In order to spawn XfacePlayer from a different application (or from MS-DOS Command Prompt) here are the command line arguments.

C:\Program Files\Xface\Bin\XfacePlayer.exe -h
spawns the application and brings the help message.

Usage: XfacePlayer [/h] [/s] [FAP Filename] [WAV Filename] [FDP Filename] [FDP Path]

-h or /h is help.
-s or /s is server mode where XfacePlayer starts immediately listening to designated ports and there are no controls and the menus are disabled. Default listening port is 50011 and cannot be modified if you have spawned XfacePlayer in server mode, since the menu is disabled by default. You can also start the application normally and use menu item (or F8) to disable the controls. Pressing F8 when the controls are inactive re-activates them.

Rest of the parameters are trivial enough, just note that they are defaulted to the following values;
FAP Filename: "../Faps/joy.fap"
WAV Filename: "../Faps/sample.wav"
FDP Filename: "alice.fdp"
FDP Path: "../Faces/alice/"
Note that they should be passed in the correct order, i.e. if you want to pass FDP Path you should pass the other parameters as well.

Koray Balci (January 2005)