Kill-ability of a cursor

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Wed, 12/11/2013 - 10:33 am

I would like to set and reset the Nokill flag of a cursor, but I run into an issue. (Igor 6.34)

According to the manual, the flag /N=Nokill with Nokill either 1 or 0 should set the behaviour. However, using /N=1 or /N=0 throws a syntax error. Actually, /N is allowed, which sets the cursor to Not-killable, albeit irreversibly. This is code that throws such an error in my experiments:
make wtest=x;display wtest
cursor /N=1 A wtest 64
Indeed. That is a bug, either in the documentation or in Igor. The code for that flag simply wasn't written to take an argument.

I have fixed it to take the documented argument. I probably can't get it committed today, so it may be a couple days before you can download a fixed version.

John Weeks
WaveMetrics, Inc.
support@wavemetrics.com

December 11, 2013 at 04:35 pm - Permalink

Could it be that this error still persists in the latest Mac version or at least in the latest Japanese version (6.34J) for Mac?
I wrote a procedure which was working fine on windows with this flag but on Mac the file won't compile exactly at this flag.

May 8, 2014 at 02:25 am - Permalink

It appears that the bug was fixed just after the current IgorJ Mac version, 6.34J, was built.

I don't know when we will release the next version.

If this is a show stopper for you send an email to WaveMetrics support and I will send you a later build.

May 8, 2014 at 08:41 am - Permalink