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Re: IDL app launched from an icon [message #13007 is a reply to message #13005]

Sat, 26 September 1998 00:00

krieger
Messages: 7
Registered: June 1997

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In article <6uh076$7oc@hacgate2.hac.com>, "Charlie Solomon" <crsolomon@west.raytheon.com> wrote:
> Can someone help with this?...

> do you know of a way to allow a user to simply double click on an icon on
> the desktop, which compiles and runs an idl procedure automatically without
> any further effort by the user? in other words, i'd like to make an idl
> procedure act as a separate application. i searched through the help pages,
> but didn't find what i was looking for. thanks in advance for any advice!

For Windows, create a link to IDL on your desktop (simply copy the IDL
icon from the start menu folder to the desktop folder).

Write a short IDL script "startapp" to start your program:

==================

cd, "appdir" ; needed because IDL 5.1 doesn't recognize the working
; directory in the link property sheet anymore
restore, "myapp.sav"

myapp ; the main routine of your application

exit

==================

In the link property sheet modify the "Target" slot, e.g.:

C:\Rsi\Idl51\Idlde.exe @appdir\startapp

In the "startapp" script you could also, instead of restoring the
precompiled application, directly run the compilation itself.

Simply replace the line with the restore command by

compile myapp1.pro
compile myapp2.pro
etc. pp.

Hope that helps.

Karl

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