Setup and File Usage

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Distributed Program Files

Although the distributed setup program is recommended, all that's required is a folder for storing the executable files, the help files, and several optional support DLLs. The basic package is comprised of the following files:

 

Program Module

Description

walls32.exe

walls32.chm

wallcss.dll

wallsef.dll

wallexp.dll

wallshp.dll

wallsvg.dll

wallgps.dll

Main executable

Help file

Compass data import module

SEF import module

SEF export module

ESRI shapefile export module        

SVG import/export module

GPS receiver download module

 

Additional Programs Available for Use with Walls

Currently, two executable programs (EXE files) are distributed with Walls. While they can be run independently, they are designed to be launched from Walls whenever certain kinds of data are exported. Walls2D.exe is an SVG map viewer and Walls3D.exe is a viewer for VRML wireframe models.

 

Project Data Files

You will be creating separate project folders (e.g., C:\Caves\Huautla) for the projects you intend to work with, whether they be single caves or areas of many caves.  Depending on path property settings, the survey data files (default extension SRV) don't have to be stored in the same folder as their associated project script files (extension WPJ). However, it will make management of the project easier if data files are kept in subdirectories beneath the project directory. This makes archiving the project easier and also simplifies drag-and-drop transfers between different project trees.  (See Project Trees.)  It's simply a matter of preference whether one should work with a large complex project tree or with a number of simpler ones.

 

Long names for both folders and project script files are supported. For example, you might create a project file named "Hackberry Cave.wpj".  SRV data files, however, must have names no longer than eight characters (excluding the extension). Walls will enforce this restriction whenever you create a new data file. Note that project items of type Other can have long file names.

 

This is all you really need to be aware of.  Walls will automatically create a separate work folder beneath the project folder for the required databases as soon as you compile any portion of a project. This work folder has the same name as the project script file, but without the extension WPJ.