Utilities/
xhelp.pro
Display an IDL procedure header using widgets and the widget manager.
xhelp
Utilities Widget
xhelp, filename, _EXTRA=_EXTRA
Parameters
filename
in
required
type: scalar string
It is the name of the procedure or of the function
we want to display (with or without .pro at the end).
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 327 2007-12-13 16:22:35Z 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 modification 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.