Starting kbLogger by clicking

The normal way of starting kbLogger is to use the kbLogger icon on the desktop, in the quick launch bar or in the start menu.

After a few seconds, the about dialog is showing.

The About Dialog

You have to click to the "Accept" button to close this dialog and to open kbLogger.

Starting kbLogger from the command line

To control the startup behavior of kbLogger, you can start the program from the command line. For that, open a command line of your choice and navigate to the installation directory of kbLogger. This is necessary, since kbLogger need the installation directory to be the current directory.

Then start kbLogger by the following command:

kbLogger [Options] [project1 ... projectN]

kbLogger will open than all given projects [project1 ... projectN] automatically.

Options:

-A | --AcceptLicense

The license is accepted by you and therefore the DialogAbout is not shown.

-o | --OpenLastProjects

Load all projects which where opened when kbLogger was closed last time. This overrules the list of projects!

-p | --project PROJECT

Loads the project file PROJECT (with the full qualified or relative path).

-s | --start MASTERPROJECT

Loads and starts the project file PROJECT (with the full qualified or relative path). The given project can act as a master project which itself loads and runs other projects. This option can be used only once.

-d | --daemon

kbLogger runs in daemon mode (without GUI). Implies -A.

-l | --log LOGFILE

kbLogger can write internal logs into LOGFILE. Useful for debugging purposes, in special in daemon mode. To log to the command line use -l stdout .

--license LICENSEKEY

kbLogger will use the given license key when contacting a license server (defaults to www.kodeburg.com). Useful when running in daemon mode.

--licenseServer LICENSESERVER

kbLogger will use the given license server to validate the license key (defaults to www.kodeburg.com:33335).

project1 ... projectN

Every additional parameter, which does not match the parameters above, is interpreted as a project to load like with parameter -p.