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Comment on POV-Ray destination v0.2 by michaelgalloy.com — Object graphics to the web

michaelgalloy.com — Object graphics to the web — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:16:15 +0000

[...] I have done similar things for various other new destination classes for outputs such as POV-Ray and anaglyphs. No Comments [...]

Comment on IDL 8.0: Operator overloading by Implicit Get/SetProperty calls in user-defined classes, part II | The IDL Data Point

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:51:56 +0000

[...] we can go further! What I’ll do next overlaps with the description and example of operator overloading that Mike Galloy gave some time ago, but it feels natural to extend the [...]

Comment on Tech-X at AGU by Michael Galloy

Michael Galloy — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:01:41 +0000

You said you weren’t going to AGU this year, but I still had hope that there would be something.

Comment on Tech-X at AGU by Mark Piper

Mark Piper — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:19:07 +0000

Unfortunately, VIS will not host an IDL user group meeting this year.

(Y'know, you could've asked the VIS employee you see a couple times a week, the one who'd likely be running the user group meeting...)

Comment on Logging by Tony Leggett

Tony Leggett — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:00:43 +0000

sorry my error, Mike..

Comment on Logging by Tony Leggett

Tony Leggett — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:08:17 +0000

I must have downloaded an old version of mg_log from svn.

Comment on Logging by Michael Galloy

Michael Galloy — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:40:41 +0000

I'm not sure what you mean by a "filename parameter to a log file"? The filename for a log file can be specified using the FILENAME keyword to MG_LOG.

Comment on Logging by Tony Leggett

Tony Leggett — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:22:42 +0000

Looks to be a useful tool for IDLDE testing. The filename parameter to a log file is not implemented in the version 1.0 is it?

Comment on IDLdoc 3.4 released by Michael Galloy

Michael Galloy — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:06:26 +0000

It’s not easy being green…

Comment on IDLdoc 3.4 released by Mark Piper

Mark Piper — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:02:11 +0000

I like the new color scheme! (Sorry Mike, I always edited the default CSS to make blue scheme.)

Comment on Logging by Michael Galloy

Michael Galloy — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:50:03 +0000

Thanks! I have really found MG_SUBS to be pretty useful. Another feature about it that I didn't mention is that substitution variables can be provided via a hash as well.

Comment on Logging by Robin Wilson

Robin Wilson — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:23:24 +0000

Wow - I must say, I absolutely love this. I've been wanting something like this for ages - and I think I might spend most of Monday adding this in to most of the code I've written.

mg_subs sounds great too - seems to be very like the Ruby syntax for including strings, which I prefer to almost any other language.

Keep up the great work,

Robin

Comment on Logging by Michael Galloy

Michael Galloy — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:22:29 +0000

I didn’t know that people used the forums on the Exelis VIS website!

Comment on Logging by Adam Ginsburg

Adam Ginsburg — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:52:55 +0000

Cool, that's much better than any of the logging solutions I've come up with. Though the search-and-replace required to use it now is a bit heavy...

Comment on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion by Michael Galloy

Michael Galloy — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:48:19 +0000

I don't use CURSOR, but there was a thread on the newsgroup recently about a workaround for their CURSOR problems on Lion.

Comment on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion by Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:18:25 +0000

Over at the AstroBetter posting, we are having several reports of cursor issues in IDL with Lion. As an IDL expert who has also installed Lion, have you experienced anything like this? See comment #3 in the thread.

Comment on ColorBrewer by Please use sensible colours in your maps – BLAH TEST

Please use sensible colours in your maps – BLAH TEST — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:02:09 +0000

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Comment on DLM implementing Kahan summation by Michael Galloy

Michael Galloy — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:09:57 +0000

Once you have the mechanism for float and double, it's easy to get the others. Implementing all the types let's you just use it without having to worry what type of data you have.

I should implement complex and double complex, though.

Comment on DLM implementing Kahan summation by Thorbjørn Willoch

Thorbjørn Willoch — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:20:07 +0000

Kahan summation is for floating point. No point having that for integer types.

Comment on Modern IDL 1.1 update by David Fanning

David Fanning — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:38:15 +0000

Mike writes:

I think “function graphics” is a better term that is less likely to not make sense when the next graphics system comes out.

Hooray! I had almost given up hope, it was so lonely out here! I have been giving some thought to how I would write my own object graphics next new graphics system. I was thinking I would have to called it "Newest Graphics." Now, maybe I can think of a better name for it!