The 'Viewer' page allows you to define the application, to use to view the files, generated by this profile.
The meanings of the several controls are:
This command will be executed, if you choose the menu item 'Build|View Output' and there is no document opened in TeXnicCenter.
This command can be either a command line or a DDE-command (see below)
This command will be executed, if you choose the menu item 'Build|View Output' and there is a document opened in TeXnicCenter.
This command can be either a command line or a DDE-command (see below)
This command will be executed, if you choose the menu item 'Build|Build Output' directly before the build process will be started. You have only to specify this command, when using a viewer, which opens the files exclusively, which means, that no application can access the output file with write access, while opened in the viewer (i.e. Adobe AcrobatReader works that way). If LaTeX would try to regenerate this output, it would fail, because it cannot overwrite the allready existing file. If you specify a command here, the file will be closed in the viewer, before LaTeX will be executed.
This command can be either a command line or a DDE-command (see below)
All the commands on this page can be normal command lines or DDE commands.
A normal command line will be passed to the application, when starting it, like you would do it, when calling it from a command line like the dos box.
DDE means "Dynamic Data Exchange", which is an old windows mechanism for interprocess communication (IPC) - once the viewer has been started, TeXnicCenter can communicate with the running instance of the viewer by sending im DDE commands. Not every application supports DDE commands. To get information about the DDE commands supported by an application, take a look in the application's manual. A good example for a viewer, supporting DDE is the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
The meanings of the fields of a command are:
You can use place holders to specify dynamic arguments.
Most applications are expecting the topic "System" here.