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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Layout Selector
The Layout Selector is integrated into the Explorer. It allows easily loading and removing layouts from a re-
motely linked Display Wall. Layouts have to be defined in the Layout Editor and saved in a database first.
If required, the user interface of the Explorer can be adapted to look like the user interface of the previous stand-
alone application Layout Selector.
Device Manager
The Device Manager is integrated into the Explorer and offers to control the parameters of the devices. The
following devices are supported: Barco Reality 6xxx, Barco Graphics 6xxx, analog poly-silicone projector units of
the rear projection systems S70, Atlas67CS4, Atlas84CS4, digital poly-silicone projector units of the rear projection
systems OverView-mP50 and Atlas67C4, Hermes D2D and Hermes V2A, digital Visu, digital Phoenix, and some
third party devices.
Project Backup
Apollo Project Backup uses the Windows Backup tool. The customized script ensures that all relevant files are
included into the backup (the files are stored on multiple locations). If e.g. the hard disk of the Desktop Servers
crashes, the Apollo project can easily be restored by means of the backup file.
Viewer
Viewers are applications running on the Display Wall and showing the contents of e.g. Internet pages, or digital
media streams, analog video etc. Like all other application, the viewer windows can be integrated in a layout.
Desktop Command, Device Command, Viewer Command
Console applications used for sending commands to a Desktop server, to devices, to viewers from the command
prompt.
Serial Command, TCPIPCommand
Console applications used for receiving commands via the serial COM interface or via the Ethernet interface. .
Remote Pointer
This is a client application which provides a GUI to move the cursor and to send keystrokes to a remote computer.
SOAP API Service
This component is a development interface to integrate Apollo in customer applications. It is based on the Soap
SDK 3.0 of Microsoft.