Within these pages you can find the tools and resources we use when creating IDL (Interactive Data Language) Applications. Everything you find here is free to use for your own purposes. Just don't resell it please.

Note that all material is provided as is, with no guarantees. It's not very likely that your computer will explode if you use any of the IDL code found here, but we are not going to guarantee that!

Code Standard

This is the standard we use when creating IDL code. It also contains some tips and tricks about IDL that we have found out during the years. Reading this would also give a better insight in why some of our IDL code looks the way it does.

Syntax Highlighting

This file gives you IDL syntax highlighting in UltraEdit. To incorporate it you must add the text to the WORDFILE.TXT file which is present in the directory where you installed UltraEdit. Make sure that the language number does not collide with another language. (It is set to 9 in our file. Should work fine with the standard UltraEdit install.)