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Re: IDL 7.0 Projects [message #57218 is a reply to message #57212]

Wed, 05 December 2007 19:20

Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006

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On Dec 5, 7:48 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Mike Galloy writes:
>> Here's a screenshot of how I set up my workbench:
>
>> http://michaelgalloy.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/workbenc h-screens...
>
> Wow, yes, I don't have that kind of real estate on my machine.
> What kind of screen resolution is this?

15" laptop: 1440 by 900.

>> I don't see where the extra stuff is.
>
> I have about 8 inches of useable space (vertically)
> on my display. A useless status bar at the bottom takes
> up 1/2 inch, an icon bar at the top (which you don't have)
> takes up 1/2 inch, and each tab (there are three) takes
> up 3/8 inch. So, more than 2 of 8 inches is wasted space
> on my display. (Might be the KDE window manager, I guess,
> although these look like JAVA widgets to me.)

Wow. I removed the icon bar since it didn't seem to offer much (I
always stay in debug mode and I use keyboard shortcuts for all the
toolbar buttons). I would consider removing the status bar if I could
figure out how.

>> I guess that $100 for extra memory was well worth it because it runs
>> fairly well for me (except the help, I always want to quickly look
>> something up, but it's never very quick).
>
> I looked into memory, but my machine (admittedly an old one,
> relatively speaking, but not as old as the puppy) is memory
> limited at 512 MBytes.

Memory is well worth the money unless you're planning on ditching that
machine.

>> I guess this is all predicated on the fact that I only use the
>> Workbench for just over 50% or so of my work with IDL. I'm glad I
>> don't have to use Windows any more...
>
> Well, I'm still using IDL 6.4 if I have any real work to do. :-)

I understand.

Mike
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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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