| Re: Hello again, and iTools [message #52988 is a reply to message #52891] |
Fri, 09 March 2007 02:28  |
struan.gray
Messages: 2
Registered: March 2007
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Thanks for all the opinions and advice, even the cricket. I have a
large collection of golden ducks in my personal sporting history, so I
appreciate a game like baseball where you get three attempts at
getting things wrong before they kick you off the pitch.
Live Tools and Insight were the first thing I thought of when I saw
the iTools described in the manual. However, they were so obviously
slow and buggy from the moment you called them up tha I was never
remotely tempted to use them and I could never understand why they
were even included with the IDL distribution. iTools seems different
enough to be tempting, although I appreciate the warnings.
For now I shall probably write my own widgets and pass data to iPlot
and iImage tools for data inspection. There is a lot of built in
functionality that will be very tedious to duplicate, so that's a time
saver for me, especially at the prototyping stage. I am also finding
iTools a useful way to display or preserve internal data from inside
image processing routines when debugging or fine-tuning the algorithm:
IIMAGE, TEMPIMAGE works like PRINT, TEMPVARIABLE as way to keep tabs
on what is going on inside functions and procedures even after they
have returned.
Once I have immersed myself a bit more in the documentation it makes
sense to see if I can get a file reader running, and to turn some of
my eclectic collection of image processing routines into iTool
operations. It looks like a good way to re-use code efficiently.
Michael, your site will be a great help.
David, I look forward to buying your book. Please get it written in
the next two weeks or so :-)
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