config_preview

The HEALPix IDL visualisation routines can generate PostScript, GIF or PNG files for printing or insertion in an electronic document. They offer the possibility to automatically ``preview'' those files as soon as they are created, so that the user does not need to start the viewing process in a different window. To do this, an external viewing code (like Ghostview, xv, netscape, ...) has to be called by IDL. As the choice of viewing codes varies from platform to platform, the config_preview script is designed to choose the codes to be used. It will create or update the src/idl/visu/idl_default_previewer.pro which is read by IDL.

Eric Hivon 2005-08-31