Utilities/
xhelp.pro
Display an IDL procedure header using widgets and the widget manager.
xhelp
Widget
xhelp, filename, _extra=_extra
Parameters
filename
in
required
A scalar string that contains the filename of the file to display.
If FILENAME does not include a complete path specification, xhelp will
search for the file in the current working directory and then each of the
directories listed in !PATH environment variable. The
".pro" file suffix will be appended if it is not supplied.
Keywords
_extra
used to pass your keywords
Examples
Open a file and create a widget to display its contents.
Version history
Version
$Id: xhelp.pro 163 2006-08-29 12:59:46Z navarro $
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.
Produced by IDLdoc 2.0.