RE: Options for my own Packages?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg44226] RE: [mg44212] Options for my own Packages?
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 03:34:07 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Steven,
Here is an example.
Foo::usage =
"Foo[x, opts...] is a routine that demonstrates the use of options. It
returns p1 x^p2 where p1 and p2 are the values of the options
FooParameter1 and FooParameter2.";
FooParameter1::usage = "FooParameter1 is an option for Foo.";
FooParameter2::usage = "FooParameter2 is an option for Foo.";
Options[Foo] = {FooParameter1 -> 1, FooParameter2 -> 2};
Foo[x_, opts___?OptionQ] :=
Module[{p1, p2},
p1 = FooParameter1 /. {opts} /. Options[Foo];
p2 = FooParameter2 /. {opts} /. Options[Foo];
p1 x^p2
]
Foo[y]
y^2
Foo[y, FooParameter1 -> a, FooParameter2 -> b]
a*y^b
Notice the method for extracting the values of the options. The input
options are used first and then the default options.
David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
From: Steven T. Hatton [mailto:hattons at globalsymmetry.com]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Can I create and use options in my own packages? I've seen comments in the
help documentation that say "built-in functions" have options. Here's an
example of what I want. I created a class called curveGrid, which has data
and methods for generating a coordinate grid defined by a mapping function
passed to the constructor. I would like to be able to set an option that
changed the default color of all instances of this class.
Is there a way to accomplish this so that I can do something like
SetOptions[curveGrid,name->value, name2->value2...]?
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