The XicTools Accessories

The XicTools accessories are programs provided in the optional accessories distribution file. These are open-source programs, and the source code distribution can be found in the free software archive of wrcad.com.

The programs in the accessories distributions are the following.

mozy
A stand-alone help/www browser. This can be used to browse the Xic and WRspice help databases, or general HTML and image files. It supports HTML-3.2 and a few 4.0 features, so is no longer much good as a web browser, but it works well as a help system and viewer.

xeditor
A stand-alone text editor window, as descriptd in 3.13.2. This is one polymorph of a widget that can be configured as a file browser or email client as well.

httpget
A program for retrieving files served from a remote FTP or HTTP server.

hlp2html
A program for creating standard HTML files from help database (.hlp) files.

hlp2latex
A utility for extracting LaTeX versions of the help text saved in (.hlp) files.

hlpsrv
A bridge program to allow access to a help database through a web server.

fcpp
A post-processor for FastCap and FasterCap (from FastFieldSolvers.com) output, which finds and prints the capacitance values.

lstpack and lstunpack
Utilities to convert FastCap input files between the packed (single file) and unpacked (multiple file) formats. The Whiteley Research release of FastCap and FasterCap from FastFieldSolvers.com understand the packed format, other versions do not.

These tools and the supporting libraries are provided in the hope that they may be useful, under the GNU Library General Public License. This is open-source software, with no guarantees whatsoever, use at your own risk.

The graphics support library was originally written as a toolkit-independent layer between the application and the GUI. It is used in all graphical XicTools programs. Support was available for GTK-1 and GTK-2, Windows native WIN32, and QT. Currently, support is provided for GTK-2, Qt5, and Qt6.