Offline installation of SVN connectors in IDL 3/7/2023 This article proposes a workflow to complete offline installation of the SVN connectors in IDLDE, if you do not have internet access or in case the Eclipse dowload website, for automatic...Read More >
Array concatenation in IDL with arrays larger than 3 dimensions 3/7/2023 With IDL 8.8 and older versions, the concatenation of arrays using brackets is limited to 3 dimensions. Example IDL > c1=indgen(5,4,3) IDL > c2=indgen(5,4,3)*2 IDL >...Read More >
How to add Greek letters (or other special characters) into an IDL widget button 12/15/2022 The IDLDE Editor supports some UTF-8 characters, but the IDL Console and Widgets do not, so you may see differences in the way some characters are displayed in different areas of IDL. Widgets...Read More >
CURSOR procedure freezes IDL or behaves unexpectedly when running IDL remotely via SSH on MacOS 12/14/2022 PROBLEM: This issue only occurs when IDL is run remotely via SSH from another computer while you are physcially sitting at a MacOS computer. The remote machine may either be Linux or MacOS. The...Read More >
An example of how to use IDLnetURL to download data secured through OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol 12/14/2022 QUESTION: How can IDL be used to programmatically download data secured through OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol? ANSWER / EXAMPLE: This is doable with IDLnetURL! In...Read More >