Screens Options

These options affect the placement results of Screens Auto-Locate functions. See the Screens Menu section for examples of Tiling and Cascading.

Auto-Locate - Tile

• Horizontal Padding  - Set the amount of space (right-side padding) between Screens when tiled. (in pixels)
• Vertical Padding  - Set the amount of space (bottom-side padding) between Screens when tiled. (in pixels)
• Number of Screens per Row  - Set the number of screens across each row when tiled. (effectively the same as number of columns if you think in terms of a table arrangement of rows and columns)

Figure 1. shows Tiled Screens across a Horizontal row. Note the small Padding between screens. If Number of Screens per Row was set to 2, the King screen would have been place directly below the Jack.

Auto-Locate - Cascade

• X - Horizontal Offset  - Set the X Offset that each subsequent Screen is positioned when cascaded. (in pixels)
• Y - Vertical Offset  - Set the Y Offset that each subsequent Screen is positioned when cascaded. (in pixels)

Figure 2. shows Cascaded Screens with a small Vertical Offset and a Horizontal Offset set to about 75% of the width of a screen.

Direction of Placement

Tile and Cascade methods use these direction settings (see Figure 3) to determing which direction to place each subsequent screen. You select one Horizontal direction and one Vertical direction. These two settings are used in combination. In most cases, you will want these set to To Right and Downwards which creates the cascade effect shown in Figure 2. The other direction values are provided in case you have unique placement requirements.

Horizontal

• To Right  - Each subsequent screen is placed to the right of the previous screen based on the X Offset value.
• To Left  - Each subsequent screen is placed to the left of the previous screen based on the X Offset value.

Vertical

• Downwards  - Each subsequent screen is placed vertically downward in relation to the previous screen based on the Y Offset value.
• Upwards  - Each subsequent screen is placed vertically upward in relation to the previous screen based on the Y Offset value.

Direction Example

Figure 2 shows screens cascaded with direction set to To Right and Downwards. The Jack of Hearts is the first screen in the order with its upper left corner placed at the Reference Dimensions Location. Each subsequent screen is placed down and to the right using the X and Y Offsets specified (see Figure 3).

Screen Image Save Options

These options control the Screen Image Save operation (ie screen shot). Changes made here are not used on Media Screens currently loaded. Close the screen and reload it to use these changes.

• Image Format  specifies the format of the saved image file (jpg, png, gif, bmp). Note: bmp format creates a file 5-10X larger then compressed formats such as png and jpg.
• Filename  is used as the base filename of the saved image file. Generally the Day of Year and a two digit sequence number are appended to make each saved filename unique. (ex: VideoMill_Screen.251.18.png)
• Append to Filename  - You can add optional date/time stamps to the filename to help identify the image file. These stamps have the added bonus of making the filenames sortable by date.
• Date Stamp  appends today's date to the filename in the form YYYY-MM-DD. This option replaces the Day of Year. (ex: for September 8, filename = VideoMill_Screen.2010-09-08.02.png )
• Time Stamp  appends the current time to the filename in the form HH.MM.SS. (ex: for 8:52AM, filename = VideoMill_Screen.08.52.24.02.png )