Directions for Making Movies of Local Images

ONCE YOU HAVE PERFORMED THESE STEPS, YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE TO PERFORM THEM AGAIN AS LONG AS YOU SAVE THE COPIED PROGRAMS.

From inside Mosaic:

1. From the "Options" menu at the top of the Mosaic window, set "Load to Local Disk". (Look at the Options menu again. If set properly, a yellow square will appear before "Load to Local Disk".)
2. Copy the "xloop" program to the local machine. "xloop" is an X Window System window image looping utility that allows X users to run a series of "gif" files as a movie. "xloop" can be run on any UNIX machine that uses X windows.
   • Executable versions are available for the SunOS4.1.3, Solaris 2, and HP-9000 (7xx and 8xx models with PA-RISC 1.1 version of CPU) operating systems. (Click on the hypertext to copy the appropriate file and name it "xloop".) A man page is available.
   • If you are using an operating system other than SunOS4.1.3, Solaris 2, or HP700, or you are having trouble with the executable that you copied above, copy the source code. Then, untar it on your local machine (by typing "tar xvf filename"). cd into the "xloopdir" subdirectory that is created, type "make", and an executable "xloop" file will result. Move that executable to the same directory where the image files reside or place it somewhere in your path. If you have any problems with "xloop", contact Harry Edmon (harry@atmos.washington.edu).
3. Copy a scriptfile to your local machine that uses xloop to make the images into a movie. You can name the scriptfile anything you want.
4. From the "Options" menu at the top of the Mosaic window, unset "Load to Local Disk". (Look at the Options menu again. If unset properly, the yellow square which was in front of "Load to Local Disk" should be gone.)

1. Make "xloop" and the scriptfile executable by typing "chmod +x filename" for each of them.
2. Once you have both the images of interest and the 2 programs ("xloop" and scriptfile) on your local machine, type the name of the scriptfile and proceed from there.