Difference between revisions of "SHIPHarbour Master"

Revision as of 15:43, 2 August 2016

In PC-based environments, the SHIPHarbour Master application provides connection management and SHIPBridge Protocol abstraction to PC applications such as the SHIPTide GUI authoring tool as well as SHIPCrane and SeaShell programming tools.

SHIPHarbour Master can be launched manually, but is launched automatically when any of the SHIP PC-based tools require it. It sits in the system tray on Windows:

SHIPHarbour Master has an increasingly useful set of features all by itself. Minimizing the app back to the system tray shows this note:

You can write your own applications to talk to the 'SHIPHarbour Master application. For example, you may want to integrate functionality similar to the SHIPCrane programming tool into your own manufacturing framework rather than using the SHIPCrane tool directly.

SHIPHarbor Master exposes a socket interface to PC-based applications, and supports simultaneous connected applications and simultaneous connected devices. The socket interface is defined in the SHIPHarbor API documentation.