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ZINC is a browser plugin that embeds the cmgui visualisation engine.

ZINC has recently been completely re-written as an NPruntime plugin, replacing the old Firefox extension. This plugin should work on a range of browsers (Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome, Safari) and a range of operating systems. This re-write will also move it more in line with current best practices for plugin development.

See tracker item 1354 for more information regarding the development of ZINC NPruntime.

ZINC History

ZINC Road map

Program flow for a Zinc NPRuntime application

Build Instructions

Download & Install

First Download the ZINC plugin.

After following these instructions, ZINC NPruntime should run on both Firefox and Google Chrome.

For 32bit/64bit Linux Users:

Copy libnpzincPlugin.so to mozilla "plugins" folder. This folder is generally located in ~/.mozilla directory.

If the plugins folder does not exist in the mozilla folder, create the plugins folder and copy libnpzincPlugin.so into it.

To uninstall, simply remove libnpzincPlugin.so from the plugins folder.

For Windows users:

Execute ZincPluginInstallation.msi to install. User can choose the Custom option to select directory for the installation.

To uninstall, go to Start -> All Programs -> zinc-plugins -> Uninstall zinc-plugins.

NOTE:

Make sure there is no other Zinc installed on your Firefox and Google Chrome. Please restart Firefox or Google Chrome after the installation.

Opening the example:

To run the example, simply open the html file in the example folder included in this package. Please make sure there is no other Zinc install on your Firefox or Google Chrome before opening the example.