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What the functionality of form attribute "?basename"

JamesJames

Hi,

I'm just curious the functionality of "?basename" of a form that created by "hiCreateAppform" or "hiCreateLayoutForm", can anyone explain this with some example code? I would be much appreciate. 

Thanks,

James

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  • James,

    I've never used ?baseName in the last 30 years (I'd never even noticed its existence!).

    As far as I can tell, it's useful if you use hiStoreFormLocation - the form location for all forms with the same baseName is then stored. This is used by Options→Save Session in the CIW (which I think pretty much nobody uses) so that you can restore form locations in the next session by using virtuoso -restore sessionFile. The baseName is then useful for the situation when you have multiple uniquely generated forms (e.g. with ?name gensym(...) to ensure you can have more than one at once) - the location information can be stored for a common base. If you don't use ?baseName it would just store the location for the form symbol.

    The documentation is pretty terrible on this argument - I'll request it is improved. I might have got the above wrong, but from a quick look through the code I think that's what it's for!

    Andrew

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thanks Andrew, thanks share your information.

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