On May 6, 4:38=A0pm, "Kenneth P. Bowman" <k-bow...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <C445F023.199%j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> =A0Jonathan Joseph <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > I just got a new mac (macbook pro running leopard 10.5.2) and
installed =
IDL
> > 7.0. =A0Up til now, I've worked on sun solaris and windows pc, and
have =
not
> > upgraded to 7.0 yet on those machines.
>
> > Anyway, when I start IDL and open a graphics window (IDL> window) or
run=
any
> > application that creates a graphics window, I get the following error
> > message:
>
> > % Program caused arithmetic error: Floating underflow
>
> > But after that everything seems to work properly. =A0This message only
a=
ppears
> > once, the first time a window is created and never again during the
IDL
> > session - so it's not really too obtrusive. =A0Though so far I've only
d=
one
> > some cursory tests on this installation to make sure things work.
>
> > I Just wanted to mention it in case something really isn't working
that'=
s
> > going to come back and bite me later.
>
> > Anyone else seen this problem?
>
> > Thanks.
>
> > -Jonathan
>
> I think this may be due to X-Windows bugs. =A0(Apple made major changes
> to the X distribution with 10.5). =A0I reported this to ITTVIS some time
> back. =A0Not sure what the outcome was.
Also, I've been trying to keep up-to-date with XQuartz:
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki
This helps a lot from the original Leopard release, but is becoming
less important as many of the X11 changes have been rolled into
10.5.2.
Mike
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www.michaelgalloy.com
Tech-X Corporation
Software Developer II
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