| Re: Philosophical Scaling Question [message #51739 is a reply to message #51593] |
Mon, 04 December 2006 10:39   |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Brian Larsen writes:
> Ah ha, this exactly what I wanted colorbar to do!! The reason I had
> never been able to get it done is that was a lot of work (and work I
> didn't know how to do), it seems like a flag to colorbar or tvlct or
> something that was /logscl would do the trick. Really the issue was my
> unfamiliarity with logscl, tvlct, and tvimage and how to put it all
> together.
Alas, the problem is for every simple case, there are an infinite
number of more complex cases. And as soon as someone like me
distributes software, I hear from EVERYONE who wants to
do something complex. :-(
I can't keep up. So I try to provide tools that do simple
things (which I can support), and which can be combined in
complex ways (which I can't support, generally).
Note the difference between this philosophy and the
thinking behind iTools, for example. Using my tools
an "ah ha" moment can be experienced in less than 10
lines of code (as you just discovered). Using iTools,
your "ah ha" moment can be a long way off (as I discover
just about every time I try to use one of those darn things).
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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