Re: Generating keyword parameters from strings [message #67395] |
Mon, 27 July 2009 14:26  |
Kenneth P. Bowman
Messages: 585 Registered: May 2000
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In article <MPG.24d76d9aa33164a7989836@news.giganews.com>,
David Fanning <news@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Paul van Delst writes:
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>> It certainly would make it easier for new users who wonder what
>> they've done wrong until they discover you can't pass arguments *out* from
>> procedures...
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> I don't think new users are meant to use direct
> graphics commands. That's why they are made as
> difficult to use as possible. These problems don't
> exist with iTools. :-)
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> Cheers,
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> David
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> P.S. *Are* there any new users? I can't think of
> one person using iTools, with the possible exception
> of Ken Bowman, who always seems to be complaining
> about them. ;-)
Well, I don't teach iTools graphics when in my beginning IDL
course. The students are supposed to be learning to program,
not point, click, and drag. And *programming* the iTools is not
for the faint of heart.
I do use iTools when I have to do 3-D interactive graphics because
I am not smart enough to write my own object graphics programs.
Cheers, Ken
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