| Re: iTools colorbar [message #60190 is a reply to message #60085] |
Mon, 05 May 2008 11:27   |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Kenneth P. Bowman writes:
> There has to be a way to do this. The question does not apply only to
> colorbars. What if I want to put an institutional logo in the
> annotation layer of my iTools graphic? How do I do that?
When I began my own iTool odyssey I decided to do something
much simpler. I think I wanted to change the colors in a
image in less than the required 12 keystrokes, or
something like that. Anyway, I invested about three weeks
of solid effort and I hadn't made any headway at all,
except to reach the conclusion that whatever it was
I wanted to do just simply couldn't be done, given the
information at my disposal.
Sure enough, after complaining bitterly to a friend of
mine about the journey, my friend let me know about a secret
decoder ring known only to the insiders at ITTVIS. That's the
day I gave up on iTools, and I haven't had cause to regret
that decision from that day to this.
I don't believe we (and I mean you, me, and the rest of the
world outside of ITTVIS) are *meant* to program these things.
We are meant to appreciate the complexity, power and beauty
of them.
Cheers,
David
P.S. I know irony is difficult to convey in a multi-cultural
newsgroup like this one, but I am hoping there is no
missing it here. :-)
--
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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