| Re: Online help with non-windowing devices [message #4620 is a reply to message #4452] |
Fri, 30 June 1995 00:00   |
rivers
Messages: 228
Registered: March 1991
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In article <3stb3tINNpk7@lanews.la.asu.edu>, scowen@tycho.la.asu.edu (Paul A. Scowen) writes:
> Mark Rivers (rivers@cars3.uchicago.edu) wrote:
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> : Prior to IDL 4.0 I could get online help by typing '?', and I would get a
> : text-based interface to the online help. Not beautiful, but it did the job.
> : This no longer works, IDL tries to use the hypertext help and I get an X error
> : opening display.
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> : There was a post about a month ago which described a way to get the old widget
> : based help by using WIDGET_OLH. The old text based help was done with the
> : routine MAN_PROC. MAN_PROC still exists in IDL_DIR/lib/, but when I run it
> : there appears to be no online help library available?
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> Yes, there's a way to do this. I have extensive sets of my own help files
> that I merge into the system help databases, but with this bloody new
> hyperhelp (piece of crap if you ask me) you can only merge files in .hlp
> format for which there are no compilation routines provided. When you run
> MAN_PROC it sees nothing because IDL v4.0 comes with no .help files in the
> help/ dir under the IDL tree. What you have to do is go into the pro dirs in
> the tree and build your own sets of .help files using MK_LIBRARY_HELP and
> then dump those files into the help/ dir. Then MAN_PROC will see them. I've
> given up on hyperhelp and use widget_olh pretty much all the time.
The problem is that I want to see the help on internal IDL routines, not on
routines in $IDL_DIR/lib or my own routines. If I am working from a
non-windowing display I can't get help on PLOT or FINDGEN or any other IDL
routine which is built into the IDL image.
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