Custom Controls

For G-View, you can create your own buttons and control elements, which are then displayed below the viewer. Depending on which camera is active, the Custom Controls site is switched. You can enter the site that should be switched to in the setup for the media channels (see there).

A distinction is made between Custom Controls (the buttons) and PTZ dialogs. The buttons can always be switched manually, the PTZ templates only by the selection of a viewer, as they replace the Telecontrol Dialog.
In the Profile Manager, various dialogs are created, which are then selected in the Options profile.

Compatibility: Older versions only recognize one Custom Button dialog, which can be selected by a combo box under Application. The new list of the dialogs will be saved under a different path, so that there is no interference. The new versions read both the old and the new location and compile the two together.

Toolbar

In the Profile Managers sidebar menu, click on Custom controls. The dialog for creating controls opens. In the menu bar you find the flowing buttons.

Icon	Description
	Save settings
	Copy selected control
	Print
	Add new custom control
	Delete selected custom control
	Restore to default template
	Export custom controls to file
	Import custom controls from file

Creation of Custom Controls

To create custom controls use the toolbar button. In the editor, new controls can now be created and positioned. Select the control and click on Edit Controls.

Edit Controls

The editor for the button menu appears. In the menu bar you find the flowing tools:

Icon	Description
	Add new custom control
	Clone custom control
	Delete custom control
	Edit custom control

Single-click the icon to open the selection for adding a new control element.
Available are:

• Buttons
• Labels
• Joysticks
• Zoom control
• Focus control
• Present selector
• Present number set

Select an element and position it as desired. You can change the size of the control element by grabbing the edge of the graphics.

Double-clicking on a control or selecting the control and clicking the button opens the settings menu. Here you can specify the settings for the name of the control under Caption, the help text to be shown under Hint and the action to be performed under Action.

Action

You can specify how the action is started: By clicking and holding the left mouse button or releasing the control (or key combination).

Special treatment for the actions StartEvent() / StopEvent(): If the event type is not defined, the channel name is entered as event type. Thus, an attempt is made to start an event that has the same name as the channel.
In addition, with “Broadcast to all connected viewers”, a unique Foreign Key is generated from the current time stamp, generated and assigned to all StartEvent() actions. Thus, across servers, the association of these events is specified and later a Foreign Key filter can be performed on the events.

Blocking filter

If you have created a blocking filter, you can switch it on and off with a button. The configurable colors indicate whether the filter is active or inactive.

If you select Only display filter status then the button color only shows the status of the blocking filter. No switching operations are performed.

If the option Broadcast to all Connected Viewers is checked, the button action is repeated for each connected viewer (a matrix). If the action contains a viewer parameter, the global monitor number of the viewer is patched in; if a channel parameter exists, the global number of the activated camera is patched in.

The settings of the destination server for the action (all, involved, dedicated) are evaluated as usual. Whether all the connected viewers or all viewers of the selected matrix are processed depends on the option Viewer -> Sync only selected matrix. When you double click on an already created control, the setting menu opens to be able to make changes to the settings.

Options

In the options dialog, the style (classic or XP button) and the following two options can be set:

Option	Description
Replaces telecontrol dialog	Here the behavior described above is selected: If the check box is set, the dialog will be activated only on selecting the right camera or viewer, otherwise the dialog is hidden. If the option is not set, the dialog appears as a separate tab on at the Custom buttons and can also be adjusted manually.
Use as default	If an empty viewer or a camera channel is selected for which no specified dialog is allocated, this default dialog is displayed. If more than one dialog is marked as default, the first dialog found is used. If no default dialog is selected, the display remains unchanged.