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xhelp.pro

Display an IDL procedure header using widgets and the widget manager.

xhelp Widget

xhelp, filename, _EXTRA=_EXTRA

Parameters

filename        in required type: scalar string

the name of the file to display. FILENAME should be located in !path. ".pro" suffix will be appended if needed.

Keywords

_EXTRA       

Used to pass keywords to xdisplayfile

Examples

 IDL> xhelp,'plt'

    

Version history

Version

$Id: xhelp.pro 239 2007-03-28 06:50:03Z smasson $

History

Written By Steve Richards, December 1990 Graceful error recovery, DMS, Feb, 1992. Modified to extract .pro documentation headers, PJR/ESRG mar94 Paul Ricchiazzi jun93 Institute for Computational Earth System Science University of California, Santa Barbara 7/1/99 : legeres mofification par Sebastien Masson : utilisation de xdisplayfile, de findfile et de _extra. 6/7/1999: compatibility mac and windows

Known issues

Restrictions

Triggers the XMANAGER if it is not already in use.

 


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