IDL: Interactive Data Language¶
IDL is a commercial software for scientific data visualization. The GNU Data Language GDL is an open-source alternative.
Installation¶
The IDL software is available in the IT Shop.
Troubleshooting¶
Failure to acquire window rendering context / Unable to acquire device context¶
If IDL crashes with this error message when drawing using certain image routines, you may try to disable hardware rendering:
IDL> PREF_SET, 'IDL_GR_X_RENDERER', 1, /COMMIT