Re: [udf-dlm-develop] IDL popup

[Ed S. <es...@po...>]

Widgets?!  You must be using Wintendoze or Mac... except you
mention tcsh.  Maybe you're running under a GUI interface thing?
Maybe "idlde"?  The popup is certainly not coming from my code.

IDL_Message() is documented in the IDL External Development Guide
(typically called "edg.pdf").  It is the accepted way to return
error status.  It emits an error message and exits the current
procedure.  I have never seen it pop up a clicky thing, but I
only do UNIX.  

Please do not eliminate IDL_Message() from the sources.  You
can use the IDL "CATCH" mechanism for trapping errors.  That
is the recommended and supported way for IDL to handle any error
condition.

  >It tends to slow things down when human intervention is required.

It will be hard to find *anyone* more fanatical about this than me.
Automation is my fundamental credo.  That's why the LANL processing
of MENA data continues despite my having left a month ago.  The whole
point of UDF-DLM was to avoid the B.S. clicky stuff!

If "CATCH" doesn't do the job, please let me know.

Regards, and best wishes,
^E