General Programming Tips

• What are the 10 Most Common Programming Errors in IDL?
• Where can I find good examples of IDL programs?
• Can I create an IDL executable file?
• How do I create a stand-alone or run-time application on my Windows computer?
• TVRD gives me strange results. What is going on?
• How can I compile a program from within another program?
• Can someone help me link my FORTRAN programs into IDL?
• Do you have any tips for calling C programs from IDL?
• What's this about Dynamically Loadable Modules (DLM)? I can't find any documentation.
• In C or C++, there is the notion of include files. Does IDL have such a thing?
• Unanswerable Questions: E-Mail from Pablo Neruda.
• When is TRUE true and when is it false?
• Oh, oh! What's going on when I do logical operations on two arrays?
• Is IDL column-major or row-major?
• Endless loops suck! How can I interrupt loops on Windows?
• Is there a way to tell if IDL is running in DEMO or RUNTIME mode?
• I want to use TeX style string formatting in IDL. Can I?
• OK, my IDL program is slow, but why is it slow?
• Is there a memory leak in the IDL Java Export Bridge?
• Uh, is the Where function broken?
• How can I tell if another instance of my IDL run-time application is running?
• Is is possible to undefine a system variable in IDL?
• Out-of-bounds array indices are truncated. Say what?!
• Warning! Using the variable name “image” ist verboten in IDL 8!
• Whoa! Has the backward compatibility of save files been broken in IDL 8!