| Re: Cool Help! [message #31401] |
Mon, 08 July 2002 10:36 |
Richard Adams
Messages: 9
Registered: January 2000
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Hi Ben, this looks very good. Thanks! Just a note from a Mac user - the help
file name is one char longer than our Classic MacOS max filename length. I
removed the last 't' and all works fine. Of course, when we get an OSX
version of IDL.....
Cheers, Richard.
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Richard J Adams }<}}}}�> e: r.j.adams@bath.ac.uk
MRC Senior Research Fellow t: +44 1225 826436
Developmental Biology Programme f: +44 1225 826779
Department of Biology and Biochemistry
University of Bath
Bath, BA2 7AY
UK
> From: btupper@bigelow.org (Ben Tupper)
> Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 14:53:47 GMT
> Subject: Cool Help!
>
> Hello,
>
> You may recall a while back that I had a thorn under my saddle
> regarding the IDL online help (in particular for IDL 5.5 which was
> padded on as a PDF.) Some folk passed along ideas about what might
> be nice for future online help system, and I faithfully sent those
> ideas along to RSI. I hope I sent them to the right place but I have
> no idea since I received no response.
>
> In the meantime, Andrew Cool had been cooking up a method for
> extracting the online help text (including that for IDL 5.5) via that
> neato IDL 5.5 HTML help files that David is hosting at his website. I
> still don't know who crafted that.
>
> We have now wrapped Andew's query routine with a GUI wrapper. The GUI
> provides an alphabetical index, a routine list, a 'See Also' list, and
> the help text for the queried routine. The GUI is object based but
> the object is stored in a system variable for easy access.
>
> You can retrieve the three necessary files from...
>
> www.tidewater.net/~pemaquid/coolhelp.zip
>
> Simply unzip all three files into your !PATH and then
>
> IDL> ch
>
> or
>
> IDL> ch, 'uniq' ;or whatever routine you would like to see
>
> You might need to reset your session before it will work and you
> *WILL* need to have
>
> (1) Martin Schultz's MGS_BASEOBJECT
>
> http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/~schultz.martin/idl/index.html
>
> and
>
> (2) David Fanning's COYOTE_PROGRAMS.ZIP
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/documents/programs/coyoteprograms.zi p
>
>
> This package has been tested on WIN98 and Win2000. Please direct
> comments and suggestions to Andrew at andrew.cool@dsto.defence.gov.au
> or to me at pemaquidriver@tidewater.net.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ben
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