| Cool Help! [message #31403] |
Mon, 08 July 2002 07:53  |
btupper
Messages: 55
Registered: January 2002
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Hello,
You may recall a while back that I had a thorn under my saddle
regarding the IDL online help (in particular for IDL 5.5 which was
padded on as a PDF.) Some folk passed along ideas about what might
be nice for future online help system, and I faithfully sent those
ideas along to RSI. I hope I sent them to the right place but I have
no idea since I received no response.
In the meantime, Andrew Cool had been cooking up a method for
extracting the online help text (including that for IDL 5.5) via that
neato IDL 5.5 HTML help files that David is hosting at his website. I
still don't know who crafted that.
We have now wrapped Andew's query routine with a GUI wrapper. The GUI
provides an alphabetical index, a routine list, a 'See Also' list, and
the help text for the queried routine. The GUI is object based but
the object is stored in a system variable for easy access.
You can retrieve the three necessary files from...
www.tidewater.net/~pemaquid/coolhelp.zip
Simply unzip all three files into your !PATH and then
IDL> ch
or
IDL> ch, 'uniq' ;or whatever routine you would like to see
You might need to reset your session before it will work and you
*WILL* need to have
(1) Martin Schultz's MGS_BASEOBJECT
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/~schultz.martin/idl/index.html
and
(2) David Fanning's COYOTE_PROGRAMS.ZIP
http://www.dfanning.com/documents/programs/coyoteprograms.zi p
This package has been tested on WIN98 and Win2000. Please direct
comments and suggestions to Andrew at andrew.cool@dsto.defence.gov.au
or to me at pemaquidriver@tidewater.net.
Regards,
Ben
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