Miscellaneous Tips
- It can't get command line editing to work in my LINUX installation of IDL. What's going on?
- Is there a way to make the SPAWN command non-blockingon Windows platforms?
- How can I run IDL programs if I don't have a three-button mouse?
- I hear you read poetry in your IDL classes. Do you have any programming poems?
- I've heard the idlwave emacs mode is the greatest thing since sliced bread. What's up with that?
- I'm having trouble getting on-line help to work with my Linux version of IDL. Any ideas?
- What is the IDL Expert Programmers Association, and how can I join?
- I heard Mark Hadfield's Motley Library was now on your site. Where is it?
- How can I get automatic updates to New IDL Programming Tips?
- Do you answer questions about ENVI?
- How do I configure IDL to run correctly on LINUX machines?
- How can I run IDL without an X server?
- My Macintosh OS X X11 xterm window cannot gain focus. What can I do?
- Help! I can't get my double- precision values converted to strings properly.
- Help! The Cursor command doesn't work on my Mac!
- Yikes! Running IDL 6.3 on a Macintosh from terminal window crashes IDL.
- Yo Mama's So...IDL Humor?!
- Is JULDAY returning the correct value?
- After upgrading to MacOS 10.4.8, IDL crashes with a segmentation fault. Any ideas?
- My IDL/MacOS 10.4.7 combination crashes intermittently with a corrupted descriptor error. Any ideas?
- Can I download IDL Programming Techniques as a PDF file?
- What kind of books do IDL programmers read in their spare time?
- Whoa! Simple graphics commands are causing segmentation faults. What happened!?
- Is there an IDL programming Style Guide anywhere?
- How does IDL stack up against other programming languages with respect to speed of execution?
- How can I get mouse cursor events to work on a remote IDL session?
- What in the world is the DIST function used for?
- Yikes! Here is a fix to a potentially dangerous TIMEGEN bug.
- Yikes! Is there a problem with IDL and the October 2007 Mac Leopard release?
- Every time I call MESH_DECIMATE, IDL crashes. What's going on?
- Is there a command line version of IDL for Windows?
- Tired of IDL? Need a good book? Here are Coyote's recommendations.
- How come DIALOG_PICKFILE starts looking for files in a strange directory?
- Calling Heap_Free with large arrays crashes IDL. What's going on?
- Is the Mac OS X 10.5.5 update causing cursor problems in IDL?
- Does anyone blog about IDL around here?
- How can I open a desktop folder from within IDL?
- Why can't the IDL Bridge Assistant resolve my object program?
- How can I run widget programs when stopped at a breakpoint?
- Why are array indices valid as vectors but not as scalars?
- I run ENVI+IDL, but where the heck is the IDL command line?
- Help! I can't make an IDL save file with XObjView that works on the IDL Virtual Machine?
- What do people use to read the IDL newsgroup?
- IDL Libraries Available in a Subversion Repository
- Is the IDL 8 WShow command broken?
- Why do breakpoints only work occasionally in the IDL 8 Workbench?
- Is the new IDL 8 garbage collection a little over-zealous?
- Are there memory allocation problems in IDL 8.0?
- Draft chapters of a new book, Coyote's Guide to Traditional IDL Graphics, are available.
- Is the IDL 8 on-line help, uh, incomplete?
- Are LISTS Useful? An IDL Newsgroup discussion.
- Yikes! What happened to TVImage, FSC_Color, and FSC_Colorbar? Have these programs been renamed?
- The long-awaited book, Coyote's Guide to Traditional IDL Graphics, has been released!
- Warning! Using the variable name “image” ist verboten in IDL 8!
- Whoa! Has the backward compatibility of save files been broken in IDL 8!
- Confidence betrayed! Bug found in Histogram routine!
- Is IDL 8.1 useable?
- Mac update causes BadMatch error in Coyote Graphics routines.
- What is known about IDL 8.1 crashing on Macintosh computers running MacOS 10.7.2?
- JD Smith on using "dimension-less" arrays for multi-dimensional operations.
- Is the syntax for accessing hash data, well, strange?
- How do I create an IDL start-up file?
- Mac Mountain Lion update can cause problems with IDL.
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Last Updated: 25 July 2011
