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Re: IDL 5.0 observations [message #9121 is a reply to message #9092] Tue, 03 June 1997 00:00 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Paul R Smith is currently offline  Paul R Smith
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Registered: January 1996
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Just a few minor comments...

I find the toolbar buttons to compile, run and go a bit strange. Compile
is ok, but the first few times I tried pressing run it started to spout
errors in code I knew was working ok, specifically "Program code area
full..." and the like. Then I read that run only works if your program has
a procedure in it with the same name as the PRO filename. Pity cos I often
restore a lot of data that I don't like to either pass to procedures or
keep reloading in a procedure. So when I press the go button a blue arrow
jumps to the first line and stops. I find I have to hit go twice before my
main procedure actually goes. This is a step back from doing Ctrl-r in
v4.0.1 which saved/compiled and executed in one hit.

Also the break button doesn't work. I was told it worked ok in the beta,
would break out of any currently running program but not now. If thats the
case what's it for? Breaking out of widgets? (IQ tester?)

The new cut and paste keys (under Win95) annoy me, I've deleted some big
chunks of code by accident when I forgot and used the Ctrl-Ins, Shift-Del
combos which are fairly standard across win apps.

I liked the idea behind Insight but find it too clunky and slow to use.

By the way, I've seen info for getting colours tables set up if running in
24 bit mode. I haven't been able to do it for the 16 bit mode (65536
colours) I run my display in Win95. Everthing plots in red, which is ok
for line plots but I also need to produce colour contour plots.

Paul
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