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Re: Calling Help Files [message #10774 is a reply to message #10769]

Fri, 16 January 1998 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Kerstin Voigt (voigt@dlr.de) writes:

> does anybody know, how I can call a self created help file from within IDL
> 5.0?
> They have the standard Microsoft *.hlp-format (PC environment).

To create an "authentic" IDL help file requires that you have
a particular help file compiler, I believe. But since I always
have a WWW browser open anyway, I've found it convenient
to use HTML help for my IDL procedures. I simply use the
template.pro file to create a template for my programs.
(It uses the ";+" and ";-" convention to delineate a section
of code used for comments.)

Then I just use the MK_HTML_HELP routine from the IDL library
to construct an HTML file from my IDL procedures and functions.
It is all done in one step. This, for example, is what I use
to build the help files for the program files on my web page.

Cheers,

David

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