If you don't know what an end-dogger is, click here for a brief overview. This program is just the latest in a series of programs I've written for them over the years. Click here for a history of that.
The output you will get today is from one of the following.
Unless the net is really congested today, by now three small windows should have appeared in the upper left part of your screen. They should be labeled in their title bars as "Line Display Control", "Slice Display Control", and "Help".
You can expand them by doing the appropriate thing for your system. Or if you want, you can vanish them by again doing the appropriate thing. If you vanish both the Line Display and Slice Display, the Help window will vanish on its own. When both the Line Display and the Slice Display window have been vanished, the applet will exit.
The program displays text or graphical data in two different types of windows. The "Slice" windows are a representation of a log looking at it from the end. The user can select various cross sections (slices) to display. To enable one of the slice windows first expand the Slice Control window and click one of the enable buttons. Within a few seconds a picture should appear.
The "Line" windows are a representation of a log looking at it from the side. The user can select various views (top, right, or left side) and see what that view looked like at various points in the editing process. To enable one of the slice windows expand the Line Display Control window and click on one of the enable buttons. If the graphics button is selected, the view will be plotted, if in text mode, you will just get a table of numbers.
Both line and slice data windows are created as small windows in the upper left part of the screen. You should be able to move them to any part of your screen. To get more detail from any graphics window, you can resize the window or you can click one of the zoom buttons. The horizontal blue lines are scaled to be one inch apart . The vertical green lines on the slice data windows are the same. The green lines on the line windows are scaled to be six inches apart.
If what you are viewing today are the results of some previous run (the most likely case), new data will be available every few seconds and the selected windows will automatically update. If for some reason you want to stop your display from being updated, just click on stop in either control window. The stop buttons on the control panels do not stop the server creating the data that is being displayed. All they do is to stop your screen from being updated. Have fun...
By the way, an interesting thing to watch is all three views (top, right, and left) with the pieces displayed and a slice display showing that view. If you have a monitor with lots of resolution, select even more views. All the line displays use the same data packet so additional views do not increase the bandwidth requirement. The slice displays use a different data packet than the line displays, but they also all share the same one. If both types of displays are enabled, they share the data packet for the piece information. If you come up with a reason you need more data windows than the number I have configured, let me know, I've had as many as nine windows enabled for both types when I was debugging.
If you expand the help window there should be two columns of buttons that correspond to the buttons on the slice and line control windows. If you click on one of the buttons on the help window, you will get a short description of what the button does.
The applet should stop running if you press the back button or enter another URL. It will automagically restart if you return to the page that invoked it by pressing the back or forward buttons.
I'm very interested in any bugs you might discover, that would include things like windows remaining on the screen after you think they should have vanished, or even irritations, which might be things like excessive flicker during updates. See below for currently known bugs/irritations. If you have ideas about how to improve any part of this, let me know about that also.
Windows and Linux Issues
MAC OS 8.5 with Explorer 5.0: