Re: Self-compiling procedures

On Feb 16, 11:50 pm, Michael Aye <kmichael....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Feb 16, 11:30 pm, Spon <christoph.b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > On Feb 16, 10:18 pm, maye <kmichael....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > Thanks so much for your fast answers, and I'm very sorry, I was too
> > > imprecise with my question, silly me.
> > > I am actually looking for a way to group similar procedures into one
> > > file to reduce the amount of library files, it's just harder to
> > > maintain.
> > > Is there a way to keep things still self-compilable when I put
several
> > > procedures into one file?
> > Short answer - no.
> > Here, have a read of this, particularly the second half:
> >http://www.dfanning.com/tips/namefiles.html

> And I got an idea: I could at least sort things by subfolders. As IDL
> parses recursively - as it was mentioned before - I can put related
> procedures together.
> Thanks for your hints.

If the functions are truly related, you may want to investigate the
use of object programming. The IDL manual on the subject is quite
horrible - it assumes you want to use their object graphics and write
user interfaces in IDL (yuck). But as far as grouping related
function, it is a powerful concept. Be prepared to dive into pointers
though.

Maarten