Launcher Manual

Launcher is a tool for launching products such as Canvus and Showcase. It displays as a menu on your video wall and comprises a series of tiles that users can tap to launch the required product.

When used in conjunction with features such as the Exit Showcase widget in MT Showcase, Launcher provides a quick and easy method for switching between MultiTaction products. It also provides logging functional ity and monitors product processes, restarting them if they crash.

Launcher is included in the MultiTaction base image . Other customers must install Launcher manually. You must then configure Launcher plus any pipelines that you want to include.

Contents:

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. What is a pipeline?
  • 1.2. Deployment summary
  • 1.3. MultiTaction support
• 2. Install Launcher
  • 2.1. Install on Ubuntu application computers
  • 2.2. Install from an installation package
  • 2.3. Install using the apt command
  • 2.4. Install on Windows application computers
• 3. Configure Launcher
  • 3.1. Default and custom versions of the configuration files
  • 3.2. Edit the custom version of launcher.ini
  • 3.3. Edit the custom pipeline configuration files
  • 3.4. Log files
• 4. Start or exit Launcher
• 5. Showcase customizations
  • 5.1. Launch a specific Showcase app
  • 5.2. Launch the Showcase welcome screen
  • 5.3. Display an Exit button on the Showcase welcome screen
• 6. Canvus customizations