IDL behaves differently when launched from Mac tool bar/command

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Last Post 24 Feb 2014 03:12 PM by anon

IDL behaves differently when launched from Mac tool bar/command line - why?

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24 Feb 2014 03:12 PM
I am running IDL8.2.3 on MacOS10.8.5. I usually launch IDL from the Mac "Dock" which brings me directly into the "Workbench" development environment (DE). I have learned, however, that IDL crashes when running certain codes from within the DE, in particular those that create a series of graphics. The fix for this apparently is to run IDL from the command line by issuing the command bash-3.2$ idlde -outofprocess IDL no longer crashes when I run my code from the DE launched this way, however, I have noticed that IDL behaves differently with respect certain things (color tables, for instance) when run from the Dock versus run from the command line. Why??? Barry

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28 Feb 2014 04:01 PM
There are some differences in the appearance of the IDL 8 Graphics windows (such as "WINDOW()", "PLOT()", and "IMAGE()") because these routines use Java windows for "-inprocess" and IDL Widget windows for "-outofprocess". As far as I know, color tables and direct graphics should behave the same. A possible cause of the problem might be there is an IDL_STARTUP environment variable defined within the terminal environment, there might be a script that is executed when you launch "idlde" from it.

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