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Re: IDL 7.0 Projects [message #57221 is a reply to message #57219] Wed, 05 December 2007 18:48 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001
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Mike Galloy writes:

> Here's a screenshot of how I set up my workbench:
>
> http://michaelgalloy.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/workbenc h-screenshot.png

Wow, yes, I don't have that kind of real estate on my machine.
What kind of screen resolution is this?

> 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.)

> 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.

> 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. :-)

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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