-silentMode option to start panel invisible starts creating screenshot files after installing patches 6+13 on version 3.10 SP2

mwerksma · Post by **mwerksma** » Wed Feb 06, 2013 1:37 pm

Hello,

We use the -silentMode option in the Manager console to start panels invisible for some time now and it works fine.
-p "Typicals\\Camera\\CameraPTZSilentPanel.pnl" -silentMode

After installing official patches 6+13 on our running version 3.10 SP2 a xxxx.mdi file is created when we start the User Interface from the manager.
The panel works fine but I don't want to print anything.

What can we to disable the automatic screenshot print action?

Thank you.

Marcel Werksma
Siemens Nederland N.V.

leoknipp · Post by **leoknipp** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:41 pm

Hello,

the -silentMode option is used to print panels in the background. It is the correct functionality that the panel will be printed, when it is opened.
Every time a new panel is loaded for the user-interface in silentMode the print process will be started.

For details concerning the silentMode-option please have a look at the WinCC OA online help:
Special functions --> Reporting with Panels (Silent print)

If you want to start some actions in the background without displaying information normally a CTRL-manager is used.

Best Regards
Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist

mwerksma · Post by **mwerksma** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 7:30 am

Hello Leopold,

Thank you for your reaction but nothing was 'printed' before the patches.
I have read the silent panel help file but I could not find a way to turn it off.

I know that normally a CTRL manager is used but we had some problems
and the panel we start contains an ActiveX with events which cannot be
done with a CTRL script so is there a way to disable the printing?

Regards,

Marcel Werksma
Siemens Nederland N.V.

leoknipp · Post by **leoknipp** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:20 am

Hello,

there is no possibility to turn this functionality off because it is the implented and expected behaviour.
Maybe you can avoid priinting by defining another printer as default printer, e.g. a PDF-writer.

If the print-job was not started before installing the patches, this might be a bug which was corrected with the patches.

Best Regards
Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist

mkoller · Post by **mkoller** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 11:59 am

If you run the "silent" UI without ever wanting to use its printing functionality, you can workaround the printout start by making sure that the panel init script does not end, e.g. use a delay(999999); at the end. The printout functionality waits until no more script threads are running.

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