How Does Our AmaSeis Internet Display Tool Work?
To keep things as simple as possible, so we chose to use QuickBasic, FTP, and HTML. We begin the process by automatically saving the AmaSeis screen with a screen capture program. There are many screen capture programs available on the Internet, and some are freeware. We chose to use a freeware program called Groone’s Kwik Pik (available at www.groonesworld.com). We run AmaSeis with the window maximized, and we set the program to save the screen to a file called seismograph.gif every five seconds. There is an option in KwikPik to send the GIF file to a server via FTP, but we chose instead to save it to a file on our recording computer because that gave us more control over how we use the FTP commands. We wrote a simple QuickBasic program that uploads the file to a web server every 10 minutes, via FTP. The QuickBasic code is shown in Figure 2, and that code uses commands in a file (ftp_info.txt) that the user creates. A generic example of the ftp_info.txt file is shown in Figure 2. The u
