The settings window
When you bring up the settings window by a click to the ‘Settings’ button in the main
window) the program will query the camera firmware to find all the settings and resolutions
and frame rates which the camera supports. It will then list those settings as GUI controls
for you to adjust them. This means that if you run the program with a camera other than
the AF51 you will see a different list of ‘User’ and ‘Camera’ controls (unless the camera
just happens to have the same set of controls as the AF51). What follows is therefore
specific to the settings available with the AF51 camera.
The settings in this window are divided into three groups (you will need to scroll to the
bottom of the window to see them all – figures 6.3 and 6.4):
•
User Controls
•
Camera Controls
•
Custom Settings
On the left hand side of the settings window are GUI selection controls where you may set
your desired value for each of the settings. These selection controls are mostly in the form
of a text entry box but sometimes a drop-down menu or a check box instead. For those
cases where a file needs to be selected, a button is provided that brings up a file chooser
dialog box so you can select a file name.
In the middle column of the settings window is a list of the currently applied value for each
setting.
On the right is a description of the setting as well as an acceptable range statement.
At the top of the settings window is an ‘
Apply All Settings
’ button which does what it
says – it applies all the values that you have chosen via the GUI selection controls so they
become the values that are currently applied and so replace the values shown in the
middle column. If you enter a value that cannot be set (e.g. a value that is out of the
acceptable range) then an error will be presented to you and, if that value is one of the
‘User’ or ‘Camera’ control numerical values, the value that could not be set is highlighted
in red in the middle column (this value in red is the value that remains in effect because it
could not be changed to the one you supplied).
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