Website builder and server notification tool. It uses information provided in the Form and Description objects in a model or associated with a data file in order to build a site with contents list and index for all files in a specified directory.
The sourceDirectory is where the files to be archived are stored. All files in theis directory which map the specified fileExtensions will be included in the web site.
The targetDirectory should already exist. If you have write access to a web server, this can be the final destination of the site. Otherwise the contents will have to be transferred to a web server once the site is built.
Files matching any element of the fileExtensions string will be included in the site. This string should be a colon delimited list with no spaces, such as ".swc:.asc:.ccm". The order is very important: if two files are found with the smae name but different extensions then the one whose extension comes first in the list will be taken as definitive.
For example, if you are making a morphology archive which includes the same data in both the original neurolucida format and in SWC format with a documentaion header, then the ".swc" entry should come first. Then catacomb will read all the header information from the SWC version and use that to build the site. The Neurolucida data will be included in the site as an alternative version, but not read by Catacomb. If the NL version were first, catacomb would assume this was definitive for the data, and the swc header information would be ignored.
The makeImages option only applies to those components for which there are explicit display functions (as yet, cell morphologies, and anything else with its own user interface component).
Once the site is built (and perhapse copied to a web werver), the next step is to notify someone that it exists. Catacomb will notify any server you specify, but the only one which will understand so far is on neosim.prg. Just fill in the webAddress field with the address of eh web site, select the neuroml server with reset neuroml defaults and click submit. If it works you should get a message saying "submission successful". The site will appear immediately on a site list kept by neuroml.org and should be visited byt the search robot shortpy after.