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ROUTINE_NAMES [message #979]

Mon, 19 April 1993 00:11

landsman
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Registered: August 1991

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I notice that the IDL V3.0 User library procedures PWIDGET, GLOBEROT, and
WORLDROT call an intrinsic IDL function called ROUTINE_NAMES. I cannot
find any online or printed documentation for ROUTINE_NAMES.
I suppose that one should not depend on this routine until RSI makes it
official by documenting it, but I am intrigued by what ROUTINE_NAMES does.
Here's what I've been able to find out so far:

IDL> print, ROUTINE_NAMES()

prints the names of all compiled IDL procedures

IDL> print, ROUTINE_NAMES(/LEVEL)

appears to print 1 if the user at the main level, 2 if inside a called
procedure, etc.

In PWIDGET there is call that is something like this

IDL> print,ROUTINE_NAMES('X',FETCH=2)

and I haven't figure out what it does, or how to make an example work outside
of PWIDGET. It appears to grab a variable called X from another procedure
-- perhaps this is a fancy alternative for common blocks? Maybe somebody
out there is a better hacker than I am, and can figure this out.

--Wayne Landsman landsman@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov

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