| Re: IDL V4 and Windows 95 [message #6074 is a reply to message #6068] |
Mon, 01 April 1996 00:00  |
Mark Hadfield
Messages: 783
Registered: May 1995
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Joseph M Zawodny wrote:
> I just upgraded from Windows 3.1 to Win 95 and I am having great
> difficulty getting IDL to find some files/proceedures. It is pretty
> apparent that IDL cannot handle long file names (at least on my system).
> Has anyone else run into this and what can be done about it (short of
> renaming all of programs to fit the 8.3 format). I notice that the DOS
> names (8.3 names) now have the foobar~1.pro naming typical of long file
> names under win 95.
You're right: IDL for Windows does not handle long file names. This is a
"feature" mentioned in the documentation, not a peculiarity of your system.
So all .pro file names still need to be truncated to 8.3 characters. (I
adapted Bill Thompson's CONCAT4DOS routine for Windows NT to do this--I can
send or post a copy if you want.)
On Windows NT I have found that files with names longer than 8.3 CAN be
opened provided a space is appended to the file name. Don't know why but it
seems to work. Unusual characters in the file names, including spaces, are
still verboten.
> A second question has to do with 16bit color. I seem to have no
> control whatsoever over the colors used in plotting. This problem
> remains when I switch back to 8 bit (265) colors. Again, am I missing
> something here.
Can't really help here. I tried 16-bit colour when I first got a 16-bit
capable video card and encountered strange behaviour. Can't remember
exactly what, because I reverted to 8-bit and everything works as it did
with Win 3.11.
Cheers
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Mark Hadfield NIWA (Taihoro Nukurangi)
PO Box 14-901
m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz Wellington, New Zealand
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