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Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? [message #77521]

Fri, 09 September 2011 07:21

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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David Fanning writes:

> OK, let's think about this for a minute. What did we
> learn yesterday?
>
> First, a LOT of people find IDL 8.1 either crashing itself
> or crashing their machines. In my case, we found that this
> is because a graphics driver was out of date.

I think I spoke too soon. :-(

Some things are MUCH better this morning. The program I
wrote yesterday that absolutely crashed my machine actually
works! But, when I went back to my original problem of
trying to make a filled contour plot that had a defined
number of colors, and I ran the program Mark Piper had
sent me yesterday morning, I crashed again (twice!) in
exactly the same way.

So, I would say IDL 8.1 and function graphics is pretty
much hopeless for me. I don't think there is anything
I can do to make these things work, except possibly
offer to purchase the machines and hardware ITTVIS
is using in their offices. (If they are selling!)

I still think the problem lies in the COLORBAR function,
because this is still the place where my machine goes
south.

Maybe I should get used to the "new" way of thinking
that doesn't use color bars. That really is so 1970s! ;-)

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.")

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		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Fri, 09 September 2011 07:21
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Fri, 09 September 2011 06:46
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: M. Katz on Thu, 08 September 2011 23:07
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 September 2011 20:18
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: Paul[3] on Thu, 08 September 2011 19:40
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 September 2011 10:07
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 08 September 2011 09:33
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: lecacheux.alain on Thu, 08 September 2011 09:22
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 September 2011 08:41
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 September 2011 08:32
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 08 September 2011 08:09
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 September 2011 06:46
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 September 2011 06:23
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: greg.addr on Thu, 08 September 2011 03:53
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: lecacheux.alain on Thu, 08 September 2011 01:59
		Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 11 September 2011 12:52

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