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Re: IDL help in 8.3 [message #87094 is a reply to message #87093]

Tue, 07 January 2014 08:05

wlandsman
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Registered: June 2000

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For what its worth, I never call help from the command line or IDLDE prompt, or even using the idlhelp command. Instead I have a button on my browser pointing to the IDL help, e.g. on my Mac it points to

file:///Applications/exelis/idl83/help/online_help/IDL/idl.h tm

I like the IDL 8.3 help which seems to have new and easier search methods than IDL 8.2 did. On the other hand it also seems a bit slower. --Wayne

On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 10:08:45 AM UTC-5, Haje Korth wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 9:24:35 AM UTC-5, David Fanning wrote:
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>>> superchromix: If I had to use an old help system it would be that of IDL 6.4. That functionality, especially the search, has yet to be matched by the Eclipse help system.
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>> Yes, I often pine for good ol' IDL 6.4. IDL 7 offered support for 24-bit
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>> Did anyone provide a reason for getting rid of the help browser?
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>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
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>> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
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>> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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> I was not told why the internal help is no longer present, but, in fairness, I also did not ask. Maybe we get a developer to comment? :-)
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> Cheers,
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> Haje

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		IDL help in 8.3 By: Haje Korth on Thu, 02 January 2014 10:51
		Re: IDL help in 8.3 By: Bill Nel on Fri, 03 January 2014 13:57
		Re: IDL help in 8.3 By: markb77 on Mon, 06 January 2014 00:27
		Re: IDL help in 8.3 By: amanda.oconnor77 on Mon, 06 January 2014 12:24
		Re: IDL help in 8.3 By: Haje Korth on Tue, 07 January 2014 04:42
		Re: IDL help in 8.3 By: David Fanning on Tue, 07 January 2014 06:24
		Re: IDL help in 8.3 By: Haje Korth on Tue, 07 January 2014 07:08
		Re: IDL help in 8.3 By: wlandsman on Tue, 07 January 2014 08:05
		Re: IDL help in 8.3 By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Wed, 08 January 2014 15:39
		Re: IDL help in 8.3 By: Phillip Bitzer on Wed, 08 January 2014 19:41
		Re: IDL help in 8.3 By: Haje Korth on Thu, 09 January 2014 16:02
		Re: IDL help in 8.3 By: markb77 on Tue, 07 January 2014 03:14
		Re: IDL help in 8.3 By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 07 January 2014 05:33

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