Widget Player

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Widget Player is an utility used for running a widget as a standalone application. It is useful for:

launching widget inside a touch panel connected to an industrial or home automation controller;
starting some important monitoring widget without running AggreGate Client itself.

Command Line Options

Widget Player is launched by running widget_player executable file (its extension is OS-dependent) with the following parameters:

 

widget_player server_address server_port username password widget_context_path [other_options]

 

server_address is IP or host name of the AggreGate Server (e.g. localhost);
server_port is AggreGate Server port accepting client connections (6460 by default);
username is the name of AggreGate Server user account to use for logging in to the server;
password is AggreGate Server user account password;
widget_context_path is full path of context of the widget to be launched, e.g. users.admin.widgets.myCustomWidget;

Other options

-c default_context_path

Specifis full path of the default context that will be used during widget operation, e.g. users.admin.devices.myDevice. This parameter is relevant only for relative widgets.

-f

Enable full-screen mode.

Full Screen Mode

Any widget may be expanded to full screen by pressing F11 key.

Full screen mode is disabled by pressing ESC or F11.