Utilities/
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 242 2007-04-06 08:35:17Z pinsard $
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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