Referring to Someone Elses Script from a UDF

[ChrisFromBoston]

Hi Everyone,

I'm writing a group of UDFs that will require someone else's (publicly provided) UDFs to work properly. Currently I simply add a comment in my AU3 file that says that "Joe User's" UDF is required and to download it from their website and I include a link with credit. Is this the socially accepted way to do this? I was going to ask this in the Example Script section, but it looks like I need 5 posts before I can post anything there

Thanks!

Chris.

[dantay9]

Yes, this is what you should do. You should also include the header (Green part at top of their UDF) in the script that uses their UDF.

[GEOSoft]

Hi Everyone,

I'm writing a group of UDFs that will require someone else's (publicly provided) UDFs to work properly. Currently I simply add a comment in my AU3 file that says that "Joe User's" UDF is required and to download it from their website and I include a link with credit. Is this the socially accepted way to do this? I was going to ask this in the Example Script section, but it looks like I need 5 posts before I can post anything there

Thanks!

Chris.

That's acceptable. And in case Joe User didn't put his/her name in the headers of their UDf then that is acually a very good way to do it.

It's just common courtesy to credit the author of the code that you are using but didn't write.

[ChrisFromBoston]

Thanks to both of you, I did just that in the header and then I also shot the author a PM to make sure he was fine with it all.

[GEOSoft]

Excellent way to handle this. It goes a long way to showing that you are community spirited. Welcome to the forums.