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Re: IDLDE refresh in Windows XP (IDL 5.2.1) [message #33357 is a reply to message #33273]

Wed, 18 December 2002 03:20

David Burridge
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"Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz> wrote in message
news:ato3h6$at4$1@newsreader.mailgate.org...
<Snip>
> Let's stress this again, just so the Unix people won't get too smug: There
> is no technical reason why IDL for Windows could not include a
console-mode
> executable. Such an executable would be able to generate widget and
graphics
> windows, just like on Unix. (Just look at Python as an example.) The
reasons
> why such a beast does not exist are historical (IDL for Windows was first
> developed on 16-bit platforms) and/or related RSI's perceptions of Windows
> users' needs.

The way I understand it - and I'm *sure* I'm way behind you guys! - the Unix
IDLDE is simply a wrapper around the core IDL executable, whereas on the
Windows (and Mac?) the IDLDE *is* the Windows executable. That's why the IDL
runtime is a separate exe on windows, but a command-line switch on Unix.
Even my limited Windows API programming expertise tells me I certainly
wouldn't like to be the one to part the interface and core! I'm guessing
it'd be a close run thing between that and chromacoding on Unix as the bum
engineering task at RSI? :-)

Cheers,

Dave

David Burridge
Burridge Computing, 18 The Green South
Warborough, Oxon, OX10 7DN
England
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 858279, Email: davidb@burridgecomputing.co.uk

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		Re: IDLDE refresh in Windows XP (IDL 5.2.1) By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 17 December 2002 12:23
		Re: IDLDE refresh in Windows XP (IDL 5.2.1) By: David Burridge on Tue, 17 December 2002 02:45
		Re: IDLDE refresh in Windows XP (IDL 5.2.1) By: Mark Hadfield on Mon, 16 December 2002 15:31
		Re: IDLDE refresh in Windows XP (IDL 5.2.1) By: David Burridge on Wed, 18 December 2002 03:20

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