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Re: Almost dead widgets [message #20070 is a reply to message #20062]

Wed, 10 May 2000 00:00

Ben Tupper
Messages: 186
Registered: August 1999

Senior Member

David Fanning wrote:

> Do you have access to the IDL command line when everything
> goes to hell in a handbasket? If so, have you tried typing
> Widget_Control, /Reset?

No, I don't have access to the command line until AFTER I manually interrupt
immediately after the crash. Because I must manually
interrupt, does that mean that I'm in an unfinshed event loop?

> But that "checkerboard" thing makes
> me think the window manager is corrupted somehow. I'd try
> a .Reset_Session, just for grins, before I reached for that
> IDL Quit button, but that may be your own recourse.
>

Just to be clear, I can minimize these windows after the crash... hence the
checkerboard of 'dead' icons.
Unfortunately, I can't use .reset_session because I'm in IDL v5.2
IDL> help, !Version,/Str
** Structure !VERSION, 5 tags, length=40:
ARCH STRING 'sparc'
OS STRING 'sunos'
OS_FAMILY STRING 'unix'
RELEASE STRING '5.2'
BUILD_DATE STRING 'Oct 30 1998'

Ben

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		Re: Almost dead widgets By: promashkin on Mon, 15 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Almost dead widgets By: Ben Tupper on Mon, 15 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Almost dead widgets By: Dominic Zarro on Thu, 11 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Almost dead widgets By: promashkin on Wed, 10 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Almost dead widgets By: Ben Tupper on Wed, 10 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Almost dead widgets By: davidf on Wed, 10 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Almost dead widgets By: Ben Tupper on Wed, 10 May 2000 00:00
		Re: Almost dead widgets By: davidf on Wed, 10 May 2000 00:00

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