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Re: IDL6.0 and Mac OS 10.3 [message #37384 is a reply to message #37380]

Mon, 15 December 2003 11:24

profxtjb
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Registered: October 2003

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"Richard G. French" <rfrench@wellesley.edu> wrote in message news:<BC031785.129B%rfrench@wellesley.edu>...

> Now for my question - I've heard some horror stories about problems
> installing Panther on existing systems. Has anyone out there upgraded from
> 10.2 to 10.3 on a PowerBook G4? Any problems with the upgrade or with IDL?

I purchased the Panther CD and upgraded to Panther on my 17-inch G4
without serious mishap. I have had a LOT of trouble with the Apple
Software Update over the network. It seems to correlate with my brief
epsiodes of nastiness with the new machine, so I do not use it anymore
if I can help it.

With IDL use, I had a few headaches -- related to getting my csh.cshrc
replaced (with default) during the Panther upgrade. I had to go back
in and slip in the IDL-specific lines.

At the same time, I entered a line to enable keycode 66 to operate as
'Alt_L'. This makes the Alt key work normally. Alt-x is now the
usual editing 'cut' etc. IDL was a pain in the neck without that Alt
key!

Making use of the virtual machine is important to me, so what I have
been working on the last few days has to do with the VM having
arguments with X11 and OpenGL. E.g., One of my graphics objects
practice programs runs good in idlde but did not run completely in the
vm; it opened the draw widget but no image. As an experiment, I
started up the x-window in Pseudo Color, with color depth 8, and the
same object graphics project gets the image but the trackball doesn't
work (no OpenGL, I guess). I did try out a simple widget program with
2D direct graphics, and it worked fine in VM. I think I will get it
sorted out eventually.

I suppose there will be more headaches, but those are the ones I have
encountered. Some small and some bigger.

-Thomas

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		Re: IDL6.0 and Mac OS 10.3 By: btt on Tue, 16 December 2003 06:57
		Re: IDL6.0 and Mac OS 10.3 By: henrygroe on Mon, 15 December 2003 15:25
		Re: IDL6.0 and Mac OS 10.3 By: profxtjb on Mon, 15 December 2003 11:24
		Re: IDL6.0 and Mac OS 10.3 By: MKatz843 on Mon, 15 December 2003 11:14
		Re: IDL6.0 and Mac OS 10.3 By: K. Bowman on Mon, 15 December 2003 08:26
		Re: IDL6.0 and Mac OS 10.3 By: JD Smith on Tue, 16 December 2003 12:42
		Re: IDL6.0 and Mac OS 10.3 By: Ch. Konig on Fri, 18 March 2005 13:48
		Re: IDL6.0 and Mac OS 10.3 By: henrygroe on Tue, 16 December 2003 12:09

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