| Re: Running IDL .pro script from another app, using the IDL API [message #55848] |
Wed, 19 September 2007 10:42  |
R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998
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Jim Brown wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our R&D group uses IDL and has written .pro scripts for use in
> testing. Our test engineers use a Microsoft Windows desktop app
> (developed in-house) but have to get out of the app, start IDL, and
> then run a script. This happens several times during a test. What I'd
> like to do is to have our testing app call an IDL API and run the
> script "in the background" while the test engineer did something else.
> However, I don't know if this can even be done. Most of the
> documentation that I've been reading addresses calling an external
> program from within IDL - I want to do the opposite.
>
> Does anyone have any experience doing this? Just point me in the right
> direction if you can.
>
> Thank you.
> - Jim Brown
>
Hi Jim
this can be done you can have a look at the
compile or resolve_dependencies routine
from our lib at
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro. html
which do call another idl session.
cheers
Reimar
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Reimar Bauer
Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
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