Documentation: kitchi |
Q: Is there a commandline option for developers?A:Yes.Find the program called kitchiConfig.exe. It may be located at: C:\Program Files\PW2 Computer Services\kitchi You can open a configuration file immediately using one parameter. Example: kitchiConfig C:\myconfig.kcx If you have purchased kitchi, in addition to running kitchi as a background service, you can run one or more datastreams from the commandline. You may buy kitchi cheaply from either the Kagi Store or from within the application. Command-line example: kitchiConfig C:\myconfig.kcx RunDataStreams myDataStreamName This will run all DataStreams named "myDataStream" one time and exit -- there will be no popup windows-forms or DOS-boxes. With this option, you could have your program write out a delimited file and call kitchi from the command-line to send your data to an LED sign when needed. You can have one or many start/stop delimiting tags in your datafile. Some useful options for developers are available by right-clicking a "schedule-node" -- there you will find options that will help you safely use kitchiService and commandline-kitchiConfig concurrently, without stepping on each other as they write to an LED sign. With the command-line option, you could have kitchiService run normal news-headlines, and occasionally call kitchiConfig from the command-line to break through with data from your caller-ID program or other system info. (Temporarily break through with up to 110 bytes of data by running a datastream that writes to Betabrite/Alpha file '0' (file zero instead of file 'A') -- have your application wait 30 seconds or so and then run a datastream that sends a special:blank input to file '0' which will resume what was running on file 'A'-- I'll try to work on some documentation for this. For now, if you are interested in this, send me your questions by email (application about-box) and I can provide a some more detail. You will have to make your own serial-port monitoring program to watch for caller-ID events and then write to a delimited text file and then call kitchiConfig to read your file and send the data to file "0" of the LED sign -- wait 30 seconds then call a datastream to send input:special:blank to file "0" of the LED sign. As time allows, I'll also try to make a serial-port monitoring program. |
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