| IDL Workbench Nits [message #58002] |
Wed, 09 January 2008 14:46  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Folks,
I'm not sure if this is a question or a report. But a couple of
things I've discovered:
1. I'm writing a file with a rather long filename. When I get
finished with it, I compile it, and go down to the command
line to run it. I type the first couple of letters of its
name, then hit CNTL-space. I see a list of the modules in the
file. I choose the appropriate one. The name of the program
is completed on the command line. Now I hit the CR.
Nothing. The "command" disappears. But nothing appears
in the Console View, and my program doesn't run. The command
doesn't show up in my command history. Is this a bug?
2. In Windows IDLDE in 6.4, if I put a breakpoint in a file
and run the file, I hit the breakpoint and I can step through
the file. Typically, I discover the thing I was trying to find,
make a couple of changes in the file, hit the Save and Compile
icon, hit the remove all breakpoints button, and off I go again.
In the IDL Workbench, my file pointer, even after I recompile
the file, is still inside the file. I can't do much of anything
until I remember I have to type RETALL. I last typed RETALL this
much back in the 1960s. Is this possibly a bug? I really prefer
when I re-compile that my file pointer be removed from the file.
Oh, wait a minute. Maybe this is a problem with the file pointer
not being updated correctly. I think the recompile actually
removes the file pointer, but I don't get visual confirmation
of that fact. (I think we talked about this before and agreed
it was a bug, now that I think about it.) Anyway, RETALL
refreshes the file enough to remove the file pointer in the file.
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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