| Re: User HELP files from IDL 3.6.1 to 4.0 [message #5032] |
Sat, 09 September 1995 00:00 |
rivers
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In article <42pgol$15u@rdsunx.crd.ge.com>, rigby@crd.ge.com (Wayne Rigby) writes:
> In article 8le@upsn2.u-psud.fr, Richard Gispert <gispert@ias.fr> () writes:
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>> With IDL 3.6.1 it was possible to add
>> help files for our routines to help files distributed by IDL.
>> It was very convenient because developpers had just to write
>> a header beginning by ;+ and ending by ;- in each routine.
>> Then by using MK_LIBRARY_HELP it was very easy to prepare such .hlp
>> files.
>> With IDL 4.0 we got hyperhelp which is very beautiful and convenient
>> BUT we lost the previous facility for personal help files.
>> Who has the solution ?
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IDL 4.0.1 has MK_HTML_HELP which reads the standard documentation headers and
builds an HTML help file which you can view with Mosaic, Netscape, Lynx, etc. I
find this very nice.
I REALLY wish RSI would put the main IDL help in HTML format as well, then we
could all read it from any platform. That includes text based terminals, using
Lynx. Right now I can't get help on any built-in IDL stuff when I work from
home on a VT/Tektronix emulator.
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| Re: User HELP files from IDL 3.6.1 to 4.0 [message #5038 is a reply to message #5032] |
Fri, 08 September 1995 00:00  |
djackson
Messages: 31
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In article <42mb37$8le@upsn2.u-psud.fr>
Richard Gispert <gispert@ias.fr> writes:
> With IDL 4.0 we got hyperhelp which is very beautiful and convenient
> BUT we lost the previous facility for personal help files.
> Who has the solution ?
If you still have the help files in the same place, calling WIDGET_OLH
will bring up the help as before. IDL 4.0.1 provides a way to make
HTML files, much as MK_LIBRARY_HELP made .hlp files, which can be
browsed with an HTML browser, such as Netscape.
Hope this helps,
-Dick
Dick Jackson djackson@ibd.nrc.ca Institute for Biodiagnostics
Opinions are mine alone. National Research Council Canada, Winnipeg
"And I told him my dream was to live for all time
In some perfect refrain, like the man who wrote 'Danny Boy'."
- Joe Jackson, from the album _Night_Music_, 1994.
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| Re: User HELP files from IDL 3.6.1 to 4.0 [message #5045 is a reply to message #5038] |
Fri, 08 September 1995 00:00 |
gurman
Messages: 82
Registered: August 1992
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In article <42pgol$15u@rdsunx.crd.ge.com>, rigby@crd.ge.com wrote:
> In article 8le@upsn2.u-psud.fr, Richard Gispert <gispert@ias.fr> () writes:
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>> With IDL 3.6.1 it was possible to add
>> help files for our routines to help files distributed by IDL.
>> It was very convenient because developpers had just to write
>> a header beginning by ;+ and ending by ;- in each routine.
>> Then by using MK_LIBRARY_HELP it was very easy to prepare such .hlp
>> files.
>> With IDL 4.0 we got hyperhelp which is very beautiful and convenient
>> BUT we lost the previous facility for personal help files.
>> Who has the solution ?
>>
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> This was posted a while back. Hopefully RSI will see the light
> and officially restore this capability.
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> From mcghee@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu (Colleen McGhee)
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
> Subject: Re: Tapping into IDL help??
> Date: 4 Jun 1995 22:45:23 GMT
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> Here is a response from RSI to one user about the lack of help:
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> A solution does exist. IDL 4.0 still includes MK_LIBRARY_HELP
> (undocumented.) It also still includes the old online help viewer,
> WIDGET_OLH (also undocumented.) If the ".help" files created with
> MK_LIBRARY_HELP are in the help path (in the "help" subdirectory,
> for example) then the call "widget_olh" will display them.
> We're looking into better ways for the user to create their
> own help files.
Salut -
MK_HTML_HELP is now "officially" in the 4.0.1 update version of IDL
and can be used to create help documents in the new format, and
ONLINE_HELP, topic can be used to call the help application.
Hope this helps,
Joe Gurman
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J.B. Gurman / Solar Physics Branch / NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center / Greenbelt MD 20771 USA / gurman@uvsp.gsfc.nasa.gov
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| Re: User HELP files from IDL 3.6.1 to 4.0 [message #5046 is a reply to message #5038] |
Fri, 08 September 1995 00:00 |
rigby
Messages: 16
Registered: September 1995
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In article 8le@upsn2.u-psud.fr, Richard Gispert <gispert@ias.fr> () writes:
> With IDL 3.6.1 it was possible to add
> help files for our routines to help files distributed by IDL.
> It was very convenient because developpers had just to write
> a header beginning by ;+ and ending by ;- in each routine.
> Then by using MK_LIBRARY_HELP it was very easy to prepare such .hlp
> files.
> With IDL 4.0 we got hyperhelp which is very beautiful and convenient
> BUT we lost the previous facility for personal help files.
> Who has the solution ?
>
This was posted a while back. Hopefully RSI will see the light
and officially restore this capability.
From mcghee@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu (Colleen McGhee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
Subject: Re: Tapping into IDL help??
Date: 4 Jun 1995 22:45:23 GMT
Here is a response from RSI to one user about the lack of help:
A solution does exist. IDL 4.0 still includes MK_LIBRARY_HELP
(undocumented.) It also still includes the old online help viewer,
WIDGET_OLH (also undocumented.) If the ".help" files created with
MK_LIBRARY_HELP are in the help path (in the "help" subdirectory,
for example) then the call "widget_olh" will display them.
We're looking into better ways for the user to create their
own help files.
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