Re: a simple hack!Re: How do I save parameters for next run? [message #38898 is a reply to message #38897] |
Tue, 06 April 2004 17:47   |
Yunxiang Zhang
Messages: 19 Registered: October 2003
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I once tried this from within the .sav file. And I got the error like
'EXECUTE function not available'. If I remember correctly, that is one of
the drawbacks of IDL virtual machine. So is it possible to avoid using
EXECUTE function in your cmsvlib? Thanks!
Yunxiang
On 6 Apr 2004, Craig Markwardt wrote:
> Yunxiang Zhang <yxzhang@stanford.edu> writes:
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>> Folks,
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>> Thanks for all your input here. I was trying to look into Craig's
>> library and see if I can come up with a solution. But it turned to be
>> a little bit complicated for me. Today, I finally did it with a simple
>> hack by appending the default data to the end of the .sav file. The code
>> will read itself, the .sav file, to get the default value and after user
>> input it will update the data appended. The only drawback is you can't run
>> the program before you generate the .sav file and append the default data
>> to the end of the .sav file. Here's how the code looks like,
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> Rather than hacking some arbitrary data onto the end of the save file,
> why not append the entries directly to the save file as legitimate
> save-file variables?
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> You should be able to do this with CMSAVE, ..., /APPEND
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> Good luck,
> Craig
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