Setting User Preferences
You can set parameters in microDisplay 2 that affect the following:
- GUI display of microDisplay 2 (display of applet and dec/hex/bin display of parameter values)
- Acquisition parameters (number of buffers, acquisition time out, max. DMA buffer size)
- Behavior of camera detection and camera control
To set your preferences for working with microDisplay 2:
- In microDisplay, from menu Tools, select Settings.
- In the dialog that opens, adapt the settings you want to change:
Display of applets
Click on GUI, and under Applet Layout / View Mode, decide about the way the applet is displayed in the applet layout pane of the program window: Select if you want get the resources (ports) of an applet listed by process (Process Mode) or by resource type (Resource Mode):
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Process mode:
In process mode, the resources (ports) belonging to one process (one acquisition channel) are listed as an entity Acquisition Process in the applet layout pane.
(In our example, on board #0, two cameras are connected. On board #1, one camera is connected.)
Resource mode:
In resource mode, under DMAs, all active DMA ports (of applets loaded in microDisplay X) are listed.
Under Camera Ports, all cameras connected to the involved frame grabbers are listed.
(In our example, on board #0, two cameras are connected. On board #1, one camera ist connected.)
Default integer display mode for parameter and pixel values dec/hex/bin)
For the display of parameter and pixel values in the program window, you have the options decimal, hexadecimal, and binary available:
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Example: Same settings in decimal, in hexadecimal, and in binary display:
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Decimal display
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Hexadecimal display
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Binary display
Acquisition parameters (number of buffers, acquisition time out, max. DMA buffer size)
To set the acquisition parameters, click on Acquisition and define your preferences:
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Discovery Settings (Automatic Camera Detection)
To set the discovery parameters, click on Discovery and define your preferences:
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