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Re: How to make IDL be quiet [message #37458 is a reply to message #37456]

Tue, 16 December 2003 18:30

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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mwallace.removethismunge@swri.edu.invalid writes:

> I'm quite new to IDL, so hopefully this will be a simple question for
> the rest of you.
>
> How can I prevent IDL from printing out all the nominal messages such as
> "% Compiled Module: FOO" or "% Loaded DLM: BAR"? I'd rather that IDL
> just be quiet and only report something to the terminal if there were a
> serious error or if I use a print statement from within my program.
>
> I also have a couple places in my code where an error could be expected.
> In those particular cases, I still want the error handling on and
> !ERROR_STATE to be filled with the correct values, but I don't want to
> show this error since I will be handling it and the program will
> continue execution. So, in short, how do I get control over what's
> written to the terminal?

I'm sure you *think* this is what you want to do.
But I'm also sure that if you succeed in doing it,
it won't be long before you see what a really bad
idea this is. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say after spending 3 hours in an iTool
chasing down strange behavior that turned out to be
a silent Catch that I don't have too much sympathy for
silence. :-(
--
David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http:/www.dfanning.com/
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		Re: How to make IDL be quiet By: dcw_yip on Thu, 18 December 2003 11:37
		Re: How to make IDL be quiet By: Michael Wallace on Wed, 17 December 2003 12:08
		Re: How to make IDL be quiet By: dcw_yip on Wed, 17 December 2003 11:21
		Re: How to make IDL be quiet By: David Fanning on Wed, 17 December 2003 05:19
		Re: How to make IDL be quiet By: Pepijn Kenter on Wed, 17 December 2003 04:21
		Re: How to make IDL be quiet By: marc schellens[1] on Wed, 17 December 2003 04:18
		Re: How to make IDL be quiet By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 16 December 2003 19:44
		Re: How to make IDL be quiet By: David Fanning on Tue, 16 December 2003 18:30

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