aXis2000 - IDL Virtual Machine version

INSTRUCTIONS FOR INSTALLING THE
IDL6.1 VIRTUAL MACHINE VERSION OF aXis2000

Last changed: 03 August 2009

1. Download the most recent IDL virtual machine package (from ITT Visual Information) (if you do not have it already installed on your computer)

2. Download the aXis2000.sav file to c:\aXis2000
(this is equivalent to the latest aXis2000 version)

3. Download aXis2000(a WinZIP file with source code)

4. Extract (unzip) aXis2000.zip to c:\aXis2000 (all code files are needed)
(Make sure 'Use folder names' is turned on when you unzip)

Notes: If you use a folder other than c:\aXis2000 there may be problems running the code. Do NOT use folder names with blanks in the name

for Windows machines

5. make a desktop icon for IDL Virtual Machine

6. Change the properties of that Desktop icon to the following:
      target: "CODE-SOURCE" -vm= c:\axis2000\axis2000.sav     where     "CODE-SOURCE" = "C:\Program Files\ITT\IDL71\bin\bin.x86\idlrt.exe"
      start in: C:\axis2000
      where "C:\Program Files\ITT\IDL71\bin\bin.x86\idlrt.exe" is the path to the IDL virtual machine program (idlrt.exe)
                  C:\aXis2000 is the name of the folder which contains the aXis2000.sav and the aXis2000 code files

CAUTION: a number of functions that work fine in the full version of IDL, do not work in the IDL Virtual machine execution of the compiled code (aXis2000.sav). There is a file called SAV-run-problems.txt in axis2000 folder which lists known problems. Let me know if you find others.