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Re: programmatically compile a procedure without a .pro extension [message #85667 is a reply to message #85663]

Sun, 25 August 2013 20:23

wlandsman
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Registered: June 2000

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Heinz,

Thanks. That is an elegant use of CATCH.

I still have mild trepidation about requiring an arbitrary user to have write access to a disk. But I've never had any problem using IDL_TMPDIR as a scratch writeable directory, so I should probably
stop worrying. --Wayne

On Sunday, August 25, 2013 8:10:37 AM UTC-4, Heinz Stege wrote:
> If you don't want to get a .pro file by renaming (or making a copy of)
>
> the .bak file, you can do something like the following. The routine
>
> below creates a temporary .pro file and includes the files with other
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> extensions by use of the @ include file character:
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>
>
> pro compile,filenames
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> ;
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> tempfile='compile_temp'
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> openw,lun,/get_lun,tempfile+'.pro'
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> printf,lun,'@'+filenames,form='(a)'
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> free_lun,lun
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> ;
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> catch,error
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> if ~error then resolve_routine,tempfile
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> catch,/cancel
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> ;
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> end
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>
>
> The catch statement suppresses an error message from the compiler,
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> that there is no compile_temp routine.
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>
>
> Note that you can specify the filenames by a string array, if you want
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> to compile more than one file.
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>
>
> Cheers, Heinz

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		Re: programmatically compile a procedure without a .pro extension By: wlandsman on Sun, 25 August 2013 20:23

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