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Re: IDLDE refresh in Windows XP (IDL 5.2.1) [message #33333 is a reply to message #33292]

Wed, 18 December 2002 15:08

Mark Hadfield
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"Doug Martin" <dmartin@chaos.ph.utexas.edu> wrote in message
news:d2bf73f3.0212161511.345137ba@posting.google.com...
> I am using IDL 5.2.1 in Windows XP. If I run a long program from the
> IDLDE command line, once I move the mouse the IDL screen freezes, and
> does not free until the program is finished running.

By the way, another way to avoid this is to pop up one of David Fanning's
progress bars:

http://www.dfanning.com/programs/progressbar__define.pro

But of course this only works if you can scatter calls to the progress bar's
Update methods through the code.

--
Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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		IDLDE refresh in Windows XP (IDL 5.2.1) By: dmartin on Mon, 16 December 2002 15:11
		Re: IDLDE refresh in Windows XP (IDL 5.2.1) By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 18 December 2002 15:08
		Re: IDLDE refresh in Windows XP (IDL 5.2.1) By: cees on Wed, 18 December 2002 05:54

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