to message #61273]

Tue, 15 July 2008 07:22

Kenneth P. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000

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In article <MPG.22e64b3729f2bdd798a3e2@news.frii.com>,
David Fanning <news@dfanning.com> wrote:

> Haje Korth writes:
>
>> Then again, the iTools are not either.
>
> Alas, I still don't know how to work an iTool. I keep hoping
> Ken is going to write a book about it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

The only things I use the iTools for are problems where true interactivity
is essential. For me this means occasional use of the zoom and pan features
of iPlot, and the 3-D interactivity of iSurface and iVolume.

Before I could begin to write a book, I would have to actually understand
how the iTools work, and that is not likely to happen soon. I would also
want to have a much better understanding of objects, and given my current
workload, that is not likely to happen soon either. (I just realized that
this implies that I do understand other parts of IDL, which may be less
true than I would like to think. ;-) )

The iTools include a lot of things that don't fit my working style
(data importers, etc.). I prefer to handle those things myself in
conventional IDL code and then pass only the data that I want to
use to the iTool.

I would also be nervous that ITTVIS considers the iTools and their
documentation to be "finished".

I did put some simple iTool examples in my library

http://csrp.tamu.edu/downloads/idl/bowman_lib.zip

in case anyone wants to have a look, but I don't consider myself
an expert. I think Mike Galloy is the only one I would put in that
category.

Ken

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		IDL 7 bookmarks By: Haje Korth on Mon, 14 July 2008 06:50
		Re: IDL 7 bookmarks By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Tue, 15 July 2008 07:22
		Re: IDL 7 bookmarks By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 15 July 2008 23:00
		Re: IDL 7 bookmarks By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 16 July 2008 09:11
		Re: IDL 7 bookmarks By: David Fanning on Tue, 15 July 2008 07:17
		Re: IDL 7 bookmarks By: David Fanning on Tue, 15 July 2008 07:12
		Re: IDL 7 bookmarks By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 15 July 2008 06:56
		Re: IDL 7 bookmarks By: Vince Hradil on Tue, 15 July 2008 05:56
		Re: IDL 7 bookmarks By: David Fanning on Tue, 15 July 2008 05:51
		Re: IDL 7 bookmarks By: Haje Korth on Tue, 15 July 2008 05:26
		Re: IDL 7 bookmarks By: David Fanning on Mon, 14 July 2008 12:43

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