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Re: library and online help [message #38885 is a reply to message #38883]

Wed, 07 April 2004 08:02

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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Steve wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> how can I add and IDL library (taken somewhere from the web) to the
> standard path of my IDL distribution, so that each time I call a
> procedure/function that is in the library, IDL automatically find it?
> Do I have to put such library in some directory? where? (I use linux).
>
> Just a drop. I have got the new IDL version, but the "old" online help
> doesn't work anymore :-( Is it right???
> Only that nasty and NON user-friendly acrobat manual ...
>
> Cheers,
> S.

The simplest way I believe is to use a startup file.

The startup file for our library looks like this one
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl .all

this is an idl script with the syntax restrictions of a journal.

This example is platform independent for the settings for windows, aix
and linux. A startup file sets the path in a defined way for several
users. It prevents for path order changes by differnt users which could
give different hard to find problems.

A startup file is accesed from idl by setting the env variable
IDL_STARTUP to the file where it is.

for linux a simple one could be

!path=!path+':pathToSomewhere:'

expand_path() could be used to expand into sub directories. if they have
the '+' sign in front.

!path=!path+':+pathToSomewhere:'

!path=expand_path(!path)

regards

Reimar

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Forschungszentrum Juelich
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		Re: library and online help By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 07 April 2004 12:45
		Re: library and online help By: Steve.Morris on Wed, 07 April 2004 12:16
		Re: library and online help By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 07 April 2004 09:10
		Re: library and online help By: R.Bauer on Wed, 07 April 2004 08:59
		Re: library and online help By: James Kuyper on Wed, 07 April 2004 08:28
		Re: library and online help By: Michael Wallace on Wed, 07 April 2004 08:29
		Re: library and online help By: kklare on Tue, 20 April 2004 19:16
		Re: library and online help By: R.Bauer on Wed, 07 April 2004 08:02
		Re: library and online help By: savoie on Wed, 07 April 2004 07:55
		Re: library and online help By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 07 April 2004 07:58

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