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Re: Illegal operand error with window,/free [message #90931 is a reply to message #90911]

Thu, 14 May 2015 07:30

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On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 7:47:25 AM UTC-6, wlandsman wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 9:19:10 AM UTC-4, Jeff B wrote:
>
>>
>> FWIW, I tried on my Mac (running Yosemite) and did not get an error.
>
> Thanks. It turns out I get the error the first time I use any command requiring X-windows.
>
> IDL> device,get_screen_size=xx
> % Program caused arithmetic error: Floating illegal operand
>
> so there must be something unusual about my X-Windows setup or screen (I use XQuartz 2.7.7 on Yosemite). Anyway it is a minor problem (an error message that appears once) so I will live with it for now.
>
> --Wayne

Hi Wayne,

For what it's worth, I see the same error message. I'm also using Quartz 277 on Yosemite, although I'm running IDL within the IDL Python Notebook (shameless plug for IDL 8.5).

I would ignore the error, since I have no idea how we would even attempt to fix it. :-)

-Chris

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		Illegal operand error with window,/free By: wlandsman on Mon, 11 May 2015 10:24
		Re: Illegal operand error with window,/free By: Helder Marchetto on Tue, 12 May 2015 01:25
		Re: Illegal operand error with window,/free By: wlandsman on Tue, 12 May 2015 05:03
		Re: Illegal operand error with window,/free By: Helder Marchetto on Tue, 12 May 2015 05:13
		Re: Illegal operand error with window,/free By: wlandsman on Tue, 12 May 2015 05:47
		Re: Illegal operand error with window,/free By: Burch on Tue, 12 May 2015 06:19
		Re: Illegal operand error with window,/free By: wlandsman on Tue, 12 May 2015 06:47
		Re: Illegal operand error with window,/free By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Thu, 14 May 2015 07:30
		Re: Illegal operand error with window,/free By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 14 May 2015 09:54
		Re: Illegal operand error with window,/free By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Mon, 18 May 2015 12:12
		Re: Illegal operand error with window,/free By: Fabzi on Mon, 18 May 2015 23:50

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