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Coyote's BIG Idea [message #74518]

Mon, 24 January 2011 06:03

David Fanning
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Folks,

I guess in a 25 year career I have had one or two BIG ideas.
They usually come to me in the shower. But, since I'm not
taking showers while I'm in the final stages of getting this
book out the door, this one sneaked up on me while I was bleary-
eyed at my desk.

Andrew Cool asked me a question about FSC_Window last
night. He wanted to programmatically get the window
index number of the resizeable graphics window so he
could add commands to it. (He was making a movie of
a time-series, of all things.) So I built a little
query routine that allowed me to return information
about all the FSC_Window apps on the display. It took
about 5 minutes to write that, and another 5 minutes
to write a selection routine so you could choose which
of the FSC_Window apps you wanted to add commands to.

And then it hit me. If I can select which FSC_Window
I want to add commands to, then I can treat these
FSC_Window apps just like normal graphics windows.
A couple of quick modifications to the Coyote Graphics
routines, and I now have a system of commands that work
in resizeable graphics windows *exactly* like normal
graphics commands work in traditional graphics windows.
WOW!!! *And* automatic PostScript file generation. *And*
the ability to make raster files of the window content.

This is friggin' UN-BE_LEAVE-A-BLE!

Anyway, I still have a some work to do this morning.
But I was up at 5:30 AM working on this to make sure
it was as good an idea this morning as it seemed last
night. It may be even better than I thought!

I'll let you know when you can play with this, but...Goodness! :-)

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Coyote's BIG Idea By: David Fanning on Mon, 24 January 2011 06:03
		Re: Coyote's BIG Idea By: David Fanning on Wed, 26 January 2011 08:36
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