| Re: IDL has problem with X windows on OS X 10.4 [message #50227] |
Mon, 18 September 2006 01:25  |
swisswuff
Messages: 7
Registered: January 2006
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IDL is not a true "Mac" standalone application.
What you can double-click from Finder is an application launcher, that
will try to run the idlde application under X11.
Now, not all of these launchers always work. I have seen such
launcher-applications fail under various Linuxes, under Gnome or KDE,
and also under CDE on AIX, particularly in conjunction with IDL, but
sometimes with other software.
So you may be looking at a problem that concerns "application
launchers" more generally, rather than a particular OS X or X11
problem.
You may want to try to not start IDL as standalone application, but
directly from within X11. I usually do it like that and do not get any
particular errors.
Here is what I'd do:
- start X11
- pull down the Applications > Customize Menu... command
- click the "Add" button
- double click into the newly created empty row under "menu name",
and enter something sensible, such as "IDL 6.3"
- double click into the newly created empty row under "command",
and put the pathname to the application which is effectively started,
i.e. 'idlde'. Typically, that path will be as follows, but make sure
you
really get that right:
/Applications/rsi/idl_6.3/bin/idlde
If you then want to launch IDL, you'd first start X11, and pull down
the IDL command from the Applications menu.
I'd be surprised if you'd still get that error with this type of
application starting?
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