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Re: library and online help [message #38887 is a reply to message #38886]

Wed, 07 April 2004 07:58

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Registered: April 2002

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Steve wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> how can I add and IDL library (taken somewhere from the web) to the
> standard path of my IDL distribution, so that each time I call a
> procedure/function that is in the library, IDL automatically find it?
> Do I have to put such library in some directory? where? (I use linux).

Assuming you're on a unix/linux box, you need to add some definition to your IDL_PATH
environment var:

export IDL_PATH=${IDL_PATH}:+\${HOME}/idl

is what I do. Under my ${HOME}/idl directory I have a user_contrib directory containing
all manner of third party libraries. (the "+" above means to search all the subdirectories
too)

> Just a drop. I have got the new IDL version, but the "old" online help
> doesn't work anymore :-( Is it right???
> Only that nasty and NON user-friendly acrobat manual ...

If you're on a linux box, you're SOL I'm afraid. There is no Search plugin available for
acroread on linux (that I have been able to find - if I'm wrong, please let me know). Thus
the online help is next to useless unless you know in advance where everything is. My
solution has been to keep a session from an older version (5.5) of IDL (on a machine
across the country) on my desktop so I have access to the old but efficacious on-line
help. It does mean I have zero access to information about all the new stuff in IDL.

To be fair to the RSI folks, a reply I got from RSI (in response to either my rant about
it here or my support request) stated that the old online help system (from an outside
vendor) was effectively unmaintainable so something needed to be done. I just wish the
"something" was something else. :o)

paulv

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		Re: library and online help By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 07 April 2004 12:45
		Re: library and online help By: Steve.Morris on Wed, 07 April 2004 12:16
		Re: library and online help By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 07 April 2004 09:10
		Re: library and online help By: R.Bauer on Wed, 07 April 2004 08:59
		Re: library and online help By: James Kuyper on Wed, 07 April 2004 08:28
		Re: library and online help By: Michael Wallace on Wed, 07 April 2004 08:29
		Re: library and online help By: kklare on Tue, 20 April 2004 19:16
		Re: library and online help By: R.Bauer on Wed, 07 April 2004 08:02
		Re: library and online help By: savoie on Wed, 07 April 2004 07:55
		Re: library and online help By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 07 April 2004 07:58

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