The ESO Recipe Flexible Execution Workbench
Instructions for IDL usage in ESO Reflex
The IDL has been a while basic tool for astronomers for scripting and reducing data and it has good capabilities for visualizing and manipulating FITS data. We like to offer a possibility to use existing IDL code in ESO Reflex and with small modifications it is possible to convert existing IDL pro files in ESO Reflex compatible format to get all the workflow processor features without breaking the existing code functionality. This page includes instructions and examples with detailed description of the IDL usage in ESO Reflex.
IDL interface of Reflex
The reflexout.pro IDL module (download here) is the IDL interface of Reflex. It is located under reflex/reflex-current/scripts/idl.
IDL script editing window
In the figure below is the workflow idltest1.xml located under reflex/reflex-current/examples.
Click on the IDL processor IDL_testcase, and the window below will open.
Editing the script is done exactly in the same way as with Python, see here.