| Re: IDL help error for Scale3 procedure. [message #65422] |
Wed, 04 March 2009 15:26  |
pgrigis
Messages: 436
Registered: September 2007
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Mark wrote:
> I just had an hour's work eaten by an error that would be amusing if
> it happened to someone else. I'm running IDL 6.4 on an Intel Mac, OS X
> 10.4.11. Have an X11 window opened to a remote unix machine on which
> I'm running IDL.
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> I type "?" . Under the Index tab I type in "Scale3", without the
> quotes, of course. . As soon as I click on "Scale3 procedure" in the
> menu at left or just hit return, the IDL help window and X11 window
> both disappear without a trace.
>
> This just happens with scale3, not with any other command I've tried.
I think that probably just means "scale3" is on the
index of forbidden routines. Surely you must have known
about the Index Routinorum Prohibitorum?
Ciao,
Paolo
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> This is just strange enough that I thought I'd ask if this happens to
> anyone else, and if they have a clue as to what's going on....
>
> Mark
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| Re: IDL help error for Scale3 procedure. [message #65433 is a reply to message #65422] |
Wed, 04 March 2009 12:11  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Mark writes:
> I just had an hour's work eaten by an error that would be amusing if
> it happened to someone else. I'm running IDL 6.4 on an Intel Mac, OS X
> 10.4.11. Have an X11 window opened to a remote unix machine on which
> I'm running IDL.
>
> I type "?" . Under the Index tab I type in "Scale3", without the
> quotes, of course. . As soon as I click on "Scale3 procedure" in the
> menu at left or just hit return, the IDL help window and X11 window
> both disappear without a trace.
>
> This just happens with scale3, not with any other command I've tried.
>
> This is just strange enough that I thought I'd ask if this happens to
> anyone else, and if they have a clue as to what's going on....
Coyote tells me it happens to him fairly frequently, but
only after he has been hitting the peyote buttons.
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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| Re: IDL help error for Scale3 procedure. [message #65504 is a reply to message #65422] |
Thu, 05 March 2009 08:41 |
astroboy2k
Messages: 34
Registered: July 2007
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On Mar 4, 6:26 pm, Paolo <pgri...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think that probably just means "scale3" is on the
> index of forbidden routines. Surely you must have known
> about the Index Routinorum Prohibitorum?
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> Ciao,
> Paolo
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>> Mark
But, but, scale3 is on page 124 in the second edition of David's book!
Heresy! Heresy, I say!
Seriously, I'd think scale3 was verboten and crashed help for obscure
reasons, except that it actually works on code I recently wrote. I'm
not sure if it's actually doing anything, or doing what it's supposed
to, but at least it doesn't crash the program.
Well, I was able to look up the documentation on the web. Just sort of
a strange thing to have happened. I've never run across that before.
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