| Re: IDL Virtual Machine--Forget It [message #63131 is a reply to message #63072] |
Wed, 29 October 2008 07:34   |
liamgumley
Messages: 74
Registered: June 2005
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On Oct 28, 4:01 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Maybe you, like me, saw the IDL Virtual Machine as a way
> to get IDL more noticed by writing IDL applications that
> you could give away to colleagues, who could download the
> freely available IDL Virtual Machine to run them. Well,
> think again.
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David,
I've distributed an application which relied on IDL VM, and I was
surprised to hear about your experience with the latest version. So I
thought I'd try installing the IDL 7.0 VM on a vanilla Windows XP
system where IDL had never been installed. The Windows XP installation
is inside a VMFusion 2.0 Virtual Machine on my MacBook Pro (Leopard).
Here's what I had to do.
(1) Visited http://ittvis.com and clicked on the Downloads | Product
Downloads | IDL 7.0
(2) Registered as a new user (this is pretty common nowdays)
(3) Got my confirmation email, and clicked the link in the email to go
to the "Download a Product" page
(4) Downloaded "IDL & IDL VM 7.0 - Microsoft Windows 32-bit (XP,
Vista)"; it took a couple of minutes (270 MB)
(5) Ran the installer, and went with all defaults
(6) Went back to the Mac side, recompiled my application with IDL 7.0,
and created a SAVE file
(7) Went back to the Windows side, double clicked on the new SAVE
file, and IDL 7.0 VM popped right up
(8) Used the application as expected
So as long as ITTVIS allows the IDL installer to be distributed on a
CD/DVD, it appears to be fairly straightforward to distribute a
compiled application. The last time I went through this process about
a year ago, I recall that IDL and the IDL VM were bundled together in
the installation package.
What were the circumstances of your attempt to install IDL VM?
Cheers,
Liam.
Practical IDL Programming
http://www.gumley.com/
PS: I'm sorry I missed the IDL User Group Meeting...
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