| IDL - OS X Mountain Lion [message #80880] |
Thu, 19 July 2012 01:23  |
stefan.meingast
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Hi
With the upcoming release of Mountain Lion (presumably next week) I was wondering if I will have any troubles with my IDL 8.1 when I upgrade immediately. Has anyone tested it with the Golden Master or any Beta versions yet?
thanks
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| Re: IDL - OS X Mountain Lion [message #81078 is a reply to message #80880] |
Thu, 09 August 2012 10:47  |
dre1138
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On Thursday, July 19, 2012 2:23:40 AM UTC-6, Stefan wrote:
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Hi Stefan and Mac users,
To all those who asked about X11 and Mountain Lion, there is some news. Exelis VIS has found that IDL graphics have problems running on XQuartz version 2.7.2. You might see errors such as "failure to acquire window rendering context" or an outright crash. It is recommended that IDL customers stick with 2.7.1 or earlier for the time being.
Since Apple no longer ships X11 with OS X, users will have to install XQuartz themselves. Much like Java, the OS will direct the user to the download site, so consider finding and installing XQuartz 2.7.1 instead.
One can uninstall 2.7.2 by deleting /Applications/Utilities/X11.app and the /opt/X11 folder. As always, trust but verify (via the web).
Unofficial, personal commentary... In my experience, without knowing the results of actual timing tests, Mountain Lion does feel appreciably faster. For what it's worth, so far for me with my work and home Macs, Mountain Lion has been a good update - better than the initial Leopard and Lion releases.
Cheers,
Doug
Exelis VIS
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| Re: IDL - OS X Mountain Lion [message #81771 is a reply to message #80880] |
Fri, 19 October 2012 10:03 |
chris_torrence@NOSPAM
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On Friday, October 19, 2012 10:49:53 AM UTC-6, tom.b...@gmail.com wrote:
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Hi Tom,
Are you running XQuartz 2.7.4?
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
Another thing to try is running the plot function in IDL widgets instead of the Java shell. Try this:
p = plot(/test, /widgets)
The controls on the bottom are a bit different, and you need to use the property sheet to change the properties.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Chris
ExelisVIS
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| Re: IDL - OS X Mountain Lion [message #82658 is a reply to message #80880] |
Thu, 10 January 2013 07:55 |
chris_torrence@NOSPAM
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On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 1:46:51 PM UTC-7, jiash...@gmail.com wrote:
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> On Friday, October 19, 2012 10:03:39 AM UTC-7, Chris Torrence wrote:
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>> On Friday, October 19, 2012 10:49:53 AM UTC-6, tom.b...@gmail.com wrote:
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Hi Shenyue,
That sounds more like a Unix path issue. Perhaps IDL/ENVI were on your Unix path before, and somehow they got removed? You could try navigating to your <IDL_DIR>/bin directory and doing a "source" on the appropriate idl_setup file.
Hope this helps!
-Chris
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| Re: IDL - OS X Mountain Lion [message #82674 is a reply to message #81771] |
Wed, 09 January 2013 12:46 |
jiashenyue
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Registered: January 2013
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Hi Chris,
I've got a problem to start IDL and ENVI from Quarz under OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion. When I tried to type the command "IDL" and "ENVI" in xterm as I usually did in Lion, I got "command not found" error. Do you know how to solve this problem?
Best
Shenyue
On Friday, October 19, 2012 10:03:39 AM UTC-7, Chris Torrence wrote:
> On Friday, October 19, 2012 10:49:53 AM UTC-6, tom.b...@gmail.com wrote:
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>> I upgraded, and found everything to work fairly well. However, I've recently discovered an issue with the plot function. It won't let me modify the plot in anyway through the GUI interface and it refuses to save the output. I think it's related to Xquartz but nothing I've tried so far has fixed it.
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> Hi Tom,
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> Are you running XQuartz 2.7.4?
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> http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
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> Another thing to try is running the plot function in IDL widgets instead of the Java shell. Try this:
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> p = plot(/test, /widgets)
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> The controls on the bottom are a bit different, and you need to use the property sheet to change the properties.
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> Hope this helps.
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> Cheers,
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> Chris
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> ExelisVIS
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