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Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? [message #77550 is a reply to message #77549]

Thu, 08 September 2011 06:23

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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alx writes:

> I guess that IDL 8.1 would be usable, but actually, on my Windows
> machines, the Workbench is not ! As stated in a previous message, I am
> facing frequent Workbench crashes in the course of long sessions. The
> crashes may occur during graphic screen plotting as well as during the
> execution of a simple statement. I even got one crash while only
> moving the mouse ... In my opinion, the crashes might be due to the
> accumulation with time of "small" errors, like internal memory leaks,
> default in acquiring handles, etc... They certainly are related to the
> Workbench, since I never had one by using the IDL line command.

I tried running this offending program at the IDL command
line this morning. It still crashes, but with an error
message instead of buggering my machine. The error was this:

%Unable to allocate memory: Creating new procedure frame.

The line causing the error was one in which I was trying
to create a function colorbar. (I actually got the program I am
running from someone at ITTVIS.)

I have passed this information along to the support folks
at ITTVIS. Maybe it will help them track this down.

If I want to continue learning about the new features
in IDL 8 (questionable right now!) I guess I'll have
to use the IDL command line to do it. :-(

Cheers,

David

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

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		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Fri, 09 September 2011 07:21
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Fri, 09 September 2011 06:46
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: M. Katz on Thu, 08 September 2011 23:07
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 September 2011 20:18
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: Paul[3] on Thu, 08 September 2011 19:40
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 September 2011 10:07
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 08 September 2011 09:33
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: lecacheux.alain on Thu, 08 September 2011 09:22
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 September 2011 08:41
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 September 2011 08:32
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 08 September 2011 08:09
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 September 2011 06:46
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 September 2011 06:23
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: greg.addr on Thu, 08 September 2011 03:53
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: lecacheux.alain on Thu, 08 September 2011 01:59
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 11 September 2011 12:52

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