After this, more basic programming topics are covered in depth. It’s an advanced programming technique but is dealt with early by the author and it kind of works.
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The book has actually convinced me that module-static is a good thing, especially since my Igor code is now deployed around the lab and naming conflicts could easily become a problem. This means naming conflicts are minimised. A new experiment is started – one user-written ipf is opened – and the code is run. Although in my defence, name conflicts are generally not a problem for the way I work because I favour a reproducible approach.
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As the Igor Manual says “this gets tedious after a while” and that’s true. I have dealt with name conflicts by using static functions which are called from the top of the stack, and the top has a unique name (arguably this is the same as module-static, but not identical). Module-static works well because it eliminates naming conflicts. All of my Igor programming has been done in the global pragma and I have avoided this more C-like way of encapsulating programs that I’ve written so far. The author favours module-static programming. What I was surprised about was the first thing mentioned in the book was new to me. I knew I would learn something from the book because there’s always alternative ways to do stuff in Igor: things that you didn’t know about or little tricks to do stuff faster. It’s a great little book and is recommended for those who want to dig further after doing the Getting Started exercises. So it’s a really useful intermediate programming guide. The book stops short of any specialised applications. Schmid deals with this by covering basic programming and core-intermediate topics such as dialogs, loops, string magic etc.
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What makes Igor Pro so fantastic is the way that you can use it for so many different things: image processing, statistics, graphing, curve fitting, instrument control and so on. Part of the challenge of writing a book on Igor Programming is deciding what to cover. So I was intrigued whether Martin Schmid’s book would fill the gap between Getting Started and more advanced guides.
The Igor Manual itself is excellent but it’s many, many pages long and is only meant to be consulted. There are a few other guides on the web ( Payam’s guide, Thomas Braun’s coding conventions, quantixed’s own translator), but other resources are pretty scarce. There’s a booklet from WaveMetrics (the company that sells Igor Pro) called Getting Started – which is really good.
Learning Igor – like most IDEs or programming languages – is tough going. I’m a competent Igor programmer but I was hoping that this book would be useful for lab members that want to learn.
It has been a long time since I wrote a book review.Ī few months ago I read on IgorExchange that Martin Schmid had written a book about programming Igor.
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