| Re: Catalyst Library [message #63805 is a reply to message #42314] |
Wed, 19 November 2008 09:59   |
Vince Hradil
Messages: 574
Registered: December 1999
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On Nov 19, 11:56 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I still haven't heard from Vince about the details of his woes
> with the Catalyst Library, but since we are talking about clear
> instructions this morning, I thought I might pass along this
> note that I got last night. Here, the clear instructions are
> NO instructions!
>
> I thought that I would just write a note to say how much I
> appreciate you making the Catalyst library open-source!
>
> I have been an IDL programmer since about 1993 (version 3.something,
> I think!). I use IDL mainly for what it is good at, namely rapid
> development of scientific data analyses. For the past 10 years
> or so, I have been mainly using it as a glorified scripting
> language, although I did write a very large application a
> number of years ago.
>
> I have just had the need to create a fairly large new GUI
> application and I thought that, with the benefit of knowledge
> of other application development in Java, I would try to create
> something coded to 2008 standards. Just by chance, I logged
> onto your site last week and I haven't looked back. The whole
> user interface - some 80 active elements - went up with great
> ease in a couple of evenings.
>
> This is more in line with my experience with Catalyst, but I'm
> still wondering what it was Vince was running into. I'm interested
> in your experience. It is *almost* ready for its official release. :-)
>
> 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.")
Sorry David, things have been pretty hectic. In fact, I wasn't able
to recreate my crashes the other day. Maybe I'll have a little time
to get to this in the next couple of days.
Thanks,
Vince
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