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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
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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? By: Doug Edmundson on Fri, 16 October 2009 07:50
		Re: does anyone NOT have to force quit SWT/IDLHelp on Mac OS X? By: Robbie on Fri, 16 October 2009 00:34
		Re: does anyone NOT have to force quit SWT/IDLHelp on Mac OS X? By: Doug Edmundson on Thu, 15 October 2009 15:56
		Re: does anyone NOT have to force quit SWT/IDLHelp on Mac OS X? By: wallabadah on Thu, 15 October 2009 15:23
		Re: does anyone NOT have to force quit SWT/IDLHelp on Mac OS X? By: Doug Edmundson on Thu, 15 October 2009 10:37

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