ERROR when activating a license: The size of provided data is incorrect 3/20/2023 Description: When trying to activate or deactivate a local (node-locked) license using the L3Harris License Administrator application, you may encounter an error similar to the...Read More >
How to add Greek letters (or other special characters) into an IDL widget button 12/15/2022 The IDLDE Editor supports some UTF-8 characters, but the IDL Console and Widgets do not, so you may see differences in the way some characters are displayed in different areas of IDL. Widgets...Read More >
CURSOR procedure freezes IDL or behaves unexpectedly when running IDL remotely via SSH on MacOS 12/14/2022 PROBLEM: This issue only occurs when IDL is run remotely via SSH from another computer while you are physcially sitting at a MacOS computer. The remote machine may either be Linux or MacOS. The...Read More >
An example of how to use IDLnetURL to download data secured through OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol 12/14/2022 QUESTION: How can IDL be used to programmatically download data secured through OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol? ANSWER / EXAMPLE: This is doable with IDLnetURL! In...Read More >
How to transfer your IDL Command History file to another computer or user 12/14/2022 Background: By default, IDL will store your recently-entered commands into a special buffer memory/file called the IDL Command History. These commands can be viewed, edited, and re-entered...Read More >