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Max Woes Re: Back to idl after a looong time... [message #23684 is a reply to message #23394]

Sat, 10 February 2001 15:22

davidf
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Pavel A. Romashkin (pavel.romashkin@noaa.gov) writes:

> Make sure it works on my darn Mac, too!

I was teaching an IDL course this week and I
had the ... (well, "pleasure" is not the right word)
of using an iMac as one of our machines.

I was absolutely depressed at how sucky (I'm sure
that is the right word) my device-independent
color programs worked. It seems it is impossible
on the Mac to flip between a color decomposition
on and a decomposition off state. It seems like you
have to decide if you are going to use color tables
or not. If you decide you are, I don't know how
you ever display a 24-bit image in the same IDL
session. :-(

I don't remember the Macs having these kinds of
problems several years ago. Maybe the new X
operating system will solve these problems.
But as it is, I don't see how anyone gets useful
work done with IDL on a Mac.

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say I'm re-writing all my example
programs this week to add the disclaimer "Almost
certainly won't work as expected on a Mac". :-(

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		Back to idl after a looong time... By: Guillaume Dargaud on Tue, 23 January 2001 13:57
		Re: Back to idl after a looong time... By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Fri, 26 January 2001 08:45
		Re: Back to idl after a looong time... By: Alex Schuster on Mon, 29 January 2001 07:00
		Re: Back to idl after a looong time... By: davidf on Fri, 26 January 2001 06:42
		Re: Back to idl after a looong time... By: Stuart Norton on Thu, 01 February 2001 16:37
		Re: Back to idl after a looong time... By: Alex Schuster on Mon, 05 February 2001 06:05
		Re: Back to idl after a looong time... By: Alex Schuster on Tue, 30 January 2001 04:41
		Re: Back to idl after a looong time... By: davidf on Mon, 29 January 2001 08:04
		Re: Back to idl after a looong time... By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 07 February 2001 08:56
		Re: Back to idl after a looong time... By: Martin Schultz on Fri, 09 February 2001 04:30
		Re: Back to idl after a looong time... By: John-David T. Smith on Wed, 07 February 2001 07:43
		Max Woes Re: Back to idl after a looong time... By: davidf on Sat, 10 February 2001 15:22
		Re: Max Woes Re: Back to idl after a looong time... By: davidf on Mon, 12 February 2001 11:45
		Re: Max Woes Re: Back to idl after a looong time... By: Joseph B. Gurman on Sat, 17 February 2001 07:18
		Re: Max Woes Re: Back to idl after a looong time... By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 12 February 2001 11:10
		Re: Back to idl after a looong time... By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Fri, 09 February 2001 09:19

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