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Re: Spherical gridding [message #35484 is a reply to message #21747]

Thu, 19 June 2003 10:11

Ben Tupper
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Registered: August 1999

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Paul van Delst wrote:
> Ben Tupper wrote:
>
>> Liam Gumley wrote:
>>
>>> It's not included in my SGI version of IDL 5.5.
>>>
>>
>> That's odd. The documentation for IDL 5.6 says it was introduced in
>> version 5.5. I don't see any mention of its absence in the What's New
>> in IDL 5.5 (which I happen to have handy.) Have your explored this with
>> RSI?
>
>
> I though my linux install didn't have it:
>
> IDL> print, !version
> { x86 linux unix linux 5.5a Feb 7 2002 32 32}
>
> until I noticed that the help that comes with my 5.5a on my system is the 5.4 docs!
>
> But:
>
> IDL> result=griddata(x,y)
> % Loaded DLM: QHULL.
> % GRIDDATA: Expression must be an array in this context: X.
> % Execution halted at: $MAIN$
>
> indicates that there's *something* there. Too bad I can't look at the help to have a
> lookee. Makes me wonder what else I've missed.....well, not too much. My "What's new in
> IDL 5.6" book is still in the shrink-wrap!
>
> I seem to recall a discussion about non-updated online documentation a while back....is
> this what folks were referring to? Or could this just be due to a screwed up installation
> om my part?
>
> paulv
>

This is the problem caused by the funny update to online documention in
the 5.4 to 5.5 upgrade. The online docs for IDL 5.6 are superior in
terms of content. I struggle with searching on a Mac OSX online help
since the PDF format doesn't provide the nice IDL> ?widget_list
functionality. CoolHelp can work on IDL 5.6 - but it has dated content.
See http://www.dfanning.com/misc_tips/nohelp.html for the story.

I have not made the switch to IDLWAVE (sorry, JD!) - I am a part-timer
right now and can't seem to bridge the M-X C-Q, etc. keystrokes and get
work done. I drool over IDLWAVE's slick online help system - but alas...

Cheers (and tears),
Ben

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		spherical gridding By: Sylvain Carette on Sun, 17 September 2000 00:00
		Re: Spherical gridding By: JD Smith on Thu, 19 June 2003 15:31
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Liam E. Gumley on Thu, 19 June 2003 12:17
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Liam E. Gumley on Thu, 19 June 2003 12:14
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Haje Korth on Thu, 19 June 2003 11:45
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Haje Korth on Thu, 19 June 2003 11:42
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Ben Tupper on Thu, 19 June 2003 10:11
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 19 June 2003 09:32
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Ben Tupper on Thu, 19 June 2003 09:14
		Re: Spherical gridding By: hunter on Thu, 19 June 2003 08:35
		Re: Spherical gridding By: hunter on Fri, 20 June 2003 11:06
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Liam E. Gumley on Thu, 19 June 2003 07:41
		Re: Spherical gridding By: Haje Korth on Thu, 19 June 2003 04:54
		Re: Spherical gridding By: wmconnolley on Wed, 18 June 2003 12:09

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