Requirements
and
Implementation
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The Windows implementation of FLUDViz is distributed as a self
installing executable file created with Inno Setup. It has
was designed to work on any 32-bit MS Windows platform, and has been
tested on Windows 95, 98, NT 4, and 2000. Source code is also
available in a separate download. FLUDViz -
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requires GLUT/Tk for
communication between the OpenGL graphics window and the Tcl/Tk
control window.
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reads the same file formats as the Unix implementation. Perl and LinkLint, which is
shareware, are required if you want to generate input files on your
PC, but they are not needed to view the files generated elsewhere.
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invokes OpenGL and WGL (Windows GL
extensions). Windows 95 users need to install Service Pack 1 in order
to have the required OpenGL support. Windows 2000 users need to
install an accelerated OpenGL driver for their video card because of
problems with the Microsoft software implementation of OpenGL.
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launches a Tcl/Tk process for the control menu, thus you need a Tcl/Tk implementation, version 8.2
or higher.
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exchanges information with the Tcl/Tk menu via application
specific MS Windows events.
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uses your default web browser for text display and to show pages of
website.
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Download
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Go to our NIST Web
Metrics download page and download the setup executable for
FLUDViz. This executable can be downloaded to an arbitrary location on
your Windows computer, for example, C:\temp. Execute the downloaded
file to install FLUDViz. It will allow you to use the default location
C:\WebMetrics\WebTools\FLUDViz or specify another location to install the
FLUDViz files.
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Directory
Structure
and
Files
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FLUDViz installs itself, by default, in C:\WebMetrics. You
should use the same directory as any other WebMetrics tools you might
have installed. It puts the executable and script files in
C:\WebMetrics\WebTools\FLUDViz, a stroke font file in
C:\WebMetrics\WebTools\resources\ogl, and a sample data set in
C:\WebMetrics\WebLogs\Demo. It creates three registry keys in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\NIST\WebMetrics: WEBMET_TOOLS,
WEBLOG_DATA, and CHAR_GEOM. These specify respectively the locations
of the base directory of the Web Metrics tools, the data files, and a
file of character data used to draw the labels in the OpenGL graphics
window. It also creates an start menu item in "Programs | NIST Web
Metrics" to visualize the sample data set. |
NIST Web Metrics