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Re: painful IDL 7 online help [message #60834]

Fri, 20 June 2008 08:32

Vince Hradil
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Registered: December 1999

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On Jun 20, 9:45 am, LC's No-Spam Newsreading account
<nos...@mi.iasf.cnr.it> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, David Fanning wrote:
>> You can select any number of other browser options, including using an
>> internal browser, I think. Anyway, worth a try.
>
> I saw some notes about "Solaris and some Linux versions not supporting
> an internal browser" (but I wouldn't be able to retrieve them, it is
> really too painful to navigate the help with one window coming up at
> each click)
>
>> You can find the Web Browser preference under the General Preference
>> tab in Preferences.
>
> Preferences OF WHAT ?
> I assume you do not mean firefox Preferences.
>
> And the (first) help window which comes out invoking "?" has no
> Preferences link at all.
>
> Note I type "?" in the linemode client (the script
> /lnx/idl/idl70/bin/idl on our system, or the process with executable
> /lnx/idl/idl70/bin/bin.linux.x86/idl).
>
> The linemode client, not the development environment (which I never use)
>
> No setup one can place in STARTUP.pro or in an .Xdefaults file ?
>
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No, he means eclipse preferences:
Window->Preferences->General->Web Browser

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		Re: painful IDL 7 online help By: Vince Hradil on Fri, 20 June 2008 08:32
		Re: painful IDL 7 online help By: LC's No-Spam Newsread[1] on Fri, 20 June 2008 07:45
		Re: painful IDL 7 online help By: David Fanning on Fri, 20 June 2008 05:51
		Re: painful IDL 7 online help By: Peter Clinch on Fri, 20 June 2008 05:38
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