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Re: IDL 8.0 onwards: can I always use the same workspace? [message #91051 is a reply to message #91047]

Thu, 28 May 2015 03:34

David Fanning
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Mari Liza writes:

> Do you mean to tell me that you are able to simultaneously load two, three, four different IDL 8.0 onwards in WINDOWS and not have IDL ask you for a new workspace each time?

No, I never run two, three, or four different IDL sessions
simultaneously. I run one IDL session continuously for weeks and weeks
at a time. :-)

I've never run more than one IDL session. Nor, with the possible
exception of wanting to do something on the IDL_Bridge (which I have
never used in any real way), can I think of any reason why I would want
to run simultaneous IDL sessions. It has just never come up for me as
something I needed to do.

> PLEASE tell me how to set this up, I have tried everything, unclicked all sorts of "refresh workspace at start-up", "prompt for workspace at start-up", I have asked IDL to keep in memory 30 different workspaces, but nothing works. If IDL is running once, then from the second instance onwards it asks for a new workspace.

I just installed IDL. That's it. I didn't "do" anything to set it up.
That's just how it has always worked from the get-go.

> This includes running save files simultaneously.

Yeah, I never use save files, either. I find them confounding. In the
many years I've worked with IDL, I've found that people who use save
files are among the most confused of IDL's users. Except for saving
data, I'm not clear what (if any) their advantages are.

Cheers,

David
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		IDL 8.0 onwards: can I always use the same workspace? By: MariLiza on Wed, 27 May 2015 02:39
		Re: IDL 8.0 onwards: can I always use the same workspace? By: David Fanning on Wed, 27 May 2015 05:08
		Re: IDL 8.0 onwards: can I always use the same workspace? By: MariLiza on Wed, 27 May 2015 23:44
		Re: IDL 8.0 onwards: can I always use the same workspace? By: Helder Marchetto on Thu, 28 May 2015 00:21
		Re: IDL 8.0 onwards: can I always use the same workspace? By: MariLiza on Thu, 28 May 2015 01:29
		Re: IDL 8.0 onwards: can I always use the same workspace? By: Helder Marchetto on Thu, 28 May 2015 03:11
		Re: IDL 8.0 onwards: can I always use the same workspace? By: David Fanning on Thu, 28 May 2015 03:34
		Re: IDL 8.0 onwards: can I always use the same workspace? By: MariLiza on Thu, 28 May 2015 06:41
		Re: IDL 8.0 onwards: can I always use the same workspace? By: David Fanning on Thu, 28 May 2015 07:28

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