IDL 8.2.2 was released today:
IDL 8.2.2 is now available for download from our website, exelisvis.com. Although it’s primarily a maintenance release (including 104 bugs fixed), it also has some meat, with updates in, primarily, the categories of (New) Graphics, language and file access.
Haven’t been able to download yet, but will take a look at this as soon as I can get my hands on it.
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March 1st, 2013 at 6:04 am
Hi Michel,
I updated my docset list, including a IDLdoc-to-docset script to create your own IDL library docset based on your great IDLdoc.
I packed the IDL 8.1,8.2 ENVI 5.0 and PostGIS2 documentation in handy docset file to use with Dash (http://kapeli.com/dash/).
The list is on my blog or on my GitHub repository
Cheers!
March 24th, 2013 at 11:34 pm
Hi Michel,
I need to export some images from ENVI to IDL, I can use the export-varaible-to-idl in ENVI but I want to know how to use these images as a parameters in a function.I really appreciate you to answering me.
my function code is:
March 25th, 2013 at 2:14 pm
You want to export your images from ENVI and then call your function from IDL? or do you want a menu item that you can run your function on an image from within ENVI?