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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6.6 Requirements
Several configuration files have to be modified in addition to the required hardware requirements (e.g., Visu,
BigVideo Card, etc.).
The predefined sources for all viewers are specified in the ServerData\viewersources.ini file; see The
ServerData\viewersources.ini File. A name has to be defined for the video and RGB input cards using the switcher
definition file and the switcher language compiler. The sample file apollo.vsw is included and may be edited
and customized.
The user manual TransForm A Workstation for Windows NT / Windows 2000 lists detailed instructions for the
switcher language compiler.
The VisuBasicConfiguration.ini file has to be adapted for the connected Visu devices
If the screen content of a workstation is to be depicted on the Display Wall using the Cottus Viewer this work-
station has to have the software Proxy Host of the company Funk Software Inc. installed as well as the host
license; see Steps required to configure the Cottus Viewer
The Internet browser Explorer 5.0 has to be installed on the control server of the Display Wall to view Web pages
using the Web Viewer.
Videotext pages require a video text input card for viewing. Cards of the type Hauppage WinTV PCI are supported.
6.6.1 Steps required to configure the FRG Viewer
The BigVideo Card, QuadVideo Card, and the RGB-Input Card digitalize analog video and RGB signals, which
are then displayed and controlled on the display wall using the FRG Viewer.
Names have to be assigned to the TransForm A input cards. This is done with the help of the switcher definition
file.
First, the video hardware configuration (input cards, cables, switcher, etc.) has to be specified in the switcher
definition file and written to the registry using the switcher language compiler.
A simple switcher definition file–- apollo.vsw–- is located in the directory Program Files|Barco
Apollo|Samples|SLC. Modify and rename this file for the specific configuration.
If the switcher language compiler is already installed, the required files are located at
C:\Programs\BARCO\SLC\ or, if the compiler is not installed in the default folder, in the folder indicated during
installation of the compiler. The user manual TransForm A Workstation for Windows NT / Windows 2000 lists
detailed instructions for the switcher language compiler installation.
The file slc.exe is the actual compiler reading the switcher definition file and writing the entries into the registry.
The other files in the folder contain fixed hardware information and may not be modified.
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