The Camera Toolbar allows you to control your various camera
inputs, grab, save and load images in the viewer. If the Camera
toolbar is not loaded it is because you have no cameras loaded into
the system. Automation Manager will only display the Camera
Toolbar when it recognizes that a camera in the system.
There
are five buttons that are a part of the Camera Toolbar.
However, not every mode will display every button. To edit
these settings you will need to use the Toolbar
Main Window settings in the ROT.
Use
the camera select box to select which camera you want to use.
If this box is not shown it is because you have only one camera in
the system.
Note: If you have several cameras that use Microsoft
Direct Show then they can all be access through the same number and
then switched by using the Props button. Once a Direct Show
camera is selected in the Props menu you will need to hit the Sel.
button to initialize the camera before it can be used.
The
Props button will display a property page for the
currently selected camera. Each camera will have its own uinque
set of properties. If you click the Props button
and nothing happens then there are no properties available for the
currently selected camera.
The
Live button will make the currently selected camera go
live. When this button is selected the live image will be
display in the viewer window.
The
Grab button will take a picture from the currently
selected camera. This image can be saved using the "Save"
button in the Camera toolbar or you can run a program against that
image.
The
Save button will save the currently grabbed image.
The Load button will load an image from your hard disk
into the image viewer so that you can run a program against it.