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Re: IDL 7.0 Projects [message #57340 is a reply to message #57188]

Fri, 07 December 2007 06:28

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Paul van Delst writes:

> Oh, I am quite sure my jaw will drop in awe.... but I posit the emotional adjective will
> be different than you think. :o) I have used eclipse in the past and the year or so since
> then hasn't diminished my underwhelm-ment.
>
> I cherish my learning curves and can't waste 'em. :o)

Well, I've finally given up on the laptop. There it is going
to have to be IDL 6.4 or IDL 7.0 and EMACS. The Workshop is
just not going to run on 512 MByte of RAM, and that is that.
I've been wanting a new laptop anyway.

So, I decided to have a look at this on my new beefed up
office computer, where I have some room, RAM, and resolution.
My impressions of IDL 7.0 are decidedly more favorable than
they were yesterday. So, this is on Windows XP, 4 MByte RAM.

I was *extremely* concerned about some of the things I read
yesterday about On-Line Help. I'm VERY happy to report that
none of them are true for me. I usually make a short-cut to
IDL on-line help so I can run it in as a separate application
on my 2nd monitor. Absolutely no problem doing that, and I
can still access Help, or Dynamic Help, from the Workspace.
It appears I can have as many Help windows open as I care to.
All of this works *exactly* as it did in IDL 6.4.

Someone else mentioned problems with finding WIDGET_CONTROL.
I am happy to say when I typed this into the index of either
the Help or the Dynamic Help I was taken immediately to what
I expected. I cannot account for the reports yesterday.

I like the Fast View functionality, but I have one quibble.
Could the view please remember the last page size, so that
when I call it up again, it is the same size it was the last
time I accessed it? Especially with On-Line Help, it always
comes up in a narrow, skinny window, that I have to resize to
see anything. The Workshop seems to remember the rest of my
mistakes, so it is probably trivial to make it remember something
I really want. :-)

Of course, I haven't got my projects set up here yet. I'll
probably just chuck everything into the Default project like
everyone else and be done with it. (I'm joking.)

Anyway, if you have enough of a machine to handle this, you
come away with a better impression.

Cheers,

David
--
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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		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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