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Re: IDL 7.0 Projects [message #57212 is a reply to message #57210]

Thu, 06 December 2007 05:19

Spon
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Registered: September 2007

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On Dec 6, 2:32 am, "mgal...@gmail.com" <mgal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...fairly well for me (except the help, I always want to quickly look
> something up, but it's never very quick).
>
> Mike
> --www.michaelgalloy.com
> Tech-X Corporation
> Software Developer II

This is the one thing that's causing me problems with 7.0. As a newbie
I need the help menu a _lot_, and as far as I can tell the reason it's
so much slower to start on v7 than v6.4 is because it defaults to
opening the 'search' tab, where v6 help started in the 'Index' tab. I
_like_ that index tab; usually I know the title of the helpfile I'm
looking for (probably because I've spent so much of the past half year
staring at IDL help files :-) ) so I don't need to go to 'search'
every time. And when I do (in the IDL6.4 help window), yes, it takes
its time, but I don't mind because I'll only click that tab when I
really need it.

Is there any way to make v7.0 help start in this way? I can see the
index tab lurking right there at the bottom, so it hasn't just
disappeared.
I guess it's no big issue really as I usually fire up IDL help before
I start IDL (if I do it this way 'round the helpfile Doesn't Close
when I exit IDL - or crash it again!) This means I can continue to use
the helpfile for version 6 until I find out how to fix this.

Apart from that, I'm getting used to the new look IDL (after the
initial "Why's it so darn bubbly an WinXP-esque?" shock...) and even
this new workspace malarky isn't all that bad (I simply chucked my
entire IDL programmes directory into \workspace\default and kept my
own tree structure intact. Crude, but it works for me!)

I really like the 'fast tab' option, too. Now all I have in the window
(á la Doug's idea) are the editor, command line and console. Even
variable watch is consigned to the fast tab - though it never stays
there for any length of time, as a rule.

Thanks to everyone for all the discussion since the new release, and
particularly to the guys from ITTVIS who've taken the time to keep an
eye on the newgroup and reply to the various queries!

Chris

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		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 06 December 2007 08:45
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: Spon on Thu, 06 December 2007 08:19
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: ronn on Thu, 06 December 2007 07:34
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: Vince Hradil on Thu, 06 December 2007 07:21
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: David Fanning on Thu, 06 December 2007 06:46
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: David Fanning on Thu, 06 December 2007 06:05
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: Spon on Thu, 06 December 2007 05:24
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: Spon on Thu, 06 December 2007 05:19
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 05 December 2007 19:20
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: Vince Hradil on Wed, 05 December 2007 19:08
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: David Fanning on Wed, 05 December 2007 18:48
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 05 December 2007 18:32
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: David Fanning on Wed, 05 December 2007 17:15
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: Vince Hradil on Wed, 05 December 2007 16:53
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: Doug Edmundson on Wed, 05 December 2007 16:25
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: b_gom on Wed, 05 December 2007 16:16
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: David Fanning on Wed, 05 December 2007 16:04
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: Doug Edmundson on Wed, 05 December 2007 16:02
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: JD Smith on Wed, 05 December 2007 15:50
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: David Fanning on Wed, 05 December 2007 15:54
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: Vince Hradil on Wed, 05 December 2007 15:38
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 05 December 2007 15:34
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: David Fanning on Wed, 05 December 2007 15:16
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: Vince Hradil on Wed, 05 December 2007 15:03
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: David Fanning on Wed, 05 December 2007 14:54
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: Vince Hradil on Wed, 05 December 2007 14:48
		Re: IDL 7.0 Projects By: David Fanning on Fri, 07 December 2007 06:28

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