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Re: IDL workbench & windows [message #58422]

Fri, 01 February 2008 09:57

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

Senior Member

elwood writes:

> Does anyone know what the system variable is that holds the value of
> the project directory
> in which you are currently working?

Why don't you create your own variable. Here is an IDL
program that is handy:

PRO PWD
CD, CURRENT=thisDir
Print, thisDir
END

Used like this to tell you what directory is the current
directory:

IDL> pwd
G:\IDL\Coyote

You could probably turn this into a function easy enough. :-)

If you want to write programs that can find data files
and other files based on the location of the IDL source
code, use PROGRAMROOTDIR:

http://www.dfanning.com/programs/programrootdir.pro

Use it like this inside of a program named DOIT, to locate
a data file in the same directory as doit.pro:

datafile = Filepath(ROOTDIR=ProgramRootDir(), 'doit_data.dat')

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: David Fanning on Fri, 01 February 2008 09:57
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: elwood on Fri, 01 February 2008 08:52
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: Steve[5] on Fri, 01 February 2008 01:01
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: David Fanning on Thu, 31 January 2008 19:33
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: David Fanning on Thu, 31 January 2008 19:21
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: elwood on Thu, 31 January 2008 17:04
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: elwood on Thu, 31 January 2008 16:50
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: R.Bauer on Fri, 08 February 2008 01:43
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: David Fanning on Fri, 08 February 2008 05:59
		Re: IDL workbench & windows By: elwood on Mon, 04 February 2008 14:51

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