comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive
Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado

Home » Public Forums » archive » Re: Sound with IDL... HELP!
Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend 
Return to the default flat view Create a new topic Submit Reply
Re: Sound with IDL... HELP! [message #25549 is a reply to message #25548] Wed, 27 June 2001 07:43 Go to previous message
david[2] is currently offline  david[2]
Messages: 100
Registered: June 2001
Senior Member
Alex Schuster writes:

> Okay, okay. I'm calm. Everything's just fine. I'm sure, someone will
> tell me that I don't have a BIG, BIG problem.
>
> Because, hey, it's 2001, and of course it should be no problem to play
> .wav files from IDL, right? Right.
>
> When I do a
> spawn, 'wav.exe mywav.wav' ,
> a big DOS window opens. If I use
> spawn, 'start /min wav.exe mywav.wav' ,
> it closes immedeately, but it is still opened first for a short time.
> I also see a small dialog telling me that IDL is spawning a command.
>
>
> And this is just unacceptable! I want to show images to our patients
> which are being tested, and I just cannot confuse them with appearing
> and disappearing dialogs. No way.
>
> Any ideas? If not, I really don't know what to do now. And I have to
> explain the doctors why the program I wrote this week is of no use.

Uh, how about the NOSHELL keyword to the SPAWN command.
Works in IDL 5.4. :-)

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
[Message index]
 
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Previous Topic: IDL question...
Next Topic: Plot into an array

-=] Back to Top [=-
[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [ RSS ] [ PDF ]

Current Time: Sat Oct 11 05:02:12 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.79962 seconds