User`s manual

11. Command Interface
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Apollo Rel. 1.9 User's Manual
11.3 Viewer command Interface
Viewer Command Interface is a Windows NT/2000 application converting command line input into control
commands for the viewers.
Start MS-DOS and enter the desired command behind the prompt. The general command syntax is as follows:
viewercmd -name:<Ident> {-<specifier>[:<value>]}
<Ident> The complete device name (as listed in the tree view of the Apollo Explorer)
<specifier> Name of a parameter
<value> Value of a parameter
Please find the list of parameters and their values in Global Viewer Parameters and in the viewer specific sub chap-
ters.
Since Apollo1.7 the viewer buffers all parameters from a command line, or several command lines, until the
command line contains a ‘SourceRequested’ (sr) or ‘SourceConnected’ (sc) parameter. If one of these two pa-
rameters are specified, then all previous parameter including the sr/sc parameter are execute in one cycle!
To connect to a new source, use the source requested parameter in the usual way, specify the new source, and
the viewer will connect to this source! (SourceRequested:<new source>)
Every time you want the viewer to execute the transferred command line parameter, use this command to com-
plete the command line.
Examples:
Make the caption visible:
viewercmd.exe /name:<viewer ident> /CaptionVisible:1 /sc:<some text>
Remove caption, status bar and border:
viewercmd.exe /name:<viewer ident> /CaptionVisible:0 /BorderVisible:0 /StatusBarVisible:0 /sc:<some
text>
11.4 Apollo Explorer command interface
Please see the chapter in the Apollo Explorer section, Valid Command line options
11.5 Apollo Layout Editor command interface
Please see the chapter in the Apollo Layout Editor section.