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Required components: You must first purchase and install Exceed, Exceed 3D, and Exceed XDK from OpenText (formally HummingBird) www.OpenText.com. Our software uses their X/Motif and Open GL libraries which are distributed in those three products. We have an OEM agreement with OpenText that will allow us to supply you with the single library that we use out of the XDK package, so you can obtain that directly from us for $50.00 US and not buy the whole XDK package.

The OpenText link to Exceed is at www.connectivity.opentext.com. You can get a 60 day trial version of Exceed from OpenText at:
http://connectivity.opentext.com/resource-centre/evaluations.aspx

Download install executibles:

Download Dosimetry Check (DCInstall.zip 19 megabytes). Password required. Extract file installdc.exe and run it.

Download utilities for Dosimetry Check: ConvertSiemensImages, ConvertMapCheckImages, ConvertKodakCRImages, ConvertPTW2DImages ConvertMatrixxImages (dcutils.exe, 8 megabytes). Run program dcutils.exe to install.

Download a utility for converting planar dose to in air x-ray intensity fluence for Dosimetry Check: ConvertPlanarToRMU.zip
Extact program ConvertPlanarToFluence.exe to c:\mathresolutions or where ever you installed Dosimetry Check. Extact or move the help file rtConvertAdacPlaneHelp to ... rl.dir\English.d\EnglishHelp.d.

Download IviewGT read utility IviewToDicom installer (installivdcm.exe, 2.4 megabytes).

Download inclinometer program for use with US Digital A2T. Cygwin required.

Download RtDosePlan (installrt.exe, 10 megabytes).

Download MillComp (installml.exe, 3 megabytes).

Download System2100 (installsy.exe, 2.6 megabytes).

Download MarkRT (VGRT) (installvt.exe, 8 megabytes).

Download MlcGapTest (installMlcGap.exe, 2 megabytes).

Installation Instructions:

Install Exceed first, then Exceed 3D, then either Exceed XDK or the Exceed XDK component: the X/Motif library hclxm.dll .

Put the 32 bit version of the X/Motif library hclxm.dll in Exceed in the x86 path if installing on a 64 bit system, i.e.
c:\Program Files (x86)\Hummingbird\Connectivity\nn.00\Exceed
Do NOT put it in the 64 bit path (does not have the (x86) after Program Files).

Explaination: The Exceed install utility does not set the path to c:\Program Files (x86)\Hummingbird\Connectivity\nn.00\Exceed or
c:\Program Files\Hummingbird\Connectivity\nn.00\Exceed for that matter. Therefore our installer does so by searching for the three files: hclxt.dll, hclglx.dll, and hclxm.dll, and setting the path to where each file is found. But on a 64 bit machine, there are two versions of these files in the two respective paths. By putting only the 32 bit version of hclxm.dll in the 32 bit path, we guarantee that path will also be set. Otherwise you can add the path by editing. Go to control panel, system, advanced, environment variables, system variables. Scroll till you find path and hit the edit button. You will have to reboot.

Then run the install program downloaded above. The install program will check if Exceed, Exceed 3D, and the X/Motif library are installed and will not proceed if those components from Exceed cannot be found. As discussed above, a path is set to where the Exceed dll's are found. You may have to reboot the computer before running our application for the path to be known.

Then make the xconfig settings described below.

Download GhostScript and GSview and install, as described below. You must also have the Adobe reader installed.

Make Windows display settings as described below.

The install utility will put everything in c:\MathResolutions unless you change the location. However, it would be best not to create a path that has a space in any of the path names as some functions might not be able to work. At present, the patient directory folder, pat.d, is also at this location. Go under the Start menu to Programs to MathResolutions to run a program or run the short cut that the install program provided. There are other utility programs that will not appear on the Start menu. To run those programs, open a command prompt window, change directory to c:\MathResolutions, and type in the name of the program to run. Most utility programs are in a subfolder tools.dir or rttools.dir. Run these programs from the MathResolutions folder by typing: tools.dir\program_name.exe, for example. Use the dir command to get a listing of files that are in a folder. All executible program names end in .exe.

The program assumes your screen size is 1280 by 1024. You might want to change to that resolution (or larger). You go to control panel to Display to do that. If you have a smaller resolution, you might want to use a smaller size font. Copy file FontListSmallRes to FontListRes to use a smaller font. Popups in the program will be smaller accordingly.

If you have trouble, email us (see below). If, upon running our application a dynamic linked library is reported missing, do a search to see if the library is on your system. If it is, append that path to the system path variable. To set the path variable go to the control panel, to System, to Advanced, to Environment variables. Go to the System variables scrolled list. Select the Path variable and hit the Edit button to add the path to the missing dll. You type a ";" at the end of the current list of paths and then add the new path at the end of the existing list. Hit the OK button. To test, type SET (enter) in a command prompt to get a list of current vairables and their values. Your Windows version might be sligthly different for setting the path environment varible. You might have to be Administrator to do this.

License Key When our program runs you should see a request for a license key (shown here) after you dismiss a welcome message. Email us the number that is displayed at the top of the popup in bold type. We will email you back the license key. You are not done however, review xconfig settings, GhostScript, and Windows settings below.

This is what our main application window should look like:
If not, the X server could not find the X resource files for the application. The directory holding those files (they end in the letters "Res") is pointed to by the environomental variable XAPPLRESDIR.

Set Windows Color Quality to 32 bit

And on Vista you have to set Color scheme to "Windows Aero" or you will have multiple redraws when you move a dialog popup across a graphics window. However, for stereo you will have to set "Windows Vista Basic".

Turn off showing window contents while dragging.

We recommend you select to NOT show contents of Windows while moving them so as not to cause a cascade of redraw events should you drag an application window across our application or a dialog across a graphics window.

On Windows XP go to Control Panel, select "Display", then "Appearance", then "Effects", and unclick "Show window contents while dragging".

On Vista select "Personalize Appearance and Sounds" from the control panel, then at the bottom select "Open classic appearance properties for more color options", select "Appearnce" on "Appearance Settings", then select "Effects" and toggle off "Show window contents while dragging".

On Windows 7 , start to type the word performance in the text area above the start menu (you only need "per" as shown below), and then on the popup that you get, shown below, Select "Performance Information and Tools"

On the next popup select "Adjust visual effects" on the left.

Then unclick "Show window contents whle dragging"

Make These Xconfig Settings

You must make changes to the x configuration file. Follow our instructions.

To Make a Desktop Shortcut to a Program: Go to the start menu to programs to mathresolutions and drag wth the mouse the program name you want to your desktop. Or right click on your DeskTop, go to "New" to "Shortcut"

Download GhostScript and GSview. If you don't have a PostScript printer connected to the parallel printer port of your computer, then go to /www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost to download and install both GhostScript and GSview on your system. You can select the version Ghostscrip 8.54. Be sure to download the Windows version, not the Linux version (and you probably have a 32 bit system). Version 8.54 works fine for our purposes. You should also then download and install GSview (look further down on the above page for a link to GSview) if you want to be able to view the Post Script files produced by our software. However, the default is to convert these files to pdf format and use a pdf viewer. Take the defaults when installing. First time when you print a postscript file from GSview, hit the settings button and select color.

Then edit the file gs.loc in directory c:\mathresolutions\rl.dir so that the path is correct to GhostScript, typically
c:\Program Files\gs\gs8.54\bin\gswin32.exe on a 32 bit system
or
c:\Program Files (x86)\gs\gs8.54\bin\gswin32.exe on a 64 bit system
and note where the version number of GhostScript is in the path name. If you are going to use GSView as the print preview program, you must likewise be sure the file gsview.loc contains the path to the GSView executible..

Present Limitations:

Non-alpha-numeric characters in file names. The program will not accept characters not legal in file names for both Windows and Unix. ! " # $ & * ; < = > ? @ [ ] ^ , ` { | }
- or + may not be the first character. : only in Windows once in a path, for example C:\stuff. You can type either / or \ as a directory separator, the program will change / to \.

Printing. If you don't have a Post Script printer directly connected to the parallel printer port of your printer, then you can either use the Adobe reader as a print preview or GSview and you can print from there. You will need GhostScrip in both cases. See the link above to download GhostScript and GSview. As set up by default the Post Script files can be converted by Ghostscript to PDF format for the Adobe reader.

A word on editing text files for editing program resource files. Use WordPad, not NotePad. WordPad recognizes a single line feed as a new line whereas NotePad does not. So NotePad would display a multiline text file on a single line if there are only line feeds in the file. If you use NotePad you may want to add a carriage return by using the enter key where you see a symbol for a line feed. Otherwise just use WordPad. However, note that WordPad and NotePad will save a file under the name you opened it with, but if you use SaveAs it will add the extension ".txt" to the file name.

Text File Standard Our software treats carriage returns and line feeds as white space, except a carriage return or line feed is needed to signal the end of a comment line started with //. // signals a comment which ends at the end of the line. Comments are also set off with the C programming style /* to */, which may also be nested. So in all program resource files, anything from /* to */is not read. Anything after // is not read until the end of the line. Text that is to be read is set off with <* to *>. However the <* and *> may be omitted if the text does not contain a space (i.e. is a single word). The programs are very unforgiving if it does not find a number where it expects a number. Generally the program will exit and display the contents of the file up to the offending point. This text is written to the command prompt window or to a log file in c:\mathresolutions. Use Save to resave the file. If you use SaveAs both programs add .txt to the file name which you will then have to rename to remove.

Stereo Set up for Stereoscoptic Vision

CheckSum: If you want to check the files you downloaded with a checksum, get program and file list.

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