Gridview download

STEP 1: Make sure IDL or the IDL Virtual Machine software is installed on your computer

STEP 2: Download all the following colortable "*.col" files.

Place all downloaded files into a single "gridview" directory.

Download by right clicking with "Save link as" (option or shift + mouse button on a Mac) and make that sure the file extensions do NOT get renamed to ".txt".

README

topo5c.col

topomola.col

shade_1.col

grays3d.col

mag.col

magnetization.col

STEP 3: Download at least one Grid:

Currently released grids

STEP 4: Download one appropriate pre-compiled gridview application file that matches your version of IDL

Make sure it saves as "gridview.sav"

gridview.sav for IDL Virtual Machine version 7.0

gridview.sav for IDL Virtual Machine version 6.4

gridview.sav for IDL Virtual Machine version 6.3

gridview.sav for IDL Virtual Machine version 6.2

gridview.sav for IDL Virtual Machine version 6.1

gridview.sav for IDL Virtual Machine version 6.0

The following are not recent versions of Gridview:

gridview.sav for IDL version 5.6

gridview.sav for IDL version 5.5

gridview.sav for IDL version 5.4

gridview.sav for IDL version 5.3

STEP 5: You are now ready to run gridview

Windows

Open the gridview folder and double click "gridview.sav"

OS X

The first thing you need to check is that you have X11 installed. It is not installed by default in the OS X installation. Look in Applications-Utilities for X11. Click on X11 if it is there to fire it up. If X11 is not there and you are running the latest OS X software (10.3), I think you can install it from the third CD. If you are running an older version (pre 10.3) you may need to install an X11 clone called "oroboro".

Once this is done you need to run the IDL setup script which sets search paths and make IDL happy. Open a terminal window and type "echo $SHELL". If the response is /bin/bash the do the following:

Click on the TextEdit tool in Applications and create a new document with the following line:
. /Applications/idl_6.0/bin/idl_setup.bash

Save this file as ".profile" in you home directory. This assumes you installed IDL in the default location /Applications/idl_6.0 . If it is somewhere else make the needed changes to point to the actual location.

Log off and log back on to make sure the changes take effect.

Fire up X11

open a terminal window

cd to your gridview directory

type: idl -vm gridview

select gridview.sav

Linux / UNIX

cd to your gridview directory

type: idl -vm

select gridview.sav

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Last modified on May 3, 2006