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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6.7 Launching Viewer
Viewer require the Ident parameter which has to be defined when creating a shortcut. By means of this short-
cut, viewers can be launched in different ways.
• The shortcut
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shortcut is defined in the Layout Database. In the Apollo Explorer, click on the Start button in the taskbar
and then double click on the
shortcut
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shortcut.
• The shortcut is part of a layout: The viewer launches as soon as the corresponding layout is activated
• The shortcut is directly on the Display Wall. Double click on it to launch the viewer.
• The shortcut is executed by means of the DesktopCmd.exe (e.g. "C:\Program Files\Barco
Apollo\Program\DesktopCmd.exe– -name:Server -Shortcut:"HTML Viewer 1")
To reduce the time for launching the FRG viewer, it is recommended to invisible preload
these viewers and then switch them to visible on demand.
6.7.1 Creating shortcuts
When creating a shortcut for a viewer application, make sure that the Ident parameter is defined as well. The
other parameters are optional.
Enter the environment variable %ApolloData% into the Start in field as input.
The following example shows the properties dialog box of a Web Viewer shortcut:
The Ident parameter is mandatory (here: Web1) used to control the viewer. Additional parameters may be
added.
The parameters are listed in Viewer command Interface