It also possible to perform headless exports of the Storyboard Design files to the Storyboard Embedded Engine files from a command line or scripting environment.

All of the Storyboard executables will be located in the PATH_TO_INSTALL/Storyboard_Designer/storyboard directories, though on each desktop platform they are named slightly differently

Windows:

..../Storyboard.exe -application com.crank.gdt.ui.gappexport
    model=<PathToGDEFile[,PathToAdditionalGDEFile,...]>
    output=<PathToGAPPFile>

Mac:

..../Storyboard.app/Contents/MacOS/Storyboard -application
    com.crank.gdt.ui.gappexport
    model=<PathToGDEFile[,PathToAdditionalGDEFile,...]>
    output=<PathToGAPPFile>

Linux:

..../Storyboard -application com.crank.gdt.ui.gappexport
     model=<PathToGDEFile[,PathToAdditionalGDEFile,...]>
     output=<PathToGAPPFile>

Note: Storyboard requires a display, so to run in a true headless environment a Virtual frame buffer needs to be setup.

Xvfb :1 -ac -screen 0 1024x768x8 export DISPLAY=:1
    ..../storyboard -application com.crank.gdt.ui.gappexport
    model=<PathToGDEFile[,PathToAdditionalGDEFile,...]>
    output=<PathToGAPPFile>

Where the model is the full path to the Storyboard Designer model file. In the situation where multiple GDE model files are being joined together it is a comma separated list of model files where the first model file will be used for the start screen and the remaining models will be used for additional content. The output parameter specifies the filesystem path where the Storyboard Engine file will be created and the directory containing that file will be used to for the additional resource directories (scripts, images and fonts).

If the gde file that is being selected for export does not reside in the workspace that is going to be used by the comman line exporter, then the export configuration must be stored in the project. This is an option that is availble when modifying the export configuration. The following picture illustrates the selection that needs to be made:

Note that the "Configuration Location" option is set to "Project". If the project resides in the same workspace that the command line exporter will be using, the configuration can be stored in either the workspace or the project

By default the exported gapp file will be compacted and not in a readable format. If a more readable format is desired, then the readable parameter can be passed along the command line such as:

..../Storyboard -application com.crank.gdt.ui.gappexport
     readable
     model=<PathToGDEFile[,PathToAdditionalGDEFile,...]>
     output=<PathToGAPPFile>