| Re: IDL for windows :-{ [message #15413 is a reply to message #15401] |
Thu, 13 May 1999 00:00  |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Mike Klein (mgk@pogo.ab.umd.edu) writes:
> After having used IDL for years on UNIX systems, I am struggling with
> the user interface of the version for Windows. Can anyone tell me how
> to do any of the following:
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> 1. Eliminate the command input window, and enter commands directly in
> the output log window - just like an xterm.
I'm afraid you will have to get used to disappointment, here. :-(
> 2. Clear the output log window programmatically, rather than by doing a
> right-click -> Clear Log mouse operation.
Same with this, sorry.
> 3. Running the RDPIX routine in an xterm results in a stationary
> display of: x, y, value - nice and simple. This, umm, doesn't quite
> work same way in the windows version. In fact, it sometimes crashes IDL
> on my system as the horizontal scroll bar in the output log window gets
> smaller and smaller...
Uh, RDPIX was written in 1987! I think Microsoft was still
located in Albuquerque. And Windows IDL was not even a
twinkle in David Stern's eye. I suggest you learn how to
write your own nifty RDPIX as a widget program. It would work
better and you would learn something in the process. Take about
10 minutes, I think. Course, you could modify the RDPIX code.
That would take about 30 seconds, probably. After you figured
out all those abbreviated keyword names. :-)
> 4. For a displayed image, how can I change its colors without having to
> re-load the image after changing the color table? For example, clicking
> through the entries in XLOADCT immediately changes the colors in all
> windows on my UNIX machine. I've turned off decomposed color
> (device,decomposed=0), which doesn't seem to affect this behavior.
Set your graphics card to 256 colors.
Cheers,
David
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