Table of Contents

• 1 Introduction 7
• 2 Overview 9
• 2.1 Skycat Classes 9
• 2.2 Package Organization 10
• 2.3 Single Binary Versions of Skycat 10
• 3 User's Guide 11
• 3.1 The Skycat Application 11
• 3.2 Skycat Widget Classes 13
• 3.2.1 The Main Skycat Window 13
• 3.2.2 The Catalog Window 14
• 3.3 Extending Skycat 14
• 3.3.1 Plugins 15
• Widget Level Plugins 15
• Example Widget Level Plugin 16
• Application Level Plugins 19
• Example Application Level Plugin 20
• 3.3.2 Subclassing 20
• 3.4 Remote Interfaces 21
• 3.4.1 Tcl send 21
• 3.4.2 Remote Socket Interface 22
• 3.4.3 SysV Shared Memory 22
• 3.4.4 Real-Time Server 22
• 3.4.5 Mmap 22
• 3.5 Skycat Public Interfaces 23
• 3.5.1 Extended Tcl Commands 23
• 3.5.2 C++ Classes 23
• 3.5.3 C Libraries 23
• 3.5.4 Itcl Classes, Itk Widgets 23
• 3.5.5 Tcl Procs 24
• 4 Reference 25
• 4.1 COMMANDS 25
• skycat(1) 26
• 4.2 C++ CLASSES, C ROUTINES 30
• Skycat(3) 31
• SkySearch(3) 36
• ITCL CLASSES 38
• SkyCat(n) 39
• SkyCatCtrl(n) 41
• SkyQuery(n) 44
• SkyQueryResult(n) 46
• SkySearch(n) 47
• 51
• 5 Installation 53
• 5.1 Before you build skycat 53
• 5.2 Building Skycat 53
• 5.3 VLT Make Procedure 54
• 5.4 Running 54

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