What's New in IDL 8.7.2

New Features
Updates
Library Updates
See Also

For links to What's New information for other IDL 8.x releases, go to See Also.

New Features

WIDGET_BROWSER

The new WIDGET_BROWSER function enables you to create a web browser widget. The browser supports a wide variety of content, such as HTML5, JavaScript, video, and WebGL. With WIDGET_BROWSER, you can also:

Create multiple browsers within the same widget application.
Load a page from either a local HTML file or a web URL from the Internet.
Send data back and forth and receive notifications from the browser.

See the WIDGET_BROWSER topic for details and examples.

FILLPLOT

The new FILLPLOT function enables you to draw a pair of plot lines with the area between the lines filled in. You can create plots with both symmetric and asymmetric fill areas. See the FILLPLOT topic for details and an example.

Updates

IMSL Documentation Added

The complete set of IMSL routines have been added to IDL Help. Previously, all IMSL documentation was available only via PDF. The IMSL topics can be found in the IDL Help TOC under Routines (alphabetical) > Routines: I > IMSL Advanced Math and Statistics, and Routines (by topic).

Library Updates

The IDL Python bridge has now supports Python 3.6.7
Switch from Oracle JRE to Zulu OpenJDK JRE
The JRE library has been updated to version 1.8.0_192
The libCurl library has been updated to version 7.62.0
The OpenSSL library within cURL has been updated to version 1.1.0j
The Xerces library has been updated to version 3.2.2
The FreeType library has been updated to 2.9.1
The LibXML2 library was updated to 2.9.7

Product	IDL

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