Monthly Archives: February 2012

Aligning widgets

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

(Note:  Today, since I’m giving a webinar, we have another guest post by Jim Pendleton, an Advisory Consultant in the Exelis VIS Professional Services Group.  I indented his code for him. –MP) Working with IDL’s widget geometry can be challenging … Continue reading →

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Live IDL webinar: “GRIB, Demystified!”

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

I’m giving a set of three live webinars on working with the IDL GRIB library next Thursday, 2012 February 23. Please check our live web seminar page for an abstract and registration details. Here’s the page from which you can download … Continue reading →

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A cool visualization with (New) Graphics

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

Matt Trawick, an associate professor of physics at the University of Richmond, develops atomic force microscopy techniques for use in studying various nanostructures. He used C++ and IDL 8 to analyze his data and produce, with (New) Graphics, this visualization: … Continue reading →

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Implicit Get/SetProperty calls in user-defined classes, part II

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

A few months ago, I posted a demonstration of how to use the implicit Get/SetProperty call allowed by subclasses of IDL_Object, using existing Object Graphics classes as the basis. Here, I’d like to go a little further: I’ll write a … Continue reading →

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Upcoming IDL classes

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

There are a few seats open in three IDL classes that I’ll be teaching (and these may be my last, since my job is changing). They are: Scientific Programming with IDL, February 15-17 in Boulder Introduction to IDL, February 29 … Continue reading →

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