| Running IDL daily as an automatic task [message #80673] |
Tue, 26 June 2012 17:41  |
cedgar3@alaska.edu
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Can't find much about this, perhaps someone can help. Have a few IDL procedures which need to run daily, feed to website. At one point there was a command line version for windows, what happened to it? I am now running IDL 8 on a Windows server 2008/R2 box, so can't implement some of the suggestions found on this forum, such as create a linux cron task. Rather not use the IDL 'wait' feature, would complicate other work. Many thanks!
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| Re: Running IDL daily as an automatic task [message #82531 is a reply to message #80673] |
Mon, 17 December 2012 09:59  |
greg.addr
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> Unless you paid about $25K for it, it's doubtful. :-)
It was pretty expensive, but not *that* expensive!
Well, how about that - removing the "-rt=" seems to have done the trick! I wasn't expecting that to work. Thanks very much, Heinz - I'm really happy about it!
Fortunately, this program is just for my use, so on this occasion I don't need to worry about flash screens elsewhere.
cheers,
Greg
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| Re: Running IDL daily as an automatic task [message #82532 is a reply to message #80673] |
Mon, 17 December 2012 09:00 |
David Fanning
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greg.addr@googlemail.com writes:
> I have a development licence (at least, I think that's what I have!)
Unless you paid about $25K for it, it's doubtful. :-)
> So if I type that command at the windows command prompt, it runs fine
> with no splash. If I put the same command in the windows 'scheduled
> tasks' list, I come back in the morning to find the splash waiting
> on my desktop.
I think Heinz is right. Your Windows version of IDL has
a run-time license built into it, so you can run
IDL run-time files without a splash screen. But,
anyone else running a run-time license will have to
run it on the IDL Virtual Machine (which is also
installed in a typical Windows install), which
ALWAYS throws up a splash screen.
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Running IDL daily as an automatic task [message #82533 is a reply to message #80673] |
Mon, 17 December 2012 08:48 |
Heinz Stege
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Registered: January 2003
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Hi Greg,
can you try
idlrt.exe prog.sav
instead of
idlrt.exe -rt=prog.sav
? (Insert pathes and double quotes as necessary.) This should start
the runtime-mode instead of the virtual machine. The runtime-mode
needs a license file, but doesn't popup a splash screen.
Cheers, Heinz
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| Re: Running IDL daily as an automatic task [message #82535 is a reply to message #80673] |
Mon, 17 December 2012 08:09 |
greg.addr
Messages: 160
Registered: May 2007
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I have a development licence (at least, I think that's what I have!) So if I type that command at the windows command prompt, it runs fine with no splash. If I put the same command in the windows 'scheduled tasks' list, I come back in the morning to find the splash waiting on my desktop.
Maybe it has something to do with the owner of the process? When I run it myself, it's obviously mine. Perhaps as a scheduled task, it's a system user, and the licence doesn't like that?
I'm afraid it's probably something meaner than that, though. I discovered today that if I log in remotely (via RDP), I also can't run idl.exe from the command prompt. The licence seems to block anything running when I'm not physically at the computer (I have a MAC address-locked licence).
greg
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| Re: Running IDL daily as an automatic task [message #82536 is a reply to message #80673] |
Mon, 17 December 2012 06:41 |
David Fanning
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greg.addr@googlemail.com writes:
> I tried to do a similar thing, but using idlrt.exe with a compiled .sav file:
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> idlrt.exe -rt=prog.sav
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> It works fine from the windows command line, but if I set it to run when I'm not at the computer, it seems to change behaviour, producing a splash screen like the virtual machine. Of course, it gets stuck, because there's no-one to click it.
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> Is it supposed to do this? Is there a way to run a .sav file using idl.exe?
The run-time version of IDL always displays a splash screen.
There is no way around it, except to pay to remove it with
a "development" license.
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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