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
6. Viewer
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6.1 Concept
Viewers are applications running on the display wall with their windows showing different contents such as vid-
eos, video text, Internet pages, or applications on different screens or display walls.
A bitmap may cover the entire content of the viewer window (blanking) or information (text and/or logo) can
overlay the content at specific positions. Up to 4 so-called “In Display Captions” (IDC) can be defined for each
viewer.
While text can be entered freely and as desired, the available bitmaps for the blanking mode and the IDCs are
managed for all viewers in the ServerData\Globals.ini file. Text colors, background colors, and character size
are defined in this file as well.
Every viewer can be launched with individual parameters and in several instances. The mandatory Ident pa-
rameter is used to access and control the respective viewer. The viewer application cannot be launched at all
without a specified Ident parameter! The Ident parameter has to be unique!
Start parameters are either defined in the shortcut or passed via the command line when launching the com-
mand line interface.
The optional Source parameter defines the actual content of the respective viewer window and can be, e.g., a
Web address (Web Viewer), a video source (FRG Viewer), or the name of a client workstation (Cottus Viewer).
The viewer application is started with a gray window if the Source parameter has not been defined.
The parameters applicable to each viewer are listed with the respective viewer descriptions.
As mentioned above, the respective viewer is controlled with the Ident parameter. The properties of an already
launched viewer can be modified using the properties dialog box or the command line interface.
The following functions are supported from within all viewer applications:
• Hide/show of viewer window title bar
• Hide/show of viewer window status bar
• Hide/show of actual viewer window content
• Window content overlay with up to 4 informative contents (text and/or logo)
Additional parameters can be controlled depending on the type of viewer.
Settings selected for a viewer are saved in an *.ini file and are applied to the viewer when launched again. Since
these configuration settings are not only viewer-specific but also user-specific, these files are saved in the re-
spective user folder (Windows NT: ….\WinNT\Profile\User Name or. Windows 2000:… \Documents and
Settings\User Name), using the subfolder … \Local Settings\Application Data\Apollo).