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To display camera boxes windows (windows with video images) one of the following modes is in useused:

1. The Active camera mode. Only the active camera box window is displayed in the Monitor interface boxwindow.

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   To make the camera box window active, left-click it. A camera box window is switched to the active mode using another Video surveillance monitor. So, when the Active camera display mode is in useused, more than one Monitor object is to should be created in the system. If only one Monitor object is created and the Active camera display mode is selected for it, then surveillance windows won’t be displayed on the monitor. Video from the camera selected on the Map or Operator Protocol protocol created based on the basis of the same Display object as the Monitor object Video surveillance monitor object is also displayed on the Video surveillance monitor in the Active camera mode.

   
   

2. The Alarms Alarm cameras mode. The boxes windows of the alarm cameras are displayed in the Monitor interface boxwindow.
3. The List mode. Camera boxes windows are displayed in the Monitorbox according window according to the selected layout.

Functions available in the List mode:

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The control panel is displayed in the Monitor interface box window and enables the following operations:

1. Select the number of the displayed cameras;
2. Set and use the layouts of cameras;
3. Control the slideshow.

Current date and time are also displayed on the control panel.

Slideshow is used for a successive close-up displaying display of camera boxes windows on the Monitor. Slideshow is performed with the help of the buttons on the toolbar of the Monitor in two ways:

1. Manually. Buttons for switching to the previous or next camera box window are in useused.
2. Automatically. Switching to the next camera box window is performed automatically in a set period of time.

To set the display mode for camera boxeswindows, do the following:

1. Go to the settings panel for of the Monitor interface boxobject.
   
2. To activate enable the Active camera mode, set the Active camera switch radio button in the Basic settings tab (1).
3. To activate enable the Alarm cameras mode, set the Alarm cameras switch radio button in the Basic settings tab (2). As a result, the Min field is field will be available.

4. In the Max field, specify the required maximum number of cameras boxes which are to camera windows that should be displayed on the Monitor in the Alarm cameras or List mode (3). If the number of alarm cameras exceeds the maximum onenumber, then displaying the display of the camera boxeswindows, the alarms on which have been were registered earlier, is stopped. 

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   The Monitor object is set for operation with the maximum number of alarm cameras, equal to 5five. Boxes The windows of 4 four alarm cameras are displayed in the Monitor box window. Alarms Alarm events on these cameras have been were registered in the following sequence: Camera 1, Camera 2, Camera 3 and Camera4Camera 4. When alarm has been is registered on three more cameras, seven cameras are alarmed at the same time. This exceeds a the maximum acceptable number, so the displaying display of Camera 1 and Camera 2 boxes windows is stopped.

   If the number of cameras is less than the maximum or not specified, then camera windows fill the maximum available space of the Monitor.

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   In order for the camera windows in the Monitor to be displayed as symmetrical boxes folds (1, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, etc.), it is necessary to add the TrySquareLayout registry key (see Registry keys reference guide).

   
   

5. If the Alarm cameras mode is selected, then in the Min field, specify the required minimum layout number of cameras to be displayed on the Monitor layout of the Video surveillance monitor (4). If the number of the alarm cameras is less than a the minimum one, then less than minimum boxes of cameras are displayed on the Monitor while size of boxes stays according to the Min field. The following layouts number, the Monitor will display fewer cameras than specified in the Min field. The fold of the Monitor will correspond to the Min field. The following folds (number of camera boxeswindows) are available: 1, 4, 9, etc.
   If there is no alarm, and if the default value of 0 (zero) is set for the Min parameter parameter, the camera boxes windows are not displayed in the Monitor box window. By default, the Min field is empty.

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   The Monitor object is set for operation with the minimum number of alarm cameras, equal to 3 three. Boxes Windows of 5 five alarm cameras are displayed in the Monitor box window. When the alarm on 4 four cameras is stopped in the consequence sequence: Camera 1, Camera 2, Camera 3 and Camera 4, one camera is in the alarm mode. This is less than a the minimum number, so Camera 5 is will be displayed on the Monitor in a size corresponding to layout with 4 camera boxes , and the Monitor will switch to the four-fold display.

   
   

6. To activate enable the List mode, set the List switch radio button in the Basic settings tab (5).

7. If necessary, specify the required value (in seconds) of automatic slideshow for of the camera boxes windows in the Slideshow field (6). The default camera boxes windows scroll interval is 3 second. If you enter 0 in the field, the default value will be applied. The maximum possible value is 600 seconds.

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   This This setting is relevant only if the toolbar is in use in the List mode when the toolbar is used.

   
   

8. To save all the changes, click the Apply button (7).

 The display mode for of camera boxes windows is now configured.