Acquiring single images
The live mode will be switched off. The live window's header will change
to "Live (stopped)".
At the same time, a new image document will be created and displayed
in the document group. You can rename and save this image. If you
have not already saved it when you end your software, you will be asked
if you want to do so.
Displaying the live-image and the acquired images
simultaneously
You want to view the live-image and the acquired images simultaneously. When
you do this, it should also be possible to look through the acquired images
without having to end the live mode.
Task
1. Close all open documents.
2. Open
the
Acquisition Settings > Acquisition > General
dialog box.
To do so, click, e.g., the
Acquisition Settings
button on the
Camera
Control
tool window.
3. There, make the following settings:
Choose
the
Keep document when live is stopped
option.
Clear
the
Create new document when live is started
check box.
Select
the
Continue live after acquisition
check box.
4. Switch to the live mode. Acquire an image, then switch the live mode off
again
Both of the image windows "Live (stopped)" and "Image_<Serial No.>"
are now in the document group.
The "Live (stopped)" image window is active. That's to say, right now you
see the stopped live-image in the document group. In the document bar,
the Name "Live (stopped)" is highlighted in color.
5. Split the document group, to have two images displayed next to each other.
That's only possible when at least two images have been loaded. That's why
you created two images in the first step.
6. Use
the
Window > Split/Unsplit > Split/Unsplit Document Group (Left)
.
This command creates a new document group to the left of the current
document group. In the newly set up document group, the active
document will be automatically displayed. Since in this case, the active
document is the stopped live-image, you will now see the live window on
the left and the acquired image on the right.
7. Start the live mode.
In the document group, the left window will become the live window Live
(active)". Here you see the live-image.
8. Activate the document group on the right. To do so, click, for example, the
image displayed there.
9. Click
the
Snap
button.
The acquired image will be displayed in the active document group. In
this case, it's the document group on the right.
After the image acquisition has been made, the live-image will
automatically start once more, so that you'll then see the live-image
again on the left.
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