Control Center - Introduction

Protection! Control Center offers a central location for Product Management, License Generation, License Maintenance, and generation of the corresponding code Snippets.


Command Line

Proteciton! Control Center could be launched via command line using the following parameters:


usage: ControlCenter [options]  [license]
-deactivate                   show Deactivation Wizard
-deactivation_info            show deactivation information
-help                         print this message
-sales                        keep sales functionality  only
-storage <storage file>       product storage to work with
-verbose                      show detailed information  during startup

Example: ControlCenter -storage DemoCalc.products


Control Center - User Interface

The following topics briefly describe the main UI elements of Protection! Control Center.

Screens

All the functionality of Control Center is exposed through the following set of Screens:


Menu, Toolbar and Status bar

The main menu is at the top of Protection! Control Center. For an explanation of each menu, see 'Protection! menus' in the index of online help.

Context Menus

Functionality available through the Main menu is also available through pop up context menus. A list of options in the context menus varies depending on the context of the action and the item selected. Context menus could be invoked with a secondary mouse button (usually the right-hand button). Computers with a single-button mouse may use a keyboard-click combination, as with a Control-click in the Macintosh OS.

Toolbar

The main toolbar is displayed at the top of the Protection! Control Center under the menu bar. It is composed of smaller toolbars grouped by functionality. You cannot modify the toolbar display. You also can view the toolbar button name and a brief description of the button by moving the mouse cursor over the button. The button name appears below the button, and a brief description of the button appears in the main status bar. Available features vary slightly by Protection! edition.

Status Bar

The main status bar is displayed at the bottom of the Protection! Control Center Screen and keeps you updated on any operations, their results and the screen's status.