| Re: Issue with the workbench menu [message #73939 is a reply to message #73938] |
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Jean[2]
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On Dec 9, 1:54 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Jean writes:
>> I have some issues with the workbench on my Mac (leopard server). I'm
>> using IDL 8.0.1 but got the same problem with 8.0.0. When I installed
>> IDL 8.0.0 for the first time, everyting went ok but after a while the
>> menus start to behave strangely. Most (but not all) the shortcuts keys
>> are not displayed anymore and I have sometime a menu with several
>> times the same option (such as Toggle Comment). Any idea what is going
>> here and/or what I should do to fix that? And sometimes, some of the
>> options that should be available to me (such as Format) are disabled.
>> I forgot to mention that I removed my previous version of IDL (7.1)
>> before installing 8.0.
>
> Oh, oh. Bad decision there!
>
> My IDL 7.1 version works perfectly (even IDL on-line help,
> which was previously annoying the hell out of me because
> I had to start it 3-4 times to get it to "catch", works
> perfectly now) after I installed IDL 8. I use IDL 8 to
> figure out what people are talking about, occasionally.
> But all my real work is done in IDL 7.1. IDL 8 is very,
> very strange on my Windows machine. :-(
>
> Anyway, I'll bet you have to re-install. But I would start
> by re-installing IDL 7 first. I think you will be happy
> you did. ;-)
>
> 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.")
Ok. I will try that David. I removed IDL 7.0 because I noticed the
issue the first time with both IDL installed and the ITT people
recommended me to remove the old version. I'm so addicted to the
negative indexing and the !null entity that I can't go back to 7.1
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