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Re: Book Tour Report [message #75810 is a reply to message #75803]

Sat, 30 April 2011 17:14

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Craig and Gray write:

>> P.S. My vote for a book would be a way to turn files into objects.
>> The current situation with logical unit numbers harkens back to the
>> FORTRAN of the 1970s.
>
> Or, speaking of files, how about a nice and neat way of dealing with
> parameter files?

Humm, I like these suggestions, both of which I have
implemented before in the DataViewer application I wrote
for NSIDC. Which--coincidence!?--is written with the
Catalyst Library.

Perhaps an "Application Programming in IDL" book
that starts with GUI fundamentals, which leads
naturally to objects and the Catalyst Library,
which leads to all manner of neat and useful
applications and tools you can build with objects.

Humm. I guess I better go order Ronn Kling's new
book. Maybe he has beat me to this idea. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. The fact that Craig is suggesting objects has
me REALLY excited! ;-)

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: Book Tour Report By: Maarten[1] on Mon, 02 May 2011 04:15
		Re: Book Tour Report By: David Fanning on Sat, 30 April 2011 17:14
		Re: Book Tour Report By: Gray on Sat, 30 April 2011 16:58
		Re: Book Tour Report By: Craig Markwardt on Sat, 30 April 2011 13:59
		Re: Book Tour Report By: Mort Canty on Fri, 29 April 2011 06:52
		Re: Book Tour Report By: David Fanning on Fri, 29 April 2011 06:19
		Re: Book Tour Report By: Mort Canty on Fri, 29 April 2011 05:24
		Re: Book Tour Report By: David Fanning on Thu, 28 April 2011 15:40
		Re: Book Tour Report By: pgrigis on Thu, 28 April 2011 14:11

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