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IDL’s new development environment –
the IDL Workbench – is based on the Eclipse development platform. Eclipse gives IDL
users the advantages of a modern, full-featured truly cross-platform development
environment that includes the tools that users of today’s development environments
have come to appreciate and expect including:
- A Cross Platform Native User Interface that gives users the same features and workflow
on all platforms and platform-native interface controls and conventions.
- A Project based organizational scheme that organizes source code, images and files in
known directories for efficient storage and searching.
- Code Editing Tools such as syntax highlighting, drag-and-drop editing, hover help that
provides syntax information about routines, and content assist to help you complete
routine names.
- Code Debugging that helps you quickly identify variables, breakpoints and problems with
your code.
- User Assistance Features including cheat sheets that automatically execute IDL code
examples, and online help tutorials with more extensive examples.
- A Plugin Architecture that allows easy integration of other components written for IDL
and the IDL Workbench or Eclipse.
- Support for Internationalization that allows IDL Workbench textual elements and labels
to be localized in eleven Asian and European languages.
- The IDL Welcome Screen gives you access to live RSS feeds for continual access to new
and improved IDL functionality, plugins and code contribution items.
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