On 27.01.2022 03:24, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote: > I want to run rexxtry with rxmath loaded so I can use its functions. > That's straightforward enough: > > Call rexxtry > ::Requires 'RxMath' Library > > Now suppose I want to load the rxmath functions with shorter names, so I > don't have to type RXCALC in front of everything: > > ::Routine Log External 'Library RxMath RxCalcLog' > > Those renamed routines are only available to my program, not to rexxtry. > > I can use PUBLIC to make them available to programs that call my program > with ::REQUIRES, like so: > > /* mymath.rex */ > ::Routine Log Public External 'Library RxMath RxCalcLog' > > /* trymath.rex */ > Trace ?R > Say 'Enter commands here:' > ::Requires 'MyMath' > > But they're not available to a program called *by* my program, whether > they're loaded by my program or by one it requires. If I try this: > > Call rexxtry > ::Requires 'MyMath' > ::Routine TryLog Public External 'Library RxMath RxCalcLog' > > neither LOG nor TRYLOG is available to rexxtry. Am I overlooking some > way to make them available, short of writing a stub routine to call > RxCalcLog and putting it on disk (either separately or in a library)?
Not sure whether I understand you correctly. However one observation w.r.t. rexxtry.rex: this utility allows one to run dynamically Rexx statements by interpreting them. Directives OTOH are not statements that can be executed dynamically in this syntax, they are static directives to the Rexx interpreter which processes them only once, when it the interpreter loads and checks an ooRexx program. You could try "call 'MyMath'" instead, which will cause the interpreter to run the external Rexx program and upon return will allow you access to all public routines and public classes defined in 'MyMath' (and all public routines and public classes 'MyMath' may bring in via ::requires directives of its own etc.). If you wanted to define a routine dynamically in rexxtry.rex this would be possible as well. You would need to use the .Routine class for this, cf. rexxref.pdf, "5.1.6 Routine Class" which also documents how to load routines from native libraries (cf. "loadExternalRoutine"). HTH ---rony _______________________________________________ Oorexx-users mailing list Oorexx-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-users
