Documentation Enhancements

What's New in IDL 6.4: New Features in IDL 6.4

Documentation Enhancements

In addition to documentation for new and enhanced IDL features, the following enhancements to the IDL documentation set are included in the 6.4 release:

IDL Analyst Manual

Manual Reorganization

IDL Analyst Manual

IDL Analyst combines the power of IDL with the IMSL C Numerical Library provided by Visual Numerics, Inc. The addition of the IMSL library gives IDL users access to an extensive and powerful set of mathematical and statistical analysis routines via the standard IDL programmer's interface.

IDL Analyst was first released after the IDL 6.3 release; as a result, users who purchased that release received only the Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the new IDL Analyst Reference Guide. Although IDL Analyst is a separately licensed module, documentation is now included as part of the IDL help system.

The IDL Analyst Reference Guide appears in the Guides for Add-on Products section of the IDL help system, and in the Adobe Acrobat PDF documentation set.

Manual Reorganization

In an effort to better delineate topics in the IDL help system, we have made the following changes to the IDL documentation set:

The manual titled Building IDL Applications has been renamed Application Programming.

The manual titled iTool Developer's Guide has been renamed iTool Programming.

Material on user interface programming using IDL widgets that previously appeared in Building IDL Applications and elsewhere is now contained in User Interface Programming.

All three manuals are included in the Programmer's Guides section of the IDL help system, and in the Adobe Acrobat PDF documentation set.

IDL Online Help (March 06, 2007)