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Re: Self-compiling procedures [message #58730 is a reply to message #58729]

Sat, 16 February 2008 14:18

maye
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Registered: June 2006

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On Feb 16, 11:05 pm, Spon <christoph.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 16, 6:47 pm, maye <kmichael....@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> In terms of self-compiling I'm a beginner, so please excuse my
>> ignorance if this is written somewhere in the manual, I couldn't find
>> it easily at least:
>> So far I put every procedure I consider to be useful enough for more
>> than one task in its extra file, so that if it's called, IDL compiles
>> it automatically, having the procedure and file name identical.
>> But after a while, the number of files I have keeps growing.
>> I wonder if there's another elegant way to keep things auto-compilable
>> without me having to compile some kind of library before I start
>> working on a task using my "library" of useful procedures.
>> Am I missing something simple?
>> Thanks for any hints and a nice weekend!
>> Best regards,
>> Michael
>
> You should add your library directory to your !PATH - File->Preferences->Path.
>
> Then you can call every procedure/function in the library without ever
> having to compile it first. In fact, any directory that has any .pro
> file in it is probably better off in !PATH. Top level directories,
> anyway - thankfully IDL searches recursively.
>
> Take care,
> Chris

Thanks so much for your fast answers, and I'm very sorry, I was too
imprecise with my question, silly me.
I am actually looking for a way to group similar procedures into one
file to reduce the amount of library files, it's just harder to
maintain.
Is there a way to keep things still self-compilable when I put several
procedures into one file?

Cheers,
Michael

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		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Maarten[1] on Mon, 18 February 2008 00:55
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: maye on Sat, 16 February 2008 15:50
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Vince Hradil on Sat, 16 February 2008 14:45
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Spon on Sat, 16 February 2008 14:30
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: maye on Sat, 16 February 2008 14:18
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Spon on Sat, 16 February 2008 14:05
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: Vince Hradil on Sat, 16 February 2008 13:51
		Re: Self-compiling procedures By: maye on Tue, 19 February 2008 01:29

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