| running IDL as a 'sleeping' process [message #78890] |
Tue, 03 January 2012 11:48 |
desertdryad
Messages: 39
Registered: August 2011
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Hi folks -
This is a bit of an ignorant newbie question. I am developing a
fairly complex bit of code, that in the long run will ideally entail
daily data retrieval from the web, parsing that data and making
several calculations, spitting out results, and then going to 'sleep'
until the following day, when it all repeats. I'm wondering if this
is even something IDl can *do*. I'm sure there are better platforms
to develop such a sort of program, but I'm hoping not to reinvent the
wheel on the development I've done so far (I've built several modules
already in IDL for this project). I'm currently worknig under
Windows, but it's highly likely this project will be migrating to a
Linux OS.
Is this sort of daily repeating process in the realm of possibility
for IDL to do? Should I be thinking of some sort of 'wrapper' program
that calls IDL to do this? I know just enough C/C++ to get in
trouble :) but not much of anything like Java and the like. Comments
and suggestions welcome. Thanks!
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