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<h3>Configuration dialog</h3>
<p><img src="images/dialog-configuration.png" width=320 height=566 align="left">
This elongated dialog controls just about anything you want to do with
snapshots you take from a video device. From top to bottom:
<p>Select the image format you want to use for saving images. This list is
dynamicly queried at startup; if PNG and/or JPEG is missing, you may want to
recompile the Qt library (see the <a href="../install.html#rebuild">
Installation instructions</a>).
<p><b>Put timestamp in image</b> will print the time and date the snapshot w
as taken into the image before saving. Use the two buttons to select a font
and color with which to paint this timestamp. The timestamp is always
printed at the bottom of the image.
<p>The 3rd input and 4th input item determine the name of the file that will
be written or FTP'd. The <b>Basename</b> is the first part of the filename,
the second part can be one of three things:
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<li>nothing (<b>re-use</b>);
<li>a full <b>timestamp</b> of the form YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS (which makes it easy to sort the files)
<li>or finally, use a <b>sequential number</b> that wraps around after a maximum, ,
so you always have the last N images available.
</ul>
<p>Once you have determined how the file is going to be named, you must
determine what you want to do with it. You can save it to disk, FTP it
to a server, or do both (or neither, which is rather pointless :-)). So check
at least one of the two checkboxes.
<p>The <b>save to disk</b> option just dumps the file in your current
working directory; <b.FTP to server</b> enables the FTP option. By clicking
on the <span class="button">FTP settings</span> button, you will get a small
pop up dialog, shown below.
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<p><img src="images/dialog-ftpsettings.png" width=390 height=265 align="left">
This is a simple sub-dialog where you can specify where you want your images
uploaded. Ik think they are pretty straightforward; in the first field you
type the name or IP address of your server. The second field is the path;
please note that you can only specify a path, not a complete filename (this
is a limitations if the Qt FTP class). The last 2 fields are
self-explanatory.
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