User`s manual
Table Of Contents
- Preliminary remarks
- Introduction
- New functions
- Installation
- Best practice
- Requirements
- Used ports
- Setup
- Upgrade from Apollo 1.3 to Apollo 1.4
- Upgrade from Apollo 1.4 to Apollo 1.4SR1
- Upgrading from Apollo 1.4 to Apollo 1.5
- Upgrading from Apollo 1.5 to Apollo 1.6
- Upgrading from Apollo 1.6 to Apollo 1.7
- Upgrading from Apollo 1.7 to Apollo 1.8
- Upgrading from Apollo 1.8 to Apollo 1.9
- Upgrading the Display Wall configuration
- Control Room Configurator
- Viewer
- Concept
- Apollo 1.9 Viewers
- Limitations
- Memory requirements (minimal RAM size)
- Communication memory
- Requirements
- Steps required to configure the FRG Viewer
- Steps required to configure the Visu Viewer
- Steps required to configure the Cottus Viewer
- Steps required to configure the VNC Viewer
- Steps required to configure the ProViewer
- Steps required to configure the Web Viewer
- Steps required to configure the MPEG Viewer
- Steps required to configure the VTplus Viewer
- Launching Viewer
- Controlling Viewers
- VNC Viewer
- Explorer
- Starting the Explorer
- Explorer User Interface
- Object Tree
- Source Tree View
- Explorer workspace
- Explorer menu bar
- Help menu
- Remote Desktop menu
- Layout Selector menu
- Explorer tool bar
- Device Manager in the Explorer
- Explorer Context Menu
- Drag&Drop functionality
- Layout Editor
- Desktop Server
- Project Backup
- Command Interface
- Device command Interface
- Desktop command Interface
- Viewer command Interface
- Apollo Explorer command interface
- Apollo Layout Editor command interface
- Apollo Layout Selector command interface
- Apollo Remote Desktop command interface
- Apollo Database Convertor command interface
- Apollo Window Detector command interface
- Control Room Bus services
- Control Room Bus
- Serial command interface
- TCPIP command interface
- Application management
- License management
- Time synchronization
- Log file
- Security Provider
- Defining accessGroups
- Configuration of restricted objects
- Permissions
- Restrictions for regions
- Restrictions for layouts
- Restrictions for shortcuts
- Restrictions for advanced menus
- Window Properties|Description
- Window Properties|Sizable
- Window Properties|Always on Top
- Window Properties|Visible
- Edit|Invisible Windows
- Edit|Keyboardinput
- Edit|CommandLine
- Edit|Permissions
- Edit|SaveLayout
- Customized configuration and uninstallation of Apollo
- Soap API Service
- Appendix
- Hotline
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8.3 Layout Editor menus...................................................................................................................................290
8.3.1 File menu ...........................................................................................................................................290
8.3.2 Edit menu...........................................................................................................................................291
8.3.3 Properties menu ................................................................................................................................293
8.3.4 Window menu ...................................................................................................................................304
8.3.5 Favorites menu ..................................................................................................................................304
8.3.6 Tools menu.........................................................................................................................................306
8.3.7 Settings menu....................................................................................................................................307
8.3.8 Help menu..........................................................................................................................................309
8.4 Working with the Layout Editor .................................................................................................................310
8.4.1 Loading layouts and shortcuts ..........................................................................................................310
8.4.2 Defining regions.................................................................................................................................312
8.4.3 Defining shortcuts in the database...................................................................................................312
8.4.4 Defining layouts.................................................................................................................................313
8.4.5 Preloading viewers............................................................................................................................321
8.4.6 Valid command line options .............................................................................................................326
9 Desktop Server.................................................................................................................................. 327
9.1 Login............................................................................................................................................................328
9.2 Launching the Desktop Server ...................................................................................................................328
9.2.1 Starting the Desktop Server manually..............................................................................................328
9.3 Closing the Desktop Server ........................................................................................................................329
9.4 Saving layouts in the database..................................................................................................................329
10 Project Backup ................................................................................................................................ 331
10.1 General......................................................................................................................................................332
10.2 Creating the backup file...........................................................................................................................333
10.3 Restoring an Apollo project .....................................................................................................................336
11 Command Interface ........................................................................................................................ 337
11.1 Device command Interface......................................................................................................................338
11.2 Desktop command Interface....................................................................................................................341
11.3 Viewer command Interface .....................................................................................................................342
11.4 Apollo Explorer command interface........................................................................................................342
11.5 Apollo Layout Editor command interface................................................................................................342
11.6 Apollo Layout Selector command interface ............................................................................................343
11.7 Apollo Remote Desktop command interface..........................................................................................343
11.8 Apollo Database Convertor command interface.....................................................................................344
11.9 Apollo Window Detector command interface.........................................................................................344
12 Control Room Bus services ............................................................................................................. 345
12.1 Control Room Bus.....................................................................................................................................346