| Re: 8.0 Developer Documentation [message #71979 is a reply to message #71929] |
Fri, 30 July 2010 15:34   |
Erik Rasmussen
Messages: 7
Registered: July 2010
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On Jul 30, 9:00 am, Doug Edmundson <do...@ittvis.com> wrote:
> A lot of this has been moved into .../itt/idl/idl80/help/pdf/. If you
> still can't find what you're looking for, let me know and I'll relay it
> to the docs group.
>
> Cheers,
> Doug
>
> On 7/30/10 6:45 AM, Haje Korth wrote:
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>> Ugh, indeed, a lot of help has gone MIA. Also, the IMSL_ routines are
>> no longer listed. The PDFs are are still in the distribution, but who
>> wants to use the pdfs???
>
>> On Jul 29, 6:34 pm, Paulo Penteado<pp.pente...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Indeed, it seems that a lot of the help has disappeared, not only
>>> regarding the iTools. Which is a serious problem. It seems that the
>>> contents that used to be in several of the "guides" has disappeared.
>>> If it is there, I could not find.
>
>>> For instance, if I now search for DLM, all I find are the help pages
>>> for dlm_load, dlm_register, and make_dll. In the old help, there used
>>> to be a lot more, under
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>>> IDL Programmers' Guides> External Development Guide> Part III:
>>> Techniques That Use IDL's Internal API
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>>> I also searched and browsed the new help, and could find nowhere the
>>> description of the IDL_VARIABLE structure, which is in the 7.1 help. I
>>> was particularly curious about that subject to find out how the
>>> reference count got included into the pointers and objects while
>>> keeping compatibility with the older versions.
>
>>> I have the same question as Erik: Where did those go? How do we get
>>> them back (and updated)?
>
>>> It seems it is just a problem with the transition in the documentation
>>> to the new format, since it is not specific to the iTools - and even
>>> direct graphics are still around and present in the help.
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>
Hi Doug,
I understand that the documentation is still being transitioned from
the last system to the new one.
I wonder if there is some way that ITTvis could make available a
collection of html that comprises the 7.1 documentation as a temporary
fix? Or perhaps is there some way to launch the 7.1 Help server
without having the 7.1 Workbench running?
For example, in the old system, I could use just about everything that
showed up under IDL API Reference Guides -> IDL Reference Guide ->
Part II: Object Class and Method Reference. If I had a folder with
those html files, I would be in much better shape than now.
Thanks...
Erik
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