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Re: IDL_IDLBridge and IDL8 [message #72712 is a reply to message #72664]

Mon, 04 October 2010 09:05

Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006

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On 10/1/10 1:31 AM, alx wrote:
> On 29 sep, 11:37, alx<lecacheux.al...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>> When creating IDL_IDLBridge object, I get the following error message:
>>
>> % Unable to start IDL_IDLBRIDGE slave process.
>>
>> I am using IDL8 and Windows 64 bits
>> { x86_64 Win32 Windows Microsoft Windows 8.0 Jun 17 2010
>> 64 64}
>>
>> Same code shows no error under IDL7.1 and Windows 32 bits.
>>
>> What happens ?
>> alx.
>
> I answer by myself :
> The statement in error was "s = idl_idlbridge(OUTPUT='toto.log')". The
> cause of the error likely was that the output path must be fully
> expanded and must point to a path with proper access rights, whatever
> the current directory of the calling program is.
> Same behavior under IDL 7.1.
> Therefore, another question will follow: what is the way to provide
> relative paths to idl_idlbridge ?
> alx.
>

FILE_EXPAND_PATH converts relative paths to absolute paths:

IDL> print, file_expand_path('test.log')
/Users/mgalloy/test.log

Mike
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		IDL_IDLBridge and IDL8 By: lecacheux.alain on Wed, 29 September 2010 02:37
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