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Below you can find all IDL product documentation. These documents can also be found in the IDL online help system, which is accessible within IDL via the IDL Workbench Help menu or by entering ' ? ' at the IDL prompt.

In addition, IDL documentation is provided in Adobe Acrobat PDF format in the info directory of your IDL installation DVD.

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Installation and Licensing
Describes how to install and license IDL on a Windows, Macintosh, or UNIX platform.

IDL 7.1 Release Notes

What’s New in IDL7.1
Describes the new features added in IDL 7.1.

User's Guides

Getting Started
Describes how to get started using IDL for data analysis and visualizations.

Using IDL
Describes how to use IDL to do data analysis and create visualizations.

Image Processing in IDL
Introduces you to the full image processing power of IDL, describing how to display, manipulate, and extract information from images.

iTool User’s Guide
Describes how to use the IDL Intelligent Tools.

Programmer's Guides

Application Programming
Describes how to use the IDL language to write IDL programs, including sections on the structure of the IDL language and programming techniques.

IDL Connectivity Bridges
Describes how to use IDL’s import and export bridges, which allow you to use Java and COM objects within IDL and export IDL objects as Java or COM objects for use outside IDL.

External Development Guide
Describes how to use IDL to develop applications that interact with programs written in other programming languages.

Object Programming
Describes how to write object-oriented programs in IDL, and includes discussion of IDL’s object graphics system.

iTool Developer’s Guide
Describes how to create new iTools using the IDL Intelligent Tools component framework.

User Interface Programming
Describes how to create graphical user interfaces using IDL’s widget toolkit.

Reference Guides

IDL Quick Reference
Provides quick access to API information for IDL procedures and functions (categorized functionally and alphabetically), objects, executive commands, and statements.

IDL Workbench Quick Reference Guide
The IDL Workbench is IDL’s graphical user interface and integrated development environment. The IDL Workbench is based on the Eclipse framework; if you are already familiar with Eclipse, the appearance and behavior of the IDL Workbench will feel familiar. This quick reference card will help you get started using the workbench.

IDL Reference Guide
Describes in detail all of IDL’s procedures, functions, objects, statements, commands, system variables, and operators.

Scientific Data Formats
Describes IDL’s support for scientific data formats including the Common Data Format (CDF), Hierarchical Data Formats (HDF, HDF5, and HDF-EOS), and Network Common Data Format (NetCDF).

Obsolete IDL Features
Describes features that have become obsolete due to enhancements to the IDL language.

Guides for Add-On Products

IDL Advanced Math and Statistics Reference Guide
Describes how to use the IDL Advanced Math and Statistics package to gain access to the IMSL numerical libraries for mathematics and statistics.

IDL DataMiner Guide
Describes how to access external databases in IDL using the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface.

IDL Wavelet Toolkit User’s Guide
Describes how to use the IDL Wavelet Toolkit for wavelet analysis of multi-dimensional data.

* Please note that documents on this page contain hypertext links to other manuals from the complete IDL documentation set. Clicking a link that attempts to open documents not on your local system you will result in a "File not found" error. No full text search index is provided with the files available on the ITT web site. If you need the full text search feature, request an IDL CD-ROM and use the PDF files on that disk or use the IDL online help system.

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