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Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? [message #77556]

Wed, 07 September 2011 20:50

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Folks,

I don't want to put a big damper on all the fun, but
I have a serious question. Is anyone actually using
IDL 8.1 and function graphics?

Not only are function graphics commands completely
opaque to me when I just try to do the simplest things,
but in the past several days I have COMPLETELY buggered
my machine four times running function graphics
programs! This is a nifty little machine, with
a pretty darned expensive graphics card, the very
latest Windows 7, JAVA updates, etc. And it has been
completely and utterly buggered four times!
This is four times more than this machine has been
buggered since I got the damn thing.

I can't even catch its attention long enough to
summon the task manager to kill a process. I have
to kill the whole machine by holding the start button
in for 5 seconds. It takes about 20 minutes to re-boot
and get going again. And as God is my witness, I don't
dare run the function graphics program again, for fear
I'll be twiddling my thumbs for another half hour!

I don't know. This just seems utterly hopeless to me. :-(

Cheers,

David

P.S. Please, someone, give me some good news! Or at least
some ideas for things I can try.

--
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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