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Re: 8.0 name conflict [message #72085 is a reply to message #72084]

Thu, 12 August 2010 06:54

Jeremy Bailin
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Registered: April 2008

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On Aug 11, 10:34 pm, wlandsman <wlands...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a popular procedure legend.pro in the IDL Astronomy library
> (http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftp/pro/plot/legend.pro) for putting
> a legend on a direct graphics plot. IDL 8.0 has a *function*
> LEGEND() for placing a legend on a PLOT(). While there is no
> conflict between a user procedure and an *intrinsic* function with the
> same name, in this case the ITTVIS function LEGEND() is written in
> IDL. So which ever gets compiled first prevents the other
> legend.pro from being compiled.
>
> If I put the standard IDL library at the beginning of the !PATH then I
> can't call the direct graphics LEGEND.
>
> IDL> legend
> % Compiled module: LEGEND.
> % Attempt to call undefined procedure/function: 'LEGEND'.
>
> But if I put the Astron Library ahead in the !PATH then I can't call
> LEGEND()
>
> IDL> l = legend(TARGET=[p1,p2], POSITION=[140,0.9], /DATA)
> % Compiled module: LEGEND.
> % Attempt to call undefined procedure/function: 'LEGEND'.
>
> --Wayne

Yikes, that's going to break lots of my code when I upgrade. :-( I
suppose you'll rename the astronomy library procedure? I'm going to
have a fun day of search-and-replace then...

-Jeremy.

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		Re: 8.0 name conflict By: wlandsman on Thu, 12 August 2010 08:07
		Re: 8.0 name conflict By: penteado on Thu, 12 August 2010 07:04
		Re: 8.0 name conflict By: Jeremy Bailin on Thu, 12 August 2010 06:54
		Re: 8.0 name conflict By: Mark Piper on Thu, 12 August 2010 06:47

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