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Re: Exceed and IDL [message #16209 is a reply to message #16191]

Tue, 06 July 1999 00:00

bkrrrrr
Messages: 3
Registered: July 1999

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Liam Gumley wrote:
>
> Barry Latter wrote:
>> I've had problems with window buffering using Exceed on a PC for
>> displaying IDL plots. Basically, if a window is opened in front of an
>> IDL graphics window, the IDL window is blanked out when it's brought
>> back to the front. Is this an IDL or Exceed problem? Has anyone found a
>> way around it?
>
> Issuing the following command at the start of your IDL session should do
> the trick:
>
> DEVICE, DECOMPOSED=0, RETAIN=2
>
FWIW, this has never worked for me, in that
curves drawn in the work area are not retained
with retain=2 (or anything else).
Here is the device info, if it helps:

IDL> help, /device
Available Graphics Devices: CGM HP LJ NULL PCL PRINTER PS REGIS TEK X Z
Current graphics device: X
Server: X11.0, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Release 3600
Display Depth, Size: 8 bits, (1152,900)
Visual Class: PseudoColor (3)
Bits Per RGB: 8
Physical Color Map Entries (Used / Total): 256 / 256
Colormap: Private, 256 colors. Translation table: Enabled
Graphics pixels: Combined, Dither Method: Ordered
Write Mask: 255 (decimal) ff (hex)
Graphics Function: 3 (copy)
Current Font: <default>, Current TrueType Font: <default>
Default Backing Store: Pixmap.

thx,
bkr

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		Re: Exceed and IDL By: meron on Thu, 08 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 08 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 08 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: davidf on Wed, 07 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: Richard G. French on Wed, 07 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: Liam Gumley on Wed, 07 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: davidf on Wed, 07 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: bkrrrrr on Wed, 07 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: Liam Gumley on Wed, 07 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: bkrrrrr on Tue, 06 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: Liam Gumley on Tue, 06 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: Liam Gumley on Tue, 06 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: Barry Latter on Tue, 06 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Exceed and IDL By: davidf on Mon, 05 July 1999 00:00

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