Distance Developers Guide
Site map
- Introduction
- Notations
- Developing Distance
- Releasing Distance
- Architecture
- Managing infrastructure
- Reference
Distance for Windows quick start setup
- Introduction
- Distance for Windows
- R
- RStudio
- Distance R packages
- Configure Distance for Windows and R
- Run Distance R MarkDown files
- Examples of paths with spaces causing problems
How to back up project resources
- Back up GitHub repository
- Back up GitHub issues
- Back up SourceForge CVS repository
- Back up Bugzilla bug reports
How to build Fortran components
- Find out tool versions
- Build MCDS analysis engine
- Copy MCDS.exe for use in Visual Basic and release
- Build MCDS analysis engine NMake file
- Build MCDS analysis engine from command prompt using NMake file
- Capture MCDS input files from within Distance for Windows
- Run MCDS from the command prompt using captured input files
- Capture MCDS output files from within Distance for Windows
- Run Ec.exe from the command prompt
- Find out tool versions
- Build R DSM and MRDS analysis engines
- Build R DSM and MRDS analysis engines from within R
- Create R DSM and MRDS Roxygen documentation
- Run DSM and MRDS examples
- Install source package and build zip via package
- Copy R packages for use in Visual Basic and release
- How to write tests
- How to run tests from within R
- How to run tests from outwith R
- Run MRDS and DSM within R using captured input files
- Capture MCDS and DSM input files from within Distance for Windows
- Reproduce CDS and MCDS plots of detection function and pdf using R
- Reproduce CDS and MCDS qq-plots using R
- Reproduce MCDS plots of detection functions produced with non-factor covariates within using R
How to build Visual Basic components
- Find out tool versions
- View Visual Basic project dependencies
- Build single Visual Basic project
- Build all Visual Basic projects
- Remove all Visual Basic binaries
- Set DLL base address
- View binary (dll, ocx, exe) meta-data
- Update binary (dll, ocx, exe) meta-data
- View binary (dll, ocx, exe) meta-data
- View version compatibility
How to build documents and images
- Find out tool versions
- Edit text files
- Edit Distance icon
- Copy Distance icon for use in Visual Basic and release
- Create splash screen for new version
- Copy splash screen for use in Visual Basic and release
- Update user guide version number
- Build HTML Help
- Copy HTML Help for use in Visual Basic and release
- Build HTML Help from command prompt
- Update title slide with splash screen
- Build title page image
- Build user guide
- Build user guide from command prompt
- Add title page image to user guide
- Build user guide PDF
- Build user guide PDF from command prompt
- Copy user guide PDF for use in Visual Basic and release
How to get DSM and MRDS R Source Code
How to get MCDS Fortran Source Code
- Introduction
- Get MCDS source code using Free Software Foundation CVS client
- Get MCDS source code using TortoiseCVS
How to register components and generate licence keys
- Register component with registry
- Unregister component from registry
- Check component registry entry
- Generate licence key for component
How to release MCDS on SourceForge
How to release a minor version of Distance for Windows
- Introduction
- Main folder
- BACKUP folder
- Help folder
- RPackages folder
- Sample Projects folder
- Sample Projects\Templates folder
Set up Fortran development environment
- Compaq Visual Fortran 6.6 Professional
- Ec.exe
- IMSL Numerical routines
- Array Visualizer (optional)
- TortoiseCVS
- Concurrent Version System
Set up R development environment
- R
- Rtools
- R packages
- Git for Windows
- RStudio (optional)
- Tinn-R Editor (optional)
- packrat (optional)
- gdata (optional)
- ActiveState ActivePerl (optional)
Set up development environment
- Introduction
- Where to get the development tools
- Distance development virtual machine
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Visual Basic and related tools
- Microsoft Visual Basic 5
- Microsoft Visual Basic 6
- Microsoft Jet 3.5
- Microsoft Development Network (MSDN) documentation (optional)
- Microsoft Windows scripting 5.6.0.8225
- Third-party Visual Basic components and other tools
- ComponentOne VideoSoft VSFlex 7.0.1.187
- Common Controls Replacement Project Browse Dialog Server 0.2.0.12
- Data Dynamics ActiveBar 2.5.2.121
- Desaware Spyworks 6.3
- ESRI MapObjects 2.3
- Farpoint Tabpro 3.1.22
- Polar Software PolarZIP 5.0.12.0
- Sheridan Software ActiveThreed 2.04
- Zlib zip
- Libraries
- Other tools for Visual Basic-related development
- Common Controls Replacement Project Context menu Register-Unregister (optional)
- Common Controls Replacement Project FindAll (optional)
- Microsoft Access 97 (optional)
- Documentation and image tools
- Microsoft Word 2003
- Microsoft WordPad
- Axialis IconWorkshop 6 (optional)
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft PhotoDraw
- Windows HTML Help Workshop
- Doc-To-Help 2006 v3 build 3.0.313
- Adobe Acrobat
- Release build tools
- Fortran tools
- R tools
- General tools
- Introduction
- MCDS
- How Distance for Windows invokes MCDS
- Microsoft Jet database configuration
- MCDS Visual Basic invocation implementation overview
- MCDS implementation notes
- Introduction
- MRDS and DSM
- How Distance for Windows calls MRDS and DSM
- Distance for Windows R folder
- Microsoft Jet database configuration
- DSM and MRDS Visual Basic invocation implementation overview
- MRDS and DSM implementation notes
Visual Basic coding conventions
- Introduction
- Class Naming Conventions
- General
- Declaring Classes
- Prefixes for Form Modules
- Prefixes for Code Modules
- Prefixes for Class Modules
- Prefixes for User Control Modules
- Object Naming Conventions
- Prefixes for Controls (mapping controls excluded) and other classes
- Choosing Prefixes for Other Controls
- Prefixes for ESRI MapObjects
- Prefixes for Data Access Objects (DAO)
- Prefixes for User-defined Class Instances
- Constant and Variable Coding Conventions
- Variables
- Variable Data Types
- Variable Scope Prefixes
- Constants
- Enumerated constants
- User-Defined Types
- Descriptive Variable, Constant and Procedure Names
- Array Lower Bounds
- Structured Coding Conventions