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Re: Good IDL 8 guide? [message #77730 is a reply to message #77729]

Wed, 21 September 2011 06:31

Robin Wilson
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Registered: August 2010

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Thanks David - Looking forward to the booklet when it's finished.

I think getting them to upgrade to 8.1 might be a project for sometime
when I have a lot of free time...

Cheers,

Robin

On 21/09/2011 14:12, David Fanning wrote:
> Robin Wilson writes:
>
>> I've just got access to IDL 8.0 (the university has finally decided to
>> upgrade us...). I know there is a lot of new functionality (for example,
>> lists and hashes amongst various other things).
>>
>> I can find lists of new features, but is there a handy document
>> somewhere that gives a brief guide to the new features (eg. a short
>> section on each new feature). It strikes me as something that ITTVIS
>> themselves may have produced, or that people like David Fanning or Mike
>> Galloy may have written.
>>
>> Does this exist anywhere?
>
> I'm working on a small booklet, but it is heavy going
> and nowhere near finished. IDL 8 seems to generate more
> questions than answers. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> P.S. You couldn't get the IT guys to go all the way
> to 8.1, huh? I would say 8.1 is about half finished,
> at least in terms of graphics. I haven't turned my
> attention to lists and hashes yet, but I'm not
> terribly optimistic. 8.0, which I couldn't even
> use, was much worse.
>
>
>

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		Re: Good IDL 8 guide? By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 September 2011 08:53
		Re: Good IDL 8 guide? By: Brian Wolven on Wed, 21 September 2011 08:20
		Re: Good IDL 8 guide? By: Brian Wolven on Wed, 21 September 2011 08:39
		Re: Good IDL 8 guide? By: Mark Piper on Wed, 21 September 2011 08:17
		Re: Good IDL 8 guide? By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 September 2011 08:15
		Re: Good IDL 8 guide? By: Brian Wolven on Wed, 21 September 2011 08:05
		Re: Good IDL 8 guide? By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 September 2011 07:23
		Re: Good IDL 8 guide? By: d.poreh on Wed, 21 September 2011 07:12
		Re: Good IDL 8 guide? By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 September 2011 06:33
		Re: Good IDL 8 guide? By: Robin Wilson on Wed, 21 September 2011 06:31
		Re: Good IDL 8 guide? By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 September 2011 06:12

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