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| Re: Two new tools [message #11286] |
Sun, 29 March 1998 00:00 |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Martin Schultz (mgs@io.harvard.edu) writes:
> today I finally got around improving my concept of displaying help
> information on self-written (and library!) routines. Please find
> attached
> function routine_name.pro - which returns the name of the caller
> routine
> and
> procedure usage.pro - which displays the "user-relevant" portion of
> the IDL program header (with minor modifications).
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> The idea of these routines is to prevent wrist injury from too much
> double typing in constructs like:
> if (keyword_set(help)) then begin
> print ; all the stuff that's in the header anyway
> endif
Thanks for this, Martin. And although I hate to mention it,
your Usage program duplicates functionality that is already
there in IDL in the form of Doc_Library. Yours does have the
significant advantage of having 6 fewer letters to type in
the name. :-)
I do like the touch of getting the name of the program off
the stack. I never thought of doing that before.
Let's just say that great minds think alike. :-)
Cheers,
David
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Fanning Software Consulting
E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
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