The SDK package comes with a sample command line pre-session client called the Collaboration Broker Client Example, which calls the included broker client libraries and enables you to join a PCoIP collaboration session. The Collaboration Broker Client API Example demonstrates the success path for joining a PCoIP collaboration session.
Once you have successfully established a session between a Anyware Client and an Anyware host, you can start developing your own Anyware client. To begin, set up your client development environment, as discussed next.
To set up your client development environment:
In order to customize your session client, you must create a client branding package using the HP Custom Branding Package Utility. The HP Custom Branding Package Utility is located in the following location:
To create a custom branding package:
You can customize the branding of your custom session client in several ways by creating a client branding package. These customizations affect the user’s experience once they have connected to their PCoIP session. The following elements can be customized in the session client:
Invoking the Broker Client API is a two-step procedure, where as a first step, the Broker Client Example is built. The second step consists of running either a prebuilt PCoIP binary, or a prebuilt AWS binary.
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Transferring non-HID USB devices from the client to the host is called bridging. Both the Anyware agent on the host machine and the Anyware client must enable bridging before devices can be transferred. Administrators can globally disable USB bridging support, or enforce device whitelists or blacklists, using GPO variables on the host machine. Clients cannot bridge devices that are disallowed by the agent.
The macOS has elements which are part of the operating system user interface and cannot be modified programmatically, as described in the following sections.
The following run-time limitations are enforced by macOS on the application menu (beside the menu apple icon menu):
HP Anyware's support team may request a support file from your system to help troubleshoot and diagnose PCoIP issues.
Customizable Script
This script can be customized, in the case where the log files are located in a different location the script should be updated appropriately.
To create a support file:
The core library allows an application developer to integrate a PCoIP session directly into an application. The core library facilitates connection to a remote host, decoding PCoIP image data directly into an application supplied frame buffer as well as remoting audio, keyboard and mouse events and supported USB devices.
Xencelabs Pen Displays are supported in the locally terminated mode, where peripheral data is processed locally at the Anyware Client. It is also supported in the bridged mode, where peripheral data is sent to the desktop for processing.
Support is available when a connection is initiated from a macOS Client to a Windows Graphics or Standard agent.