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Re: IDL 5.0 observations [message #9067 is a reply to message #9064]

Thu, 29 May 1997 00:00

Joseph M Zawodny
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Registered: March 1996

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And some more observations. During installation on NT, IDL redefines
what double clicking on a .pro file does. It now fires up IDL and
opens a edit window - fine enough. You cannot print a text hard copy
of the .pro file from within IDL though! Furthermore, I had added to
the list of things you can do to a file when you right click on its
filename to include a print option (via notepad.exe), but V5 install
deleted this addition - easy enough to fix (but should I have had to?).

Early "leaks" or announcements of IDL V5 included a statement to the
effect that there would be "multithreading" (at least of some sort)
which would allow continuous access to the command line while other
IDL "things" were happening. Well this is not true, When IDL is
busy it is busy period - no response to the command line - can't even
type to it.

Widgets seem to have changed thier ordering or justification. When
I can get them to realize in a meaningful way, they now justify from
right to left rather than left to right as they had done under version
4.0.

As I hack away at my formerly working code to get it to run under V5
I will undobtedly come across other "new features" and will report them
here. I encourage others to share what they find and the associated
fixes - if any.

JMZ

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		Re: IDL 5.0 observations By: David Foster on Fri, 30 May 1997 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.0 observations By: Andy Loughe on Thu, 29 May 1997 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.0 observations By: jackel[1] on Thu, 29 May 1997 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.0 observations By: Joseph M Zawodny on Thu, 29 May 1997 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.0 observations By: Joseph M Zawodny on Thu, 29 May 1997 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.0 observations By: Joseph M Zawodny on Thu, 29 May 1997 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.0 observations By: Stein Vidar Hagfors H on Mon, 02 June 1997 00:00
		Re: IDL 5.0 observations By: Joseph M Zawodny on Thu, 29 May 1997 00:00

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