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Re: Is IDL 8.1 Useable!? [message #77552 is a reply to message #77551] Thu, 08 September 2011 01:59 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
lecacheux.alain is currently offline  lecacheux.alain
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On 8 sep, 05:50, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I don't want to put a big damper on all the fun, but
> I have a serious question. Is anyone actually using
> IDL 8.1 and function graphics?
>
> Not only are function graphics commands completely
> opaque to  me when I just try to do the simplest things,
> but in the past several days I have COMPLETELY buggered
> my machine four times running function graphics
> programs! This is a nifty little machine, with
> a pretty darned expensive graphics card, the very
> latest Windows 7, JAVA updates, etc. And it has been
> completely and utterly buggered four times!
> This is four times more than this machine has been
> buggered since I got the damn thing.
>
> I can't even catch its attention long enough to
> summon the task manager to kill a process. I have
> to kill the whole machine by holding the start button
> in for 5 seconds. It takes about 20 minutes to re-boot
> and get going again. And as God is my witness, I don't
> dare run the function graphics program again, for fear
> I'll be twiddling my thumbs for another half hour!
>
> I don't know. This just seems utterly hopeless to me. :-(
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> P.S. Please, someone, give me some good news! Or at least
> some ideas for things I can try.
>
> --
> 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.")

I guess that IDL 8.1 would be usable, but actually, on my Windows
machines, the Workbench is not ! As stated in a previous message, I am
facing frequent Workbench crashes in the course of long sessions. The
crashes may occur during graphic screen plotting as well as during the
execution of a simple statement. I even got one crash while only
moving the mouse ... In my opinion, the crashes might be due to the
accumulation with time of "small" errors, like internal memory leaks,
default in acquiring handles, etc... They certainly are related to the
Workbench, since I never had one by using the IDL line command. The
appearence of the crashes is like David Fanning is describing: you
suddendly completely loose the control of your desktop (in fact the
windows refreshing mechanism becomes entirely corrupted, on the whole
desktop), and you have to rely on the Task Manager to stop IDL
(several successive attempts are usually needed) and to restart the
Explorer... All the machines I am working with are running various
Windows systems (win32 or 64, XP or W7), are regularly kept updated
(including JAVA) and are equipped with different graphic cards (but
all from NVIDIA). There is certainly something bad with Eclipse, with
Eclipse on Windows or with the implementation of the IDL GUI through
Eclipse by ITTVIS.
Hoping that this will be corrected in 8.2 ...
alx.

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