| Re: Webmaker for IDL available [message #19211 is a reply to message #19204] |
Fri, 03 March 2000 00:00   |
Mirko Vukovic
Messages: 124
Registered: January 1996
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In article <38BFBECD.E08B3822@dkrz.de>,
Martin Schultz <martin.schultz@dkrz.de> wrote:
> Dear IDLers,
>
> I am happy to announce a new tool for automatic generation of
> web pages with IDL programs, i.e. IDL library browser pages.
> Check out
>
> http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/~schultz.martin/idl/webmaker/index. html
>
> if you want to see sample pages generated by webmaker 1.0, read the
> documentation, or purchase a license. Since this is a highly
> specialized (yet very flexible) tool, I am not going to give it
> away for free. On the other hand, the shareware concept doesn't
> seem to gripe in this community, so I decided for a different
approach:
> I let you see the result (the sample pages) and the
> documentation, but if you want to use the program, you must contact me
> and purchase a copy (for only US$20 or Euro 20). You will then
> get full access to all source code, and I offer relatively generous
> support. This includes free upgrades (at least until a new major
release
> is produced), help in getting it to run or changing the appearance of
> the web pages you generate with webmaker.
>
> As always with commercial software, here a few highlights that
shall
> wake your appetite:
>
> Webmaker
> * provides a setup tool and allows easy configuration via one
> include file
> * scans one or several program libraries (directories) with IDL
> routines
> * finds duplicate routine names
> * automatically extracts the program category and description from
> the program header
> * uses an alias mechanism to organize categories
> * generates all web pages through HTML template files, i.e. no
> change in the webmaker IDL code is required if you want to change
> the appearance of your web pages.
> * produces an extensive log file which will help you in case of
> errors
> * runs on Windows and Unix (Linux) machines
>
> See the sample pages at:
> http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/~schultz.martin/idl/webmaker/index. html
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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Impressive.
I am not placing an order, but have a suggestion. And I hate making
what may sound as a negative comment to the author after all the hard
work, because I am not trying to be negative.
So here is the comment.
Webmaker may be too generic a name. How about LibraryDocHTMLBuilder
or something like it?
Webmaker name should be reserved for a more general purpose routine that
accepts higher level constructs (title, index, sectiontitle, etc), and
converts them to HTML.
Finally, did you consider actually using Perl for this kind of a job
(I've never done anything in Perl). I can see one reason why not
to do it in Perl, and that is if you know IDL and don't know Perl (Valid
in my opinion).
Mirko
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