Routine Name:
addfield
Description:
Add an extended (user-defined) field to an element.
Usage:
addfield [element] field-name [-indirect element field]
[-description text]
field-name name of the new field to be added to element
-indirect
make the field-name an alias for the a field
in another element
-description
add a descriptive text string
Example:
addfield /cell/soma area -d "Area of the compartment"
Notes:
If you have a compartment, /soma, with a hh_channel
/soma/hh_Na, then
addfield /soma Gk -indirect hh_Na Gk
will add a field to /soma called Gk which is an alias for
/soma/hh_na Gk. Note that the path in the -indirect option
is relative to the element to which you are adding the
field. The indirect element path can also be an absolute
path.
See also:
deletefield