Installation: If you have access to G:\AppData\CADD\wnp-nt you may use Wit!P on your ENGINE PC (desktop or laptop) without the need to install the program. The advantage of using Wit!P directly off the G: drive is that you will always use the up-to-date version including all the bug fixes. Laptop users may wish to make a copy of G:\AppData\CADD\wnp-nt to the C: drive, if they need access to Wit!P when the laptop is not connected to the G: drive. If you do not have access to the Wit!P installation on the G: drive, you will have to download the Wit!P for Windows zip-archive and unpack it into a folder of your choice.
Before you start using Wit!P you should run the registerWNP script in the Wit!P
installation folder (open the Wit!P folder and double click on the registerWNP Windows
NT Command Script icon):
The script will ask you if you would like to set
up the
mosue to use the left or right mouse button for atom picking in Wit!P.
Your choice will be inserted into the MS Registry. In addition, running
this script will register the Wit!P application to be the default
application for files with the extension .wnp (Wit!P script files). If you
move the Wit!P installation to a new location, you should run registerWNP again to
make the new location known to the operating system.
Optionally, create a shortcut for Wit!P:
with
the right
mouse button down, drag witnotp
Windows NT Command Script icon to your desktop or
to the
taskbar,
release the mouse button, and select Create Shortcuts Here from
the menu
that
pops up. This shortcut is designed to start the application in the
directory
H:\. You may wish to change this default directory (right-click the witnotp
icon on the desktop, select Properties, Shortcut, and change
the
field labeled Start in).
Optionally, create a shortcut for for the graphics server: with the right mouse button down, drag the server Windows NT Command Script icon to your desktop or taskbar, release the mouse button, and select Create Shortcuts Here from the menu that pops up. This shortcut may be used to start a graphics server to render graphics for Wit!P sessions running on a remote UNIX or Linux host. You will probably want to change the shortcut properties to run the server in a minimized window.
If you wish, you may use the witnotp
icon to decorate either of your Wit!P
shortcuts (right click on the
shortcut, select Properties, Change Icon...).
How to use:
running on remote UNIX system, with display
on Windows
system:
All other Platforms (source code package):
Prerequisites: Compilers, of course. Plus optionally the GNU Readline package. And most important: some skills, if you have to modify some of the Makefiles to work with your local setup. The source code package should compile on the following platforms: IRIX, Linux, Windows (with Cygwin [1]), Mac OS-X.
Installation: download the source code package wnpsrc-20100716.tar.gz.
and follow the installation
instructions.
Some trivial modifications of some Makefile may be necessary on your
system
(e.g. in client/Linux/Makefile, to turn off readline support, if you
don't
have readline installed).
Notes: The directory name used above (wnpsrc) is just an example. You may use any other name instead. It is recommended to keep binaries (if you have installed one of the pre-compiled packages) and sources in separate directory trees. If you use a tar program that understands the -z flag you may untar the compressed archive directly, without going through gzip.
References:
1. Cygwin is a UNIX environment for Windows. It provides a POSIX emulation library and a collection of tools ported from UNIX (awk, grep, sed, perl,...). The Cygwin package may be installed from http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/.