IDL Demo Applications and Examples

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IDL Demo Applications and Examples

The IDL Demo Applications illustrate some of the many ways IDL can help visualize data. The IDL Demo Applications are a series of programs written in the IDL language that demonstrate different aspects of IDL. To Start the Demo Applications, complete the following steps:

For Windows, by clicking the Windows Start button and selecting Start Programs IDL 6.4 IDL Demo.

For UNIX and Mac OS X, enter the following at the UNIX prompt:

idldemo

Note
If you have already started IDL, you can simply type in DEMO at the IDL prompt.

IDL> DEMO

Another way to access the IDL Demo System is to use the "Run Demo" toolbar button on the IDLDE toolbar.

IDL also comes with many built-in examples such as source code and example data files. These can be found in the IDL_DIR/examples where IDL_DIR is the directory in which you have installed IDL.

IDL Online Help (March 06, 2007)