IRAF and More - For Mac Using Astronomers and Astrophysicists
I’m not running IDL of any stripe on my Macbook, but it would seem there is a patch for IDL 6.4 that will fix compatibility issues you may encounter with Leopard. From what I can tell from this thread the problem sounds related to the X11 changes in Leopard. Share This
Tags: IDL, Leopard — .If you have any issues getting IDL to properly record/recognize the cursor position or mouse clicks, you may want to try this command in the terminal
defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_click_through -bool true
Frank Varosi here at UF gave me this tip, which he found at this french site. What this command does is it […]
Tags: apple, IDL, Leopard, x11 — .If you’re using IDL on a Mac, and also have the IDL license server running on the same Mac, it’s apparently necessary to set HOSTNAME in /etc/hostconfig. In the old days of OS X this was set by default in hostconfig with a line
HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-
but this is no longer the case in Tiger, and maybe […]
Tags: IDL — .I discovered MPFIT for tweaking parameters and optimizing curve fits. I had never used curvefit (and when I tried, it didn’t go that well.) MPFIT takes a bit of time to get the hang of, and I had to tweak my curve-generating code to make it play nice with MPFIT…. and the initial […]
Tags: fitting, IDL, MPFIT — .So, we now have an official word on upcoming changes to IRAF support. The leaked news of changes to IRAF certainly generated some discussion, and some emails. Several questions remain, for me, however in light of this news from NOAO.
It’s certainly understandable that NOAO has in mind to take data reduction at its […]
Tags: community, future, IDL, IRAF, iraf support, iraf.net, unix — .