;$Author: nikos $ ;$Date: 2014-09-03 15:05:59 -0700 (Wed, 03 Sep 2014) $ ;$Header: /home/cdaweb/dev/control/RCS/restore_mystruct.pro,v 1.3 2012/11/01 16:44:44 johnson Exp johnson $ ;$Locker: johnson $ ;$Revision: 15739 $ ; ;Copyright 1996-2013 United States Government as represented by the ;Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ;All Rights Reserved. ; ;------------------------------------------------------------------ FUNCTION restore_mystruct,fname ; declare variables which exist at top level COMMON CDFmySHARE, v0 ,v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, v6, v7, v8, v9,$ v10,v11,v12,v13,v14,v15,v16,v17,v18,v19,v20 ; Use the IDL restore feature to reconstruct the anonymous structure a RESTORE,FILENAME=fname ; The anonymous structure should now be in the variable 'a'. Determine ; if the structure contains .DAT or .HANDLE fields sz=size(a) if sz[n_elements(sz)-2] eq 0 then begin print,'Looking for structure a but it is undefined. Perhaps this sav file was not generated by cdfx.' return,-1 endif if sz[n_elements(sz)-2] ne 8 then begin print,'a is not a structure. Perhaps this sav file was not generated by cdfx.' return,-1 endif ti = tagindex('HANDLE',tag_names(a.(0))) if ti ne -1 then begin tn = tag_names(a) nt = n_elements(tn) ; determine number of variables for i=0,nt-1 do begin a.(i).HANDLE = handle_create() order = 'handle_value,a.(i).HANDLE,v' + strtrim(string(i),2) + ',/SET' status = EXECUTE(order) endfor endif return,a end