Overview

The software provides different panel elements, they can be placed, resized, and docked freely within GCT window. The GCT user interface starts after a successful connection with your camera. The window contains four main areas. The Menu bar widget is for general access, the Toolbar widget is for fast access to the most common functions, the image view widget is where the image and all relevant information are displayed, and the configuration widget is for the camera configuration.

Main window 

Menu Bar

The Start Menu offers the following functions:

• Connect/Disconnect: Opens device discovery widget or disconnect the camera,Connection and disconnection of Camera
• Start Grabbing: Starts continues image grabbing
• Device description: Load and save XML file from the camera
• Settings: GCT setting options, GCT Options
• Exit: Close the GCT window

The Tools Menu offers the following functions

• Calibration: Opens a camera calibration dialog, Create a black-reference (DSNU) and Create a shading-reference (PRNU) 
• Maintenance Mode: Only for experts
• Up/Download: Opens an Up/Download dialog, Up-Download
• Register Editor: Only for experts
• Perform Adjustment 

The View Menu offers the following functions

• Default view: Set the GCT view to default
• Configuration Widget: Shows the configuration panel in the configuration widget
• Feature Widget: Shows the Feature tree panel in the configuration widget 
• Image View: Shows this Image view window 
• Message Log: Display the Message Log under the Image view
• Refresh Feature Tree: Refreshes the feature tree

The Help Menu offers the following functions

• About: General Information about GCT
• Open GCT Manual: Opens the GCT Manual
• System Information: Generates a System information report
• Search for GCT Update: Search for GCT updates

Toolbar 

The Toolbar contains the following icons and their functions.

The Toolbar offers the following button functions:

• Connect/Disconnect: Opens device discovery widget or disconnect the camera, Connection and disconnection of Camera
• Reset and reconnect: Resets the camera and reconnect
• Start Grabbing: Starts continues image grabbing
• Abort Grabbing: Stops the image acquisition
• Acquire a single frame: Acquires a single frame
• Load image: Load an image from the disk
• Save image: Save image to disk

Configuration widget

The Configuration widget provides two panels, Camera features which is the GenIcam parameter tree, and the configuration panel which is a graphical representation of the GenIcam parameter tree.

The following image shows the configuration panel of the configuration widget. The panel contains a tab view, from which four main categories can be selected. Each tab contains another tab view with subcategories. The content in each sub-tab view is scrollable.

An Info box or tooltip is shown when hovering over a parameter input field or the blue information icon.

The Camera Features tab contains the GenIcam parameter tree, the user setup level, and an extra panel to set up the filter driver.

Image view widget

The image view widget shows the current image view and additional image and stream relevant information.

Split-view 

The Split View option allows you to display multiple tabs side by side or on top of each other. As soon as two or more tabs are open you can select between the Horizontal Split-view and the Vertical Split view option.  

To end the Split-view you can choose between Combine tabs to the immediate left tab-widget or Combine all tabs.

The following image shows an example of the Horizontal Split-view.  

Image view options  

Line plot view

GCT can display a horizontal line plot in the image view widget. To add this feature, add a new tab, therefore press the plus on the top. A popup window will be open, please select under the “View Type” the “Horizontal Line plot.

After this configuration, a new window will open as shown in the following figure.

Histogram view

GCT can display a histogram of the image content in the image view widget. To add this feature, add a new tab, therefore press the plus on the top. A popup window will be open, please select under the “View Type” the “Horizontal Line plot.

After this configuration, a new window will open as shown in the following figure.

Single Channel 

GCT can display only a Singel Channel of the image content in the image view widget. To add this feature, add a new tab, therefore press the plus on the top. A popup window will be open, please select under the “View Type” the Single Channel.

After this configuration, a new window will open as shown in the following figure.

Image buffer 

Multiple images can be buffered in GCT and displayed individually after stopping the acquisition. To enable this option, click on the right icon with the tree sliders. A new window will be opened check the Enable image buffer option.

Arrange / Rearrange widgets 

The software provides different widget elements, they can be placed, resized, and docked freely within GCT window. If you are using two monitors you can place, for example, the configuration widget on the second screen and the image view widget on the first screen.

The software provides different widget elements, they can be placed, resized, and docked freely within GCT window. If you are using two monitors you can place, for example, the configuration widget on the second screen and the image view widget on the first screen.