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Re: rewriting from IDL to PVwave [message #11111 is a reply to message #11110]

Thu, 12 March 1998 00:00

pit
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In article <mgs-1103982136260001@sc22-17-81.thegrid.net>,
mgs@sd.cybernex.net (Mike Schienle) writes:
> In article <MPG.f70d0ed635303f7989746@news.frii.com>, davidf@dfanning.com
> (David Fanning) wrote:
>
>> Elizabeth Jones (Elizabeth.Jones@lmco.com) writes:
>>
>>> Athoughts on how painful it would
>>> be for an absolute IDL/PVwave newbie to rewrite the IDL
>>> code to run under PVWave?
>>
>> My guess is that if the program did anything useful, that
>> it would be quite painful. :-) But it really depends
>> entirely on the program. Programs that use graphical
>> user interfaces would be the most painful, probably.
>
> I agree with David. Chances are you would quickly eat up any cost savings
> in staying with the PV-WAVE license by rewriting the IDL code. GUI's are
> quite different between the two as far as coding is concerned. Behind the
> GUI's are the event handlers, which are also quite different. No doubt
> that it can be done, just probably not cost-effectively.

As you (indirectly) said: This is only true for code that uses the
widget-capabilities of IDL. Code that does not use them normally will
run fine both in IDL and PV-Wave. At least my Image-reconstruction
package does, and I can assure that it *does* something usefull :-)

Peter

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		Re: rewriting from IDL to PVwave By: Ebeth Jones on Thu, 12 March 1998 00:00
		Re: rewriting from IDL to PVwave By: pit on Thu, 12 March 1998 00:00
		Re: rewriting from IDL to PVwave By: grunes on Wed, 11 March 1998 00:00
		Re: rewriting from IDL to PVwave By: mgs on Wed, 11 March 1998 00:00
		Re: rewriting from IDL to PVwave By: davidf on Wed, 11 March 1998 00:00

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