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Re: Again.....plot interrupt? [message #3540 is a reply to message #3468] Thu, 02 February 1995 08:16 Go to previous message
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In <3gmba2$kjc@zephyr.grace.cri.nz>, hadfield@storm.greta.cri.nz (Mark Hadfield) writes:
> In article <fskmjm.100@puknet.puk.ac.za>, fskmjm@puknet.puk.ac.za says...
>>
>> How can I interrupt the PLOT procedure without crashing the program,
>> so that I don't sometimes have to wait several minutes for a plot to
>> finish? I'm using IDL under Windows, and Ctrl-C doesn't make any
>> impression while PLOT is running.
>
> Sorry, I don't think you can interrupt PLOT. Under Windows' cooperative
> multi-tasking, programs have to be explicitly written to yield control
> of the CPU, and the IDL built-in routines don't seem to do this.
>
> It is possible (with minimal effort) to write IDL procedures so that they
> can be interrupted--contact me if you want to know how. But this only lets
> you interrupt IDL between commands, not during them.
>

Could you describe what you mean by writing procedures so that they can be interrupted?
-Darren Orbach

> ============================================================ ==
> Mark Hadfield hadfield@storm.greta.cri.nz
> NIWA (Taihoro Nukurangi) NIWA.GRETA:HADFIELD
> Wellington, New Zealand
>
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