| Re: Waiting for Godot [message #82769] |
Fri, 18 January 2013 03:13 |
Carsten Lechte
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On 17/01/13 18:47, Bob Plano wrote:
> I just make a series of jpegs or tiffs or whatever, and useQuicktime
> pro to output them as avi or jpeg or whatever.
Back in the day I made nice-looking eps plots with direct graphics,
and used image manipulation programs (like imagemagick) to convert to
pixel graphics / movies / animated gifs. Unless you have hundreds of
thousands of frames, it might be worthwhile to have high-quality
single frame plots, and do the movie assembling independently of the
plotting.
chl
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| Re: Waiting for Godot [message #82777 is a reply to message #82769] |
Thu, 17 January 2013 09:47  |
astroboy.20000
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On Jan 16, 12:20 pm, David Fanning <n...@idlcoyote.com> wrote:
> Folks,
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> Has anyone mentioned that the IDL documentation is terrible?
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> I'm looking for font tables and information on how to create an AVI
> movie in IDL. I know both of these things exist, somewhere. But, they
> are not indexed in any sense that I can discover. Does anyone know where
> this information might be in the IDL documentation?
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> Thanks,
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> 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.")
I just make a series of jpegs or tiffs or whatever, and use Quicktime
pro to output them as avi or jpeg or whatever.
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| Re: Waiting for Godot [message #82785 is a reply to message #82784] |
Thu, 17 January 2013 05:42 |
Mark Piper
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On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 12:17:15 PM UTC-7, Mike Galloy wrote:
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> Back a few years ago the help in the Workbench used to have a link a the
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> bottom of every page where you could report a problem about that page.
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> That's gone, but the new online docs have a button for making a comment
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> on each page and an email address to give feedback.
For reference: http://www.exelisvis.com/docs/CreatingVideo.html.
mp
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| Re: Waiting for Godot [message #82792 is a reply to message #82785] |
Wed, 16 January 2013 11:17 |
Michael Galloy
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On 1/16/13 11:40 AM, David Fanning wrote:
> fawltylanguage@gmail.com writes:
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>> that's normal. Init/Cleanup can be called directly only from the
>> Init/Cleanup method of a subclass. This is in the docs :-) (under
>> 'The Object Lifecycle')
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> Exactly. You would think whoever wrote the example should know that.
> :-)
Back a few years ago the help in the Workbench used to have a link a the
bottom of every page where you could report a problem about that page.
That's gone, but the new online docs have a button for making a comment
on each page and an email address to give feedback.
Mike
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Michael Galloy
www.michaelgalloy.com
Modern IDL: A Guide to IDL Programming (http://modernidl.idldev.com)
Research Mathematician
Tech-X Corporation
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| Re: Waiting for Godot [message #82794 is a reply to message #82792] |
Wed, 16 January 2013 10:40 |
David Fanning
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fawltylanguage@gmail.com writes:
> that's normal. Init/Cleanup can be called directly only from the Init/Cleanup method of a subclass. This is in the docs :-) (under 'The Object Lifecycle')
Exactly. You would think whoever wrote the example should know that. :-)
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: Waiting for Godot [message #82795 is a reply to message #82794] |
Wed, 16 January 2013 10:19 |
Lajos Foldy
Messages: 176
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On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:05:48 PM UTC+1, David Fanning wrote:
> David Fanning writes:
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>> Ah, thank you. I was trying "create AVI movie". And, the only time I
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>> think "Hershey" is if I'm craving a snack.
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> Alas, even finding the right page doesn't improve my opinion of the
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> documentation. In the AVI example, they "cleanup" the IDLffVideo object
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> with this command:
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> videoObj.CleanUp
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> When I call that method (IDL 8.2.1), I get this error message:
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> % Lifecycle methods cannot be called in this context.
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> To destroy the object and release the file, I have to do this:
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> Obj_Destroy, videoObj
Hi David,
that's normal. Init/Cleanup can be called directly only from the Init/Cleanup method of a subclass. This is in the docs :-) (under 'The Object Lifecycle')
regards,
Lajos
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| Re: Waiting for Godot [message #82796 is a reply to message #82795] |
Wed, 16 January 2013 10:05 |
David Fanning
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David Fanning writes:
> Ah, thank you. I was trying "create AVI movie". And, the only time I
> think "Hershey" is if I'm craving a snack.
Alas, even finding the right page doesn't improve my opinion of the
documentation. In the AVI example, they "cleanup" the IDLffVideo object
with this command:
videoObj.CleanUp
When I call that method (IDL 8.2.1), I get this error message:
% Lifecycle methods cannot be called in this context.
To destroy the object and release the file, I have to do this:
Obj_Destroy, videoObj
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: Waiting for Godot [message #82797 is a reply to message #82796] |
Wed, 16 January 2013 09:57 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
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fawltylanguage@gmail.com writes:
> IDL help's search is your friend, try "hershey' and 'creating video'.
Ah, thank you. I was trying "create AVI movie". And, the only time I
think "Hershey" is if I'm craving a snack.
Still, you have to do some searching throught the Search results.
Nothing like "font tables" anywhere to be found. :-(
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: Waiting for Godot [message #82798 is a reply to message #82797] |
Wed, 16 January 2013 09:48 |
Lajos Foldy
Messages: 176
Registered: December 2011
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On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 6:20:56 PM UTC+1, David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
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> Has anyone mentioned that the IDL documentation is terrible?
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> I'm looking for font tables and information on how to create an AVI
>
> movie in IDL. I know both of these things exist, somewhere. But, they
>
> are not indexed in any sense that I can discover. Does anyone know where
>
> this information might be in the IDL documentation?
>
Hi David,
IDL help's search is your friend, try "hershey' and 'creating video'.
regards,
Lajos
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