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Re: Self-compiling procedures [message #58785 is a reply to message #58733]

Wed, 20 February 2008 07:58

mmiller3
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>>>> > "David" == David Fanning <news@dfanning.com> writes:

> I guess I've got to get out more, but I find IDL's widget
> tools to be powerful and easy to use. I'm mystified about
> why people won't use them.

I like IDL's widgets - my comment about design choices was
tongue-in-cheek, but I meant it. It is possible to spend hours
fiddling with colors and fonts and detailed gui layout with some
other toolkits, but with IDL, once I realized it couldn't really
be done, my productivity went up. Being able to tell people "no,
I can't make that some color other than grey" is a huge time
saver! Some interfaces end up looking a bit clunky, and are
likely less efficient to use that they could be. I suspect that
is why so many commercial programs that are written in IDL use
proprietary interface libraries.

The other thing that I've used extensively for GUIs is tkinter
(and some plain tcl/tk). The big advantage there, that is
missing with IDL, is a very large user base with lots of
documentation and examples.

Not counting itools, I've still never found anything that is as
handy as IDL for both numerical work and interacting with data,
and a lot of that is due the availability of the widgets and
direct graphics.

Mike

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Michael A. Miller mmiller3@iupui.edu
Imaging Sciences, Department of Radiology, IU School of Medicine

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		Self-compiling procedures By: maye on Sat, 16 February 2008 10:47
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: mmiller3 on Wed, 20 February 2008 07:58
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 19 February 2008 13:00
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: David Fanning on Tue, 19 February 2008 12:27
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 19 February 2008 12:09
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: David Fanning on Tue, 19 February 2008 09:26
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: mmiller3 on Tue, 19 February 2008 09:00
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Maarten[1] on Tue, 19 February 2008 08:20
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: mmiller3 on Tue, 19 February 2008 08:02
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Maarten[1] on Tue, 19 February 2008 01:56

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