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The Button object is a child object of the Camera system object and is used to display the Button over the a button on top of the video image received from the parent camera. This page describes how to configure the appearance of a Buttonbutton, as well as how to choose the action that will occur occurs when you click the Button is clickedbutton.

The Buttons display in the Video The button display in the video surveillance monitor  must must be enabled beforehand. If no Button objects are object is created in the system, they are not a button isn't displayed.

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titleAttention!

Several Buttons can be created for the Camera. You can create several Button objects for the Camera object. In this case, the preview window will display displays all created  Buttonsbuttons, and the setting described below will be is applied only to the current (selected in the objects tree)  Button, i.e., each Button button, that is, each button must be configured separately.

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To configure the Button object, do the following:

  1. Go to the Hardware tab of the System settings
    2.  dialog
  2. window
    3. (1)
  3. .
  4. Create the Button object on the basis of the Camera
    5.  object (2)
  5. object.
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  6. Configure the position and display of
    7. the Button in the Surveillance
  7. the button in the surveillance window:
      the
      1. The position of the top left corner of the
      2. Button
      1. button is set by
      3. the 
      1. the X and Y fields (
      4. 3
      1. 1). X
      5.  is
      1. is the horizontal indent from the left border as a percentage,
      6.  
      1. and Y
      7.  is
      1. is the vertical indent from the top border as a percentage. For example, if you set 50 and 50, then the left top corner of the
      8. Button
      1. button will be in the middle of
      9. the Surveillance
      1. thesurveillance window.
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      10. in the Width and Height fields (4
      1. In the Width and Height fields (2), set the size of the button as a percentage of the size of the
      11. Surveillance
      1. surveillance window.
      12. set the 
      1. Set the Rotation angle
      13.  
      1. (3) of the
      14. Button
      1. button in degrees from -180 to 180. By default, it is assumed that the button isn't rotated, the angle is zero
      15. (5)
      1. .
      16. set the 

      1. Set the Transparency level

      17.  of

      1.  of the

      18. Button

      1. button as a percentage (

      19. 6

      1. 4). The feature of this setting: the real transparency

      20. will be

      1. is displayed in the preview area (

      21. 7

      1. 5) only when transparency is being edited with the slider. The rest of the time, the

      22. Button

      1. button is completely opaque during

      23. configuring

      1. configuration.
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        You can configure the size and position of the

      24. Button

      1. button not only by entering values

      25. ,

      1. but also manually. To do this, in the preview area, after clicking the

      26. Button

      1. button, you can:

      27. drag
        • Drag the
      28. Button
        • button with the mouse
      29. ;
        • .
      30. stretch
        • Stretch or shrink the
      31. Button,
        • button and rotate it, using the green anchor points on its perimeter.

        You can fine-tune the

      32. Button

      1. button size and rotation angle manually: when Shift is pressed and when you drag the green circle with the mouse, the

      33. Button will change

      1. button changes only its size. When Ctrl is pressed, the

      34. Button will change

      1. button changes only its angle. When you press Shift+Ctrl

      35. are pressed

      1. , the

      36. Button won

      1. button doesn't change.

      37. set the 

      1. Set the Drawing order

      38.  of

      1.  of the configured

      39. Button

      1. button in the corresponding field if several

      40. Buttons

      1. Button objects are created for

      41. one 

      1. one Camera

      42.  

      1. object (

      43. 8

      1. 6). The setting determines the order in which the

      44. Buttons

      1. buttons are drawn in the

      45. Surveillance

      1. surveillance window.

    46. Select the
      47.  Button action—what will happen when the Operator clicks the Button in the Monitor (9)
    47. appearance of the button (7):
      1. Click the Image button.
      2. Select the shape of the button in the Select image for button window.
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      3. From the Color drop-down list, select the color of the button (for the Clicker button type only).
    48. Select button type (8):
      1. Clicker.
      2. Radio button.
    49. Select the Button action (9)—what happens when the operator clicks the button in the video surveillance monitor:
      1. Switch between the video images of the cameras. The cameras that
      50. will be
      1. are controlled by the
      51. Button
      1. button must be added to the Monitor window (
      52. see 
      1. see Selecting and configuring video cameras), otherwise, you won’t be able to switch between the video images when you click the
      53. Button
      1. button.
      2. Execute macros.
      54. The macros must be created
      1. You must create macros beforehand (see Creating and using macros).
      2. No action.
      55. From the Parameters drop-down list (10), select a specific action when clicking the Button. Possible
    55. Select the button parameters (10):
      1. The Pressed drop-down list—possible values are determined by
      56. what
      1. the action
      57. was
      1. that you selected in the previous step: it can be both available macros and the list of cameras between which you can switch.
      58. If
      1. The Released drop-down list (active only if you select the Radio button button type)—available macros.
    59. On the Advanced settings tab, if necessary, set
      60. the 
    60. the Button label
      61.  in
    61.  in the corresponding field (11). To display a default label for the
      62.  Button depending
    62. button depending on the selected action, click
      63. the 
    63. the Default
      64.  button
    64.  button (12). In this case, the label will contain the name of the camera, macro, or current object.
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      In the

      65.  Video

    65. interface of the video surveillance monitor

      66.  interface

    66. , the label is displayed only as a tooltip when you hover the cursor over the

      67.  Button

    67. button.

    68. Click the
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    69. Apply button.

    As a result, the Monitor will the monitor will display the  Button over button on top of the video image received from the  Camera on camera, on the basis of which this  Button was createdbutton was created.

    You can configure the mode of displaying the button in the video surveillance monitor using the parameter of the AllowHideActionButtons key of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AxxonSoft\PSIM\Video registry. To always display a button, set AllowHideActionButtons=0 (see Registry keys reference guide. For the information on working with the registry, see Working with Windows OS registry).

    Configuring a button to display in the video surveillance monitoris complete.

    Note
    titleAttention!

    When you upgrade Axxon PSIM 1.0 to Axxon PSIM 2.0, the button changes position, since the coordinates in version 2.0 are set for the center of the button and not for the upper left corner. This is done so that the button can be partially hidden behind the screen.