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Re: IDL 5.0.3 on Macintosh [message #27399 is a reply to message #27398]

Mon, 22 October 2001 07:26

azM
Messages: 8
Registered: October 2001

Junior Member

If they had only made an option similar to the ones in Microsoft Word: Save
as Word 95, Save as Word 97 etc..
I know I am a lazy programmer :-)

"David Fanning" <david@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.163dcbdc647d898971b@news.frii.com...
> azM (user@azm.nl) writes:
>
>> i'm still working on my intership assignment. My problem right now is
that i
>> have to write a really small program to get some data from a Macintosh
>> system with IDL 5.0.3 installed and send the data to a Windows 2000
system
>> with IDL 5.5.
>> I wrote a simple UI on IDL 5.5 and ported it to the Mac. of course I did
not
>> expect it to work right away, but I also didn't expect it to be so hard.
Can
>> anyone help me with this? Or does anyone still have some small programs
>> written in IDL 5.0.3 that make use of widgets and events triggerd by
some
>> buttons or stuff on these widgets?
>
> I have doubts about the GUI Builder in the best
> of times. But there is no way it is going to
> write code that will run in IDL 5.0.3. New
> keywords, etc. to make the GUI Builder work
> were introduced after that.
>
> I'm afraid you are going to have to write
> this widget program by hand. The good news,
> of course, is that you will learn exactly
> how and why widget programs work. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
> --
> David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting
> Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
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		Re: IDL 5.0.3 on Macintosh By: B.C. Hamans on Mon, 22 October 2001 10:56
		Re: IDL 5.0.3 on Macintosh By: Liam E. Gumley on Mon, 22 October 2001 09:59
		Re: IDL 5.0.3 on Macintosh By: azM on Mon, 22 October 2001 07:43
		Re: IDL 5.0.3 on Macintosh By: azM on Mon, 22 October 2001 07:26
		Re: IDL 5.0.3 on Macintosh By: David Fanning on Mon, 22 October 2001 06:23

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