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Re: Is your IDL5.4 windows interface flaky too? [message #26402 is a reply to message #26401]

Thu, 30 August 2001 11:38

Steve Hartmann
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Registered: March 2000

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Mirko Vukovic (mvukovic@taz.telusa.com) writes:

> It it me, or the IDLDE (development environment, I guess) of IDL 5.4
> on windows NT is flaky.
>
> I only recently installed 5.4, and every once in a while I cannot set
> or clear a breakpoint.
>

I've had problems with this in the last three versions of IDL under NT
and now with Win2K. I can usually *set* the breakpoints ok, but many
times they get removed while the colored dot does not. Of course, then
the program just zooms on past this line. This often happens when I
have added or deleted some lines of code. Now I usually go to the
"Edit Breakpoints" window (launched by the icon with the 4 red dots)
and clear all points and reset them where I want them. Kind of a pain
but better than crossing my fingers for a breakpoint stop.

>
> The variable watcher is out of step most of
> the time, and ctrl-W that is supposed to move the cursor to the
> command window sometimes fails.
>

I agree with David and never use this. I find it easier to type:
help, variable (or print, variable)
then to search for the variable in the list.

I've never seen ctrl-W fail. However, when a program stops at a
breakpoint, most of the time the focus is then in the command window.
Sometimes it's in the edit window. Sometimes I don't know where it is.
The second case is the worse for me because I'm usually half done
typing a command before I realize I've been editing my code.

-Steve

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		Re: Is your IDL5.4 windows interface flaky too? By: David Fanning on Thu, 30 August 2001 14:40
		Re: Is your IDL5.4 windows interface flaky too? By: mvukovic on Thu, 30 August 2001 14:14
		Re: Is your IDL5.4 windows interface flaky too? By: Steve Hartmann on Thu, 30 August 2001 11:38
		Re: Is your IDL5.4 windows interface flaky too? By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 30 August 2001 10:47
		Re: Is your IDL5.4 windows interface flaky too? By: David Fanning on Thu, 30 August 2001 10:01

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