Marratech

Application Sharing

The ANJ E-meeting portal allows for application sharing between users. Start the application you wish to show and place it on your desktop. In the Whiteboard turn on the Lead Page Changes function.


Then click on the Application Sharing button.

Move the Shared Desktop rectangle over the application you want to share. Press Play to start sharing the area under the Shared Desktop rectangle.


To give control of your Shared Desktop are to another participant, select him or her from the Allow Control list. ONLY GIVE CONTROL TO SOMEONE YOU TRUST! Allowing someone to control your computer has serious implications. Never leave your computer unattended when allowing control.


The participant you have given control to will now be able to click the steering wheel icon in the Whiteboard's button bar and take control of the Shared Desktop area.


Marratech uses VNC to make application sharing possible.
This has interesting benefits, such as the ability to use an external VNC server instead of your local computer.

It makes it possible to hold software training on a another computer than your own. This is possible by opening the Options menu item under Tools and selecting the VNC tab. Simply specify an external VNC server and port.


Application Sharing Requires Bandwidth
If you are using it frequently, be sure to use an e-meeting room in which the Whiteboard media is configured for higher bandwidth limits. All participants need to to be on a fast connection to get good results. Using Application Sharing on an Internet connection with low upload speed will of course lead to worsened quality in the audio and video.

Application Sharing Requires More Resources
You may notice that it uses more processor power than the traditional screen capture in Marratech.

Tips:
If you feel your system is too slow when sharing an application, try not sending video at the same time. This will reduce your processor load. Quit any applications that you don't actually need open. Ideally, only run Marratech and the application you want to share.

Sharing a large area will be slower than a small area. Try to limit and optimize what you want to show so that the updates will be faster. However, if you do need to share a large area, you can consider running in Expert mode where each element of the interface has it's own window which can be manipulated separately. (The Viewer tab in the preferences panel is where this setting is found.)

Use the fastest machine to which you have access and you have sufficient memory in the computer doing the sharing. We suggest at least 1 GB of RAM.

Run in 8-bit rather than 16-bit mode. The 8-bit setting is the default and sends less data through the network. This setting is defines under the VNC tab in preferences. Make sure to run the latest version of the client software.

For more information see Application Sharing.