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Re: Mac top level widget [message #16415 is a reply to message #16340]

Wed, 21 July 1999 00:00

Patrick V. Ford
Messages: 14
Registered: February 1997

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In article <379607CC.D860B5E6@cmdl.noaa.gov>, Pavel Romashkin
<promashkin@cmdl.noaa.gov> wrote:

> David Fanning wrote:
>
>> Pavel Romashkin (promashkin@cmdl.noaa.gov) writes:
>>
>>> I must say that, on the good side, IDL native object
>>> graphics on the screen of my Mac work just as fast as direct graphics -
>>> totally unbelievable (I had not tried to print yet :-).
>>
>> Uh, huh. Get back in touch with us soon. :-)
>
> No way, not on this! I am not even going to allow a user to print from this
> application - let them be happy it at least calculates reasonable values :-)
>
>> I don't know one way or the other about this, but it
>> sounds like a lot of other, similar bugs on this and other
>> platforms. I would definitely run it by the folks at RSI.
>
> Will do that. I heard, nobody at RSI stays on the Mac development position
> for too long :-(
>
>>> P.S. I heard, Mac is the buggiest platform to run IDL :-(
>>
>> I heard it is the hardest operating system to write code for.
>> Probably explains the bugs. :-)
>
> I think it is the wierdest of all platforms. At least my Mac clone does not
> let me get bored: for instance, I can be typing and then discover that my
> application silently quit, without a beep or any sort of error message.
> Fun, huh? I had this happened most often with MS Word - I guess MS is
> trying to sabotage the competitor platform ... Then I get to locate where
> the hell did I make the last change, before it crashed. IDL quit on me just
> once so far, it did not like my Macintizing of the Unix code :-(
> Cheers,
> Pavel

Which MacOS are you using? Pauses are usually due to an extension or HD
driver. While I do simple things in IDL on a MAC and therefore do not
stress it, I have found, in general, that of all the systems I have to
use, the SUN is thne most stable. Considering the limitation place on
the software restrictions place by IS, Windows 95/98/NT is not nearly
as stable compared to the Mac as claimed. (I had 3 crashes today.)
BTW, MacOS X is UNIX, therefore if one wants to replace the Mac GUI
with x-windows on can.

Patrick Ford, MD
pford@bcm.tmc.edu

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		Mac top level widget By: Pavel Romashkin on Tue, 20 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Mac top level widget By: Helge.Rebhan on Fri, 23 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Mac top level widget By: Pavel Romashkin on Thu, 22 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Mac top level widget By: Patrick V. Ford on Wed, 21 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Mac top level widget By: Pavel Romashkin on Wed, 21 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Mac top level widget By: Pavel Romashkin on Mon, 26 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Mac top level widget By: Patrick V. Ford on Fri, 23 July 1999 00:00
		Re: Mac top level widget By: Pavel Romashkin on Fri, 23 July 1999 00:00

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