Milestone Central 3.7 - Manual (Page 61)

Milestone XProtect 3.7; Administrator’s Manual
1. Click the Map Settings window’s Load... button. This will open Windows’s standard Open
dialog.
2. Locate and select the required background image, then click the Open button. This will load
the background image onto the XProtect Central Server.
Deleting Unwanted Map Background Images
To delete a background image, select the unwanted image in the Map Settings window’s list of
background images, than click the Delete button.
Changing the Font Used in Map Indicator Fields
To change the font used in map indicator texts, click the Map Settings window’s Edit... button. This
will open a standard Windows Font dialog, in which you are able to change the following:
• Font (example: Arial)
• Font style (example: bold italic)
• Size (example: 10 pt)
• Effects (example: underline)
• Language script (example: Vietnamese)
When ready, click the Font dialog’s OK button to return to the Map Settings window.
Changing the Background Color of Map Indicator Texts
The background of map texts can be adjusted from completely transparent to a completely
saturated version of the color chosen as background color for selected items in your Windows
version.
To change the background, select a value in the Map Settings dialog’s Text background filter list. A
value of 0 will make the background completely transparent; a value of 100 will make the
background completely saturated.
The following three examples show a map text with a Text background filter value of 0, 50 and 100
respectively, where the color chosen as background color for selected items in Windows is white:
0 50 100
Using Animated Map Indicators
Indicators on maps can be still (default) or animated. When animated, indicators will blink; any
indications of new alarms will blink red/yellow.
It is possible to select animation for operational error indications, for alarm indications, or for both.
Simply select the required check boxes, Alarm messages and/or Operational error, in the Map
Settings window.
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