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CarouselScreenSaver.exe.config
We recently upgraded to Carousel Enterprise, and ran the MSI package that adds the Carousel Screen Saver option to the desktop. Once the server name and channel is entered in the Screen Saver Settings and utilizing the “Test” and "Preview" button in the Screen Saver window, it works perfectly, bringing up what we have it set for. Yet when executing the "CarouselScreenSaver.scr" file directly (under C:\windows\system32), it comes up with the DEMO screen.
The reason we are doing this is because we use the system to display conference room reservations on monitors throughout our facility, yet we wanted to create a way for any of our users to be able to bring it up the screen saver on their desktops at the spur of the moment. To do this, we copied the "CarouselScreenSaver.scr" as a desktop shortcut. Yet when we execute it, as I stated before, it comes up with the Tightrope DEMO screen instead of what it should, and as it displays under the “Preview” button in Screen Saver settings.
I have tried to modify the "CarouselScreenSaver.exe.config", but to no avail. How do I fix it so that if I use this shortcut on the desktop to run and execute the "CarouselScreenSaver.scr" file so that it will come up just as it does when testing under the "Preview" button in the Screen Saver setting screen, which works fine?
The reason we are doing this is because we use the system to display conference room reservations on monitors throughout our facility, yet we wanted to create a way for any of our users to be able to bring it up the screen saver on their desktops at the spur of the moment. To do this, we copied the "CarouselScreenSaver.scr" as a desktop shortcut. Yet when we execute it, as I stated before, it comes up with the Tightrope DEMO screen instead of what it should, and as it displays under the “Preview” button in Screen Saver settings.
I have tried to modify the "CarouselScreenSaver.exe.config", but to no avail. How do I fix it so that if I use this shortcut on the desktop to run and execute the "CarouselScreenSaver.scr" file so that it will come up just as it does when testing under the "Preview" button in the Screen Saver setting screen, which works fine?
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Inappropriate?Randy, this is a little outside of my area of expertise, I will hazard a guess, and I will poke the person who would know the answer.
I THINK that the way it works is that the first time the screen saver launches, it copies the data in the config file into the preferences for the application. Subsequent launches of the application don't look at the config file at all.
Your best bet would be to modify the config file and try it on a machine that you have not ran our screen saver on before.
Let me see if I can get Scott to give you a better answer, he would know for sure. -
Inappropriate?The CarouselScreenSaver.exe.config file only contains the defaults for the screensaver, the actual data is saved to the user profile directory (usually somethine like C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Tightrope_Media_Systems\...). This is why your changes are not having an affect.
However, for enterprise deployment cases, this is a problem, you can't deploy a configuration to all your systems. We will look for a file CarouselScreenSaver.cfg in the same directory as the .scr file (usually C:\Windows\System32), that contains a text configuration that you can use to override the normal settings for initial deployment.
The contents of this file should be two lines that look like:
URL=demo.trms.com
Channel=0
where demo.trms.com should be changed to your carousel server and the 0 should be changed to the channel ID (not name) of the channel you want to display. You can get the channel ID by clicking on the Configuration -> Channels, then click the icon for a preview of the channel:
and then use the number you see after "ChannelID=":
Hope this helps!
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