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| widgets are more than useful..... [message #9268] |
Fri, 13 June 1997 00:00 |
Paul van Delst
Messages: 364
Registered: March 1997
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David Fanning wrote:
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> William Connolley writes:
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>> 2. Widgets seem to be particularly complex, but you probably don't need them.
>> As far as I can tell, they are mostly useful for polished-product programs and
>> not so useful for research-type work.
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> Now hold on there just a minute, William! In my humble, professional
> opinion I find that people who hold this view (present company excluded,
> of course) don't generally know how to write widget programs.
> Most of the time they have tried to learn how to do it from the IDL
> manuals. When they are shown how easy it really is, they often start
> taking the view that widget programs are essential to their research and
> they don't know how they worked without them.
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I have to agree with David. I don't know what I'd do without widgets. I
have spent months writing IDL code to simulate various effects I would
expect in upcoming satellite calibration measurements. The widget
interface which lets me change anything I want with a click or a slide
took about 0.5days (credit must go to a number of IDL programmers out
there - most of who(m?) are listed in Fanning Consulting's web page -
who's code is there for all to see and learn). No more typing a bzillion
keywords on the command line for me. Widgets are the best thing since
sliced bread. Now if I can just get the axes to plot where I want them
in IDL 5.0 object graphics plots....... :)
happy widgeting,
Paul van Delst
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