Exporting Data to the IDL Session

You can export data from an iTool into one or more variables using the IDL Data Export Wizard.

It is important to know that the data you modify in an iTool is not changed in the IDL main scope. Any data variables remain in IDL unchanged, because the iTools Data Manager uses a copy of the data, not the data itself. So, if you want to save the changes you make to data in an iTool, you can Export the data to IDL for further analysis.

To export data to an IDL variable:

  1. From an iTool window, select File → Export Data to IDL.
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    2. The Export to IDL Variables dialog appears.
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  2. All the variables are selected by default. Click in the corresponding check boxes to change the selections.
  3. Click Export when complete.
  4. The variables from the iTool are exported to the IDL session and appear in the Variables view of the IDL Workbench, as shown below:
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Exporting via the Context Menu

An alternate way to export a variable to IDL is to select the visualization within the iTool and right-click to choose Export to Image or Export to IDL.