Re: Experienced problem w/ <optiondef> tag

[Joe McLean <joe.mclean@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jean-Marie,
It is true that an option may only be defined once in the options.xml.  
The way to handle this is with the optiondef element attribute 
inherit="optiondef".  As of LAS v6.4 the value of the inherit field can 
be a comma-separated list of optiondef names.  Consider the following 
example.
<optiondef name="Optiondef_1">
      <option>
           <help>Option A information</help>
           <title>Option A</title>
           <menu type="options" name="option_a">
               <item values="default">Default</item>
               <item values="1">Yes</item>
               <item values="0">No</item>
           </menu>
       </option>
</optiondef>

<optiondef name="Optiondef_2">
      <option>
           <help>Option B information</help>
           <title>Option B</title>
           <menu type="options" name="option_b">
               <item values="default">Default</item>
               <item values="1">Yes</item>
               <item values="0">No</item>
           </menu>
       </option>
</optiondef>

<optiondef name="Optiondef_3" inherit="#Optiondef_1,#Optiondef_2">
      <option>
           <help>Option C information</help>
           <title>Option C</title>
           <menu type="options" name="option_c">
               <item values="default">Default</item>
               <item values="1">Yes</item>
               <item values="0">No</item>
           </menu>
       </option>
</optiondef>

Optiondef_3 will then refer to Option A, Option B, and Option C.

Joe
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J-M Epitalon wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I installed LAS 6.4 on Linux RedHat 9.
>
> I have a class of datasets for which I plan to set specific options.
> Actually, I have to sets of options: one for plotting and one for
> retrieving the data.
>
> I added in options.xml two option sets, inheriting from DefaultOptions
> and DefaultDataOptions.
> Then, in each of these two sets, I included the same option menu: 
> <menu type="options" name="simulation_no">
>
> When compiling the XML files, I get the following error message:
> ======================
> make
> ../xml/perl/genLas.pl las.xml
> DB host: []
> DB login name: [root]
> DB password: []
> Serializing file:/usr/local/las/server/las.xml to database
> Building indexes...
> Resolving links...
> Duplicate menu name: simulation_no at ../xml/perl/LASUI.pm line 186.
> make: *** [../ui/config.js] Error 255
> =======================
>
> Could you help me, please ?
>
> Jean-Marie Epitalon
> CERFACS, Toulouse, France
>