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Re: Happy Reasons to use IDL 8.1 [message #76216 is a reply to message #76214]

Tue, 24 May 2011 08:34

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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David Fanning writes:

> I've discovered another happy reason to love IDL 8.1
> this morning. I couldn't figure out why a main-level
> program wouldn't compile. It didn't like this line:
>
> img = Image(image, ...)
>
> Apparently, you can't define an image variable with
> the name "image" and then use it as the argument
> to the Image function.

No problem doing this at the IDL command line:

IDL> W = WINDOW(DIMENSIONS=[800,800)
IDL> image = cgdemodata(7)
IDL> img = image(image,/current)

I don't know *what* is going on with my main-level
program. I know main-level programs don't really
work in IDL 8.1, so maybe it just has something to
do with that. Well, they work, just don't ever
make a programming error in one, or you are hosed
for that IDL session. I'm not sure they get
recompiled correctly. Maybe that is what happened.

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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