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

The button display in the Video surveillance monitor must be enabled beforehand. If no Button objects are created in the system, they are not displayed.

To configure the Button object, do the following:

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

   2. Set

the 

10. 1. the Transparency level

 of

11. 1.  of the button as a percentage (6). The feature of this setting: the real transparency is displayed in the preview area (7) only when transparency is being edited with the slider. The rest of the time, the Button is completely opaque during configuration.
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       You can configure the size and position of the button not only by entering values but also manually. To do this, in the preview area, after clicking the button, you can: drag the button with the mouse; stretch or shrink the button and rotate it, using the green anchor points on its perimeter. You can fine-tune the button size and rotation angle manually: when Shift is pressed and when you drag the green circle with the mouse, the button changes only its size. When Ctrl is pressed, the button changes only its angle. When Shift+Ctrl are pressed, the button doesn't change.

    2. Set

the 

12. 1. the Drawing order

 of

13. 1.  of the configured button in the corresponding field if several Button objects are created for

one 

14. 1. one Camera object (8). The setting determines the order in which the buttons are drawn in the Surveillance window.

15. Select
the 
16. the Button action—what will happen when the
Operator
17. operator clicks the button
 
18. in the Video surveillance monitor (9):
    1. Switch between the video images of the cameras. The cameras that are controlled by the button must be added to the Monitor (
see 
19. 1. see Selecting and configuring video cameras), otherwise, you won’t be able to switch between the video images when you click the button.
    2. Execute macros. You must create macros beforehand (see Creating and using macros).
    3. No action.
20. From
the 
21. the Parameters
 drop
22.  drop-down list (10), select a specific action that is performed when you click the button. Possible values are determined by the action that you selected in the previous step: it can be both available macros and the list of cameras between which you can switch.

23. If necessary, set

the 

24. the Button label

 in

25.  in the corresponding field (11). To display a default label for the

button depending

26. button depending on the selected action, click

the 

27. the Default

 button

28.  button (12). In this case, the label will contain the name of the camera, macro, or current object.
    

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    In

the 

29. the Video surveillance monitor

 interface

30. interface, the label is displayed only as a tooltip when you hover the cursor over the button.

31. Click
the 
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 button
33.  button.

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

You can configure the mode of displaying the button in the Video surveillance monitor using the AllowHideActionButtons parameter of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\AxxonSoft\Axxon PSIM\Video registry key. To always display a button, set AllowHideActionButtons=0 (see see Registry keys reference guide. For the information on working with the registry, see see Working with Windows OS registry).

Configuring a button to display in the Video surveillance monitor is complete.