| Re: Interactive image viewer in IDL? [message #8764] |
Tue, 22 April 1997 00:00 |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Eric Williams writes:
> We have recently installed IDL on our system, where we also have IRAF
> well in place. There will be users that are familiar with the XIMTOOL
> application that is put out by IRAF, that will want something similar
> in IDL. What XIMTOOL does is provide an interactive widget that
> allows a user to manipulate the scaling, colortables, zoom, and section
> of images it displays.
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> Does anyone have or know of an IDL equivalent to XIMTOOL. I could take
> the time to write one but I would rather make sure that it hasn't been
> done already. This seems like something people might have done.
I have spent a lot of time lately writing (and offering to this newsgroup)
many of the tools necessary to build this application. (Completely
revised tools are written and should be available soon.) In fact, building
tools like this will be the focus of my (hopefully!) soon to be released
book about IDL.
As I have worked on the book, many of my ideas about widget programs
have changed and been sharpened by the need for these tools to work
together and to be interchangeable in building new widget programs.
In other words, what I want is a system for building widget programs
that make the programs extremely modular and easy to maintain and
extend. This is, in fact, the focus of the IDL Programming classes I
teach and the consulting work I do.
If you can't find exactly the application you need or you can't find
the parts to put it together from the bits and pieces that are
available on my web page and elsewhere, I would be happy to
sit down and build it with you (for a small fee, of course. :-)
I'd even build it myself (for a larger fee), but we would both
learn more if we worked together. I'm quite sure we could
have a tool with as much or more of the functionality of
XIMTOOL in two days of work.
Cheers!
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Customizable IDL Programming Courses
Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
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