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Re: IDL Help on Mac OS [message #67052 is a reply to message #67031]

Wed, 24 June 2009 11:05

Kenneth P. Bowman
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In article <MPG.24abfa0d38deee0798a6fb@news.giganews.com>,
David Fanning <news@dfanning.com> wrote:

> Kenneth P. Bowman writes:
>
>> The whole thing is a continuous irritation. Has anyone found
>> another way to use Help that is not so intrusive?
>
> OK, scratch the Mac from my list of potential new
> computers. :-(
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

What's so jarring about the IDL Help is that it is so un-Mac-like. Mac applications
generally coexist peacefully and all operate in pretty much the same
way. No other Mac application I know of operates like this.

I wouldn't mind having an IDL Help application in the Dock if it actually did
something, but this weird arrangement where there is an application with no
real user interface, while the actual help window is in the browser, is very
unintuitive to long-time Mac users.

Mainly I want to be able to hide the IDL Help 99% of the time and not have it
in my face every time I switch to my web browser.

Ken

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		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: JDS on Fri, 26 June 2009 09:17
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Fri, 26 June 2009 08:00
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: David Fanning on Fri, 26 June 2009 07:18
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: David Klassen on Fri, 26 June 2009 07:11
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: wallabadah on Thu, 25 June 2009 21:21
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 25 June 2009 09:49
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: David Fanning on Thu, 25 June 2009 09:20
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: JDS on Thu, 25 June 2009 09:00
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 24 June 2009 11:05
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 24 June 2009 09:19
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: rogass on Wed, 24 June 2009 09:09
		Re: IDL Help on Mac OS By: David Fanning on Wed, 24 June 2009 08:54

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