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.
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 — .