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Re: Where is the right place to define new structs? [message #26506 is a reply to message #26499]

Wed, 05 September 2001 03:04

R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998

Senior Member

>
> IDL searches routines along its search path but it looks first
> in the path were idl is in.
>
> cd,current=current
> print,current
>
> You can define this path by idlde preferences path or startup.
>
> We prefer the startup method.
> Because it is necessary if you have a library and many users
> all of them should have the same order of pathes.
>
> You can define a function like
>
> function my_func
>
> struct={a:1}
>
> return,struct
> end
>
> If this is saved in the search path it is loaded
>
> by x=my_funct()
>
> If you like named structure you can define them in the startup file
> too.
>
> Then you only have to call them by x={name of structure}
>
> regards
>
> Reimar
>
> --

The online help says:

"
Select Startup File

Click this button to specify the name of an IDL batch file to be
executed automatically each time IDL is run. The startup file is
displayed below.

Note - Startup files are executed one statement at a time. It is not
possible to define program modules, (procedures, functions, or
main-level programs) in the startup file.

"

We are using one startup file for all of our platforms.

Reimar

> Reimar Bauer
>
> Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
> Forschungszentrum Juelich
> email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
> http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/
> ============================================================ ======
> a IDL library at ForschungsZentrum Juelich
> http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro.h tml
>
> http://www.fz-juelich.de/zb/text/publikation/juel3786.html
> ============================================================ ======
>
> read something about linux / windows
> http://www.suse.de/de/news/hotnews/MS.html

--
Reimar Bauer

Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/
============================================================ ======
a IDL library at ForschungsZentrum Juelich
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro.h tml

http://www.fz-juelich.de/zb/text/publikation/juel3786.html
============================================================ ======

read something about linux / windows
http://www.suse.de/de/news/hotnews/MS.html

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		Re: Where is the right place to define new structs? By: Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1] on Wed, 05 September 2001 11:48
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