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Re: RESOLVE_ROUTINE essentially unusable on linux? [message #77257 is a reply to message #77189]

Fri, 12 August 2011 14:54

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Brian Wolven writes:

> If you develop and run in the same environment you're
> not likely to have problems. If you need portability,
> you'll have to watch out for gotchas like this when
> going from one OS to another.

To be fair to IDL, there are only about two rules
to achieve portability (and maybe a couple more if
you are writing widget programs):

Rule 1: Pay attention to file names. Save files
in lowercase letters and use file routines (e.g.,
FindFile, File_Search, Dialog_Pickfile) to
construct file names.

Rule 2: Save the current device so you can restore
it before you reset it.

thisDevice = !D.Name
Set_Plot, 'PS'
....
Set_Plot, thisDevice

That's about the extent of it. Everything else, to
ITTVIS's credit, just works. :-)

Cheers,

David

--
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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