objects/

mg_class_hierarchy.pro

includes main-level program

Retrieves or prints a class hierarchy for an object or classname.

For example, a list object can be inspected like:

  IDL> lst = list()
  IDL> mg_class_hierarchy, lst
  LIST
    IDL_CONTAINER
    COLLECTION
      IDL_OBJECT

mg_class_hierarchy, object [, hierarchy=hash] [, /no_print]

Retrieves or prints a class hierarchy for an object or classname.

object in required type=objref or string

object or string classname to find superclasses for

hierarchy out optional type=hash: nested hash with keys of superclass names and values of hierarchy for that superclass
no_print in optional type=boolean: set to not print the hierarchy

Personal library of Michael Galloy
Contact me if you have enhancement requests or bug fixes.