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Re: IDL Help on Mac OS [message #66997 is a reply to message #66995]

Fri, 26 June 2009 08:00

Kenneth P. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000

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<f3755a83-f7d7-440c-b677-3ea69b403b9c@l35g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
wallabadah <write.to.wpowell@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ken - You should hardly be surprised the the IDL Help is "so un-Mac-
> like" - the whole X-windows thing is pretty awful! I have the same
> problem with the SWT/idlhelpserver remaining running (have to force
> quit it), but I've never noticed it using a lot of CPU cycles.
> I find the browser-based help to be fine - I can have one tab open
> with IDL's documentation, and another open with comp.lang.idl-pvwave.
> Haven't touched the whole idlde/eclipse thing in months - I prefer the
> Terminal/text editor combination.
>
> Will

The Help system itself (inside the browser window) seems to work pretty well. I'm
not complaining about it. It is the framework within which it exists that I find
so irritating.

This is IDL 7.1 running under OS X 10.5.7. I think Help worked more smoothly even with
IDL 7.0, but the Help has changed so many times that I can't remember.

Ken

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		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: JDS on Fri, 26 June 2009 09:17
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Fri, 26 June 2009 08:00
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: David Fanning on Fri, 26 June 2009 07:18
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: David Klassen on Fri, 26 June 2009 07:11
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: wallabadah on Thu, 25 June 2009 21:21
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 25 June 2009 09:49
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: David Fanning on Thu, 25 June 2009 09:20
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: JDS on Thu, 25 June 2009 09:00
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 24 June 2009 11:05
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 24 June 2009 09:19
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: rogass on Wed, 24 June 2009 09:09
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: David Fanning on Wed, 24 June 2009 08:54

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