| Re: Catalyst Library Going Open Source [message #62962 is a reply to message #62961] |
Tue, 14 October 2008 09:01   |
pgrigis
Messages: 436
Registered: September 2007
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David,
it works like a charm!
I have only been playing with it for 5 minutes, but I already love it!
Ciao,
Paolo
David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Later this week Mike Galloy and I will have my Catalyst
> Library set up as an Open Source software project. I'm
> still working on documentation issues, but I have the code
> pretty much ready to go. This morning's discussion of
> iTools has prompted me to give you an early look at what
> is possible.
>
> I had occasion last week to be working with iImage. I find
> this program, like almost all the iTools, incomprehensible.
> For God's sake, I just want to look at my image! But the
> image jumps around in size so I have to scroll around all
> the time, I can't get the damn thing to fill up the window,
> etc. I loose patience quickly.
>
> So, I thought I would just build an iImage-like tool in
> Catalyst to show new users how it can be done. It took
> me about five hours, start to finish.
>
> If you are interested in this, you can download the
> preliminary Catalyst distribution here:
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/misc/catalyst.zip
>
> The file is about 1.5 MByte in size, and contains two
> directories: catalyst and coyote. (You will need this
> updated Coyote directory.) Add these two directories
> to your path (please be sure your other Coyote directory
> doesn't interfere. In fact, get rid of it). Be careful
> to add the directories to your IDL path in such a way
> that the sub-directories are searched, too.
>
> Once installed, to see this new iImage-for-the-rest-of-us
> miracle of easy programming, type this:
>
> IDL> ImgWin, image
>
> Where "image" is any 2D array or true-color image. (You will
> have more functionality in the tool if the image is a 2D array.)
>
> I'd be curious to know if it works. :-)
>
> If this Open Source project takes off like I hope it will,
> I think it might be possible to have interactive tools that
> work the way *we* do, and not the way some marketing
> type *thinks* we do.
>
> 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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