Overview ->
User Interface ->
File Menu ->
Connect Application...
Dialog to connect Applications
This dialog after pressing Connect in the
Connect Application file browser
and is used to specify the communication type and the command-line options
of the application program which shall be connected to the
API.
To finally connect the binary, press the Connect push button.
Dialog Items of the Connect Dialog
- Communication Type
Use these radio buttons to decide which type is used for the
communication between daVinci and the application.
- UNIX-Pipes
For this communication type the application binary is started and connected
to daVinci with two UNIX pipes. This was the behaviour of former
versions of daVinci and the option will be selected at startup of
the dialog, if the command-line
option -server hasn't been set at startup of daVinci.
Windows NT: For Windows NT UNIX-Pipes can be selected but in most
cases won't work, because the file event concept in Tcl/Tk for UNIX pipes
doesn't work as expected. Therefore on Windows NT TCP/IP Sockets will be
selected at startup of the dialog and UNIX-Pipes shouldn't be used, because
it may hang daVinci or as a worst case hang the system.
- TCP/IP Sockets
For this communication type the application binary is started and connected
to daVinci as a TCP/IP client. The option will be selected at startup
of the dialog, if the command-line
option -server has been set at startup of daVinci.
If this option is selected, daVinci will automatically add the
reserved daVinci default port 2542 or the port number which has
been supplied on command-line with
option -server into the Socket
Port entry and add the Command-Line Option -client :<port> with
the above port number. This is done, because this is the setting necessary to
connect the graph editor application
as a socket client. Remove this option if it doesn't work for the application
you want to connect.
- Socket Port
This text entry field is only active, if Communication Type is set to
TCP/IP Sockets and it can be used to specify the port on which daVinci
and the application will communicate. This need not be the same port, which
has been set with command-line
option -server. If the port number is changed, daVinci will wait
for the application to connect on the new port and after the application has
been disconnected it restarts listening on the old server port.
- Command-Line Options
This text entry field can be used to pass additional command-line
options to the connected binary.
- Connect
Push button to connect the choosen binary file specified in the
Connect Application file browser.
- Cancel
Push button to close the dialog without performing any action.
- Reset
Push button to reset the fields of the dialog to the initial settings.
- Help
Push button to start the
online help system
with this page.
daVinci V2.1.1 Online Documentation - Page update: Oct 21, 1998