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The Button object is a child object of the Camera system object and is used to display the Button over 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 when you click the Button is clickedbutton.

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

   13. 1. Set the Transparency level

    of

   14. 1.  of the

   Button

   15. 1. button as a percentage (6). The feature of this setting: the real transparency

   will be

   16. 1. 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

   configuring

   17. 1. configuration.
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          Info
          title Note
          You can configure the size and position of the

   Button

   18. 1. button not only by entering values

   ,

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

   Button

   20. 1. button, you can: drag the

   Button

   21. 1. button with the mouse; stretch or shrink the

   Button,

   22. 1. button and rotate it, using the green anchor points on its perimeter. You can fine-tune the

   Button

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

   Button will change

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

   Button will change

   25. 1. button changes only its angle. When Shift+Ctrl are pressed, the

   Button won

   26. 1. button doesn't change.

   set the 

   27. 1. Set the Drawing order

    of

   28. 1.  of the configured

   Button

   29. 1. button in the corresponding field if several

   Buttons

   30. 1. Button objects are created for

   one 

   31. 1. one Camera

    

   32. 1. object (8). The setting determines the order in which the

   Buttons

   33. 1. buttons are drawn in the Surveillance window.

   34. Select
   the 
   35. the Button action—what will happen when the
   Operator
   36. operator clicks the
    Button 
   37. button in the Video surveillance monitor 
   Monitor 
   38. (9):
       1. Switch between the video images of the cameras. The cameras that
   will be
   39. 1. are controlled by the
   Button
   40. 1. button must be added to the Monitor (
   see 
   41. 1. see Selecting and configuring video cameras), otherwise, you won’t be able to switch between the video images when you click the
   Button
   42. 1. button.
       2. Execute macros.
   The macros must be created
   43. 1. You must create macros beforehand (see Creating and using macros).
       2. No action.
   44. From
   the 
   45. the Parameters
    drop
   46.  drop-down list (10), select a specific action that is performed when
   clicking
   47. you click the
    Button
   48. button. Possible values are determined by
   what
   49. the action
   was
   50. that you selected in the previous step: it can be both available macros and the list of cameras between which you can switch.

   51. If necessary, set

   the 

   52. the Button label

    in

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

    Button depending

   54. button depending on the selected action, click

   the 

   55. the Default

    button

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

       Info
       title Note
       In

   the 

   57. the Video surveillance monitor

    interface

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

    Button

   59. button.

   60. Click
   the 
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    button
   62.  button.

   As a result, the the Monitor will  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 AllowHideActionButtons parameter of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\AxxonSoft\Axxon 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 monitor is complete.

   Note
   title Attention!
   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.