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Re: IDL 8.1 is a Piece of Work [message #78049 is a reply to message #78048]

Wed, 19 October 2011 08:40

BLesht
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Ditto that - also random hangs that require a forced quit on a Mac.
8.0 runs the same code with no problem. Sigh...

On Oct 19, 10:06 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Have I mentioned that IDL 8.1 is a piece of work!?
>
> This morning, I have IDL 8.1 running, along with the
> IDL 8.1 on-line help, and a browser. When I type a
> command in the IDL window that is *suppose* to summon
> a widget program to the display, no widget program
> appears. Instead, my browser window is popped to the
> front of my IDL window with what looks like Japanese
> characters in the browser title bar!
>
> For God's sake!!
>
> I mention this now because this weirdness is completely
> reproducible at the moment, unlike other intermittent
> oddities that continue to plague me with this miserable
> excuse for software.
>
> Yesterday, for example, as I was developing some
> map projection software, I noticed that about
> every 5th or 6th time I would run the program that
> no graphics window would appear. No errors or anything
> like that. Just no response whatsoever. If I issued
> a Window command, then a window would appear and all
> would act normally until another 5 or 6 minutes would
> pass.
>
> Very, very strange and irritating behavior. :-(
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> 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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		Re: IDL 8.1 is a Piece of Work By: David Fanning on Thu, 20 October 2011 11:11
		Re: IDL 8.1 is a Piece of Work By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 20 October 2011 11:02
		Re: IDL 8.1 is a Piece of Work By: lecacheux.alain on Thu, 20 October 2011 01:43
		Re: IDL 8.1 is a Piece of Work By: David Fanning on Wed, 19 October 2011 15:43
		Re: IDL 8.1 is a Piece of Work By: Matt Francis on Wed, 19 October 2011 14:36
		Re: IDL 8.1 is a Piece of Work By: David Fanning on Wed, 19 October 2011 09:41
		Re: IDL 8.1 is a Piece of Work By: BLesht on Wed, 19 October 2011 08:40
		Re: IDL 8.1 is a Piece of Work By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 19 October 2011 09:19

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