With the advent of SIL 5.8.0.0 we introduced packages for our ever-growing library of routinesfunctions. The logic behind it is that for many of the addons what we already had, we had to introduce functions / routines functions following some naming convention ( for instance, for Power Dashboards Reports and Gadgets all routines functions started with ‘reporting_’). We really hope to save you some typing.
A routine function must have a name, but it may also have a package and a ‘short’ name. To call it, either
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Let’s see a very simple example: fileOpen routine function lives within the ‘file' package, and has the short name ‘open’. The full name of the routine function is actually 'fileOpen’. Check the docs, people, we added for such routines functions the package information in that little table above!
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