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Re: Help menu in 8.0 [message #75460]

Mon, 14 March 2011 08:25

chris_torrence@NOSPAM is currently offline

chris_torrence@NOSPAM
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Hi all,

The help system in IDL 7.0 and 7.1 was based on the Eclipse help
system, which was indeed sluggish in starting up.

In IDL 8.0 we switched to just using a browser-based help. Any
slowness in starting up help is purely due to the browser itself, not
IDL.

One suggestion - you can fire up the web browser separately, and just
navigate to the the help file within <IDL_DIR>/help/online_help/IDL/
idl.html. Then you can bookmark that page, and keep the help running
all the time. Unfortunately, this doesn't have the convenience of
using "?fft" from within IDL, but at least it will be faster for you.

Cheers,

Chris
ITTVIS

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