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Re: Google Static Maps in IDL [message #80843 is a reply to message #80768]

Thu, 12 July 2012 13:36

Craig Markwardt
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On Thursday, July 12, 2012 2:16:57 PM UTC-4, Mike Galloy wrote:
> On 7/12/12 12:00 PM, Coyote wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 12, 2012 5:59:52 AM UTC-6, Fab wrote:
> >
> >> Great stuff David!
> >>
> >> It works perfectly on my machine and on my university network:
> >>
> >> { x86_64 linux unix linux 7.1.1 Aug 21 2009 64 64}
> >
> > The problem appears now to be related to an environment variable on Macs. I am trying to store the image that comes back from Google in a temporary directory located with the GetEnv command like this:
> >
> > tempdir = GetEnv('IDL_TMPDIR', /ENVIRONMENT)
> >
> > This directory either doesn't exist, or can't be written into, on this particular Mac. Can someone with a Mac help me understand what this directory might be?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David
> >
>
> For me on my Mac with IDL 8.1 and 8.2, both
>
> IDL> print, getenv('IDL_TMPDIR')
> /var/folders/j2/hhx4tc4d6wn13qkl4mj_dksr0000gz/T/
> IDL> print, filepath('', /tmp)
> /var/folders/j2/hhx4tc4d6wn13qkl4mj_dksr0000gz/T/
>
> yield the same thing and I can write to files in that directory.

Yep, same success here!
Craig

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		Google Static Maps in IDL By: David Fanning on Wed, 11 July 2012 08:38
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		Re: Google Static Maps in IDL By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 12 July 2012 13:36
		Re: Google Static Maps in IDL By: David Fanning on Thu, 12 July 2012 11:43
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