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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| About IDL | |
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| Running IDL | |
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| Online Help | |
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| Outline of the Chapters | |
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| Fundamentals of IDL Syntax | |
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| Interactive and Compiled Modes | |
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| Variables | |
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| Introduction to Arrays | |
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| Array Indexing | |
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| Expressions and Arithmetic Operators | |
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| Relational and Boolean Operators | |
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| Structures | |
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| Pointers | |
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| Array Properties | |
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| Locating Values within an Array | |
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| Array Reordering | |
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| Array Resizing | |
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| Writing IDL Programs | |
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| Defining and Compiling Programs | |
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| Control Statements | |
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| Parameters and Keywords | |
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| Checking Parameters and Keywords | |
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| Scripts, Include Files, and Journaling | |
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| Global Variables | |
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| Error Handling | |
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| Efficient Programming | |
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| Input and Output | |
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| Standard Input and Output | |
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| Working with Files | |
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| Reading and Writing Formatted (ASCII) Files | |
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| Reading and Writing Unformatted (Binary) Files | |
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| Scientific and Specialized Data Formats | |
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| Reading and Writing netCDF Files | |
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| Reading and Writing HDF Files | |
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| Direct Graphics | |
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| Graphics Devices | |
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| Display Modes | |
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| Graphics Windows | |
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| Working with Colors | |
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| Display Mode Troubleshooting | |
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| Plotting Data | |
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| Plotting Overview | |
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| Plot Positioning | |
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| Plot Customization | |
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| Plot Colors | |
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| Titles, Labels, and Symbols | |
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| Error Bar, Histogram, and Bar Plots | |
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| Contour Plots | |
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| Mesh and Shaded Surface Plots | |
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| Mapping | |
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| Displaying Images | |
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| Image Fundamentals | |
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| Image Display Routines | |
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| Customizing Image Scaling | |
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| Sizing the Image to Fit the Display | |
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| Displaying TrueColor Images | |
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| Displaying Images on the PostScript and Printer Devices | |
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| An Image Display Procedure | |
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| Creating Graphical Output | |
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| Bitmap and Vector Output | |
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| Creating Bitmap Output Files | |
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| Creating PostScript Output | |
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| Creating Printer Output | |
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| Graphical User Interfaces | |
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| Introduction to GUI Programming | |
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| Creating Widgets | |
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| Working with Existing Widgets | |
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| Events and Event Handling | |
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| A GUI Application | |
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| IDL on the Internet | |
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| Resources by the Author | |
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| RSI Information | |
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| Newsgroup | |
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| Libraries | |
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| Searchable Library Database | |
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| Editors | |
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| PostScript Viewers | |
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| People | |
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| Mathematical Routines | |
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| Widget Event Structures | |
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| Widget Properties | |
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| Graphics Device Properties | |
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| Index | |