| Re: does anyone NOT have to force quit SWT/IDLHelp on Mac OS X? [message #68277] |
Fri, 16 October 2009 07:50 |
Doug Edmundson
Messages: 58
Registered: November 2005
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Hi Robbie,
> It would be great if the standalone IDLHelp worked more like it used
> to in IDL 6.4. I often find that I accidently close the Safari window,
> so I have the IDLHelp application running, but no instance of Safari.
> Would it be plausible to have a menu option to open a new safari
> window pointing to the help webpage of the currently running help
> server?
Good idea, but offhand, I don't know if it's possible. I'll add a note
to the CR to take a look at that too.
Cheers,
Doug
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| Re: does anyone NOT have to force quit SWT/IDLHelp on Mac OS X? [message #68283 is a reply to message #68277] |
Fri, 16 October 2009 00:34  |
Robbie
Messages: 165
Registered: February 2006
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Hi Doug,
It would be great if the standalone IDLHelp worked more like it used
to in IDL 6.4. I often find that I accidently close the Safari window,
so I have the IDLHelp application running, but no instance of Safari.
Would it be plausible to have a menu option to open a new safari
window pointing to the help webpage of the currently running help
server?
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| Re: does anyone NOT have to force quit SWT/IDLHelp on Mac OS X? [message #68284 is a reply to message #68283] |
Thu, 15 October 2009 15:56 |
Doug Edmundson
Messages: 58
Registered: November 2005
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Will,
wallabadah wrote:
> On Oct 16, 4:37 am, Doug Edmundson <do...@ittvis.com> wrote:
>> Hi Will,
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> wallabadah wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> Subject line says it all - I think this is probably an Eclipse-related
>>> problem rather than IDL per se, but it's annoying nonetheless. I'm not
>>> running the idlde, I've observed this in all versions of IDL 7.X and
>>> Mac OS X 10.5.x to 10.6.x.
>>> There was some discussion of this on the list back in June (http://
>>> groups.google.com.au/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_threa d/thread/
>>> ef8263aa1f94fa9c/dfcfaa170ee92e5c?
>>> hl=en&lnk=gst&q=SWT#dfcfaa170ee92e5c), but no resolution was reached.
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>> Will.
>> We are aware of the bug. In fact, I drew the short straw and am
>> assigned to fix it. ;-) Hopefully the Eclipse code will be agreeable.
>> If you ever need to contact our technical support on this issue, the
>> bug is logged as CR 55132. The plan is to have some kind of resolution
>> to this by the next release of IDL.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Doug
>
> Apologies, probably should have checked the bug log first (I assume
> you can do this somewhere?). Anyway, I managed to come up with a short-
> term solution: stopping the idlhelpserver explicitly with:
>
> idlhelp -command shutdown
>
> Hope this helps some people out until the next release of IDL.
>
> Will.
No apologies required - customers don't have direct access to our bug
tracking database. Just thought I'd mention the CR number in case
anyone wanted to add a "me too" to the bug. Sometimes this helps get a
CR bumped up in priority. In this case, the CR is already high enough.
Added your tip to the CR's notes - thanks!
Cheers,
Doug
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| Re: does anyone NOT have to force quit SWT/IDLHelp on Mac OS X? [message #68285 is a reply to message #68284] |
Thu, 15 October 2009 15:23 |
wallabadah
Messages: 28
Registered: November 2005
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On Oct 16, 4:37 am, Doug Edmundson <do...@ittvis.com> wrote:
> Hi Will,
>
>
>
>
>
> wallabadah wrote:
>> Hi All,
>
>> Subject line says it all - I think this is probably an Eclipse-related
>> problem rather than IDL per se, but it's annoying nonetheless. I'm not
>> running the idlde, I've observed this in all versions of IDL 7.X and
>> Mac OS X 10.5.x to 10.6.x.
>
>> There was some discussion of this on the list back in June (http://
>> groups.google.com.au/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_threa d/thread/
>> ef8263aa1f94fa9c/dfcfaa170ee92e5c?
>> hl=en&lnk=gst&q=SWT#dfcfaa170ee92e5c), but no resolution was reached.
>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>> Will.
>
> We are aware of the bug. In fact, I drew the short straw and am
> assigned to fix it. ;-) Hopefully the Eclipse code will be agreeable.
> If you ever need to contact our technical support on this issue, the
> bug is logged as CR 55132. The plan is to have some kind of resolution
> to this by the next release of IDL.
>
> Cheers,
> Doug
Apologies, probably should have checked the bug log first (I assume
you can do this somewhere?). Anyway, I managed to come up with a short-
term solution: stopping the idlhelpserver explicitly with:
idlhelp -command shutdown
Hope this helps some people out until the next release of IDL.
Will.
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| Re: does anyone NOT have to force quit SWT/IDLHelp on Mac OS X? [message #68286 is a reply to message #68285] |
Thu, 15 October 2009 10:37 |
Doug Edmundson
Messages: 58
Registered: November 2005
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Hi Will,
wallabadah wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Subject line says it all - I think this is probably an Eclipse-related
> problem rather than IDL per se, but it's annoying nonetheless. I'm not
> running the idlde, I've observed this in all versions of IDL 7.X and
> Mac OS X 10.5.x to 10.6.x.
>
> There was some discussion of this on the list back in June (http://
> groups.google.com.au/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_threa d/thread/
> ef8263aa1f94fa9c/dfcfaa170ee92e5c?
> hl=en&lnk=gst&q=SWT#dfcfaa170ee92e5c), but no resolution was reached.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Will.
We are aware of the bug. In fact, I drew the short straw and am
assigned to fix it. ;-) Hopefully the Eclipse code will be agreeable.
If you ever need to contact our technical support on this issue, the
bug is logged as CR 55132. The plan is to have some kind of resolution
to this by the next release of IDL.
Cheers,
Doug
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