General¶
Once ClickPoints has been installed it can be started directly from the Start Menu/Program launcher.
This will open ClickPoints with an empty project.
Images can be added to the project by using .
The project can be saved by clicking on .
ClickPoints can also be used to directly open images, videos or folder by right clicking on them, which will open an unsaved project which already contains some images. This way ClickPoints functions as an image viewing tool.
ClickPoints can be opened with various files as target:
an image, loading all images in the folder of the target image.
a video file, loading only this video.
a folder, loading all image and video files of the folder and its sub folders, which are concatenated to one single image stream.
a previously saved
.cdb
ClickPoints Project file, loading the project as it was saved.
Pressing Esc
closes ClickPoints.
To easily access marker, masks, track or other information, stored in the .cdb
ClickPoints Project file,
we provide a python based Database API
Attention
If you plan to evaluate your data set or continue working on the same data set you must save the project -
otherwise all changes will be lost upon closing the program. If a project was saved, all changes are saved
automatically upon frame change or by pressing S
Zooming, Panning, Rotating¶
ClickPoints opens with a display of the current image fit to the window. The display can be
zoomed, using the mouse wheel
panned, holding down the right mouse button
rotated using
R
.
To fit the image into the window press F
and switch to full screen mode by pressing W
.
Note
Default rotation on startup or and rotation steps with each press of R
can be defined in the
ConfigClickPoints.txt
with the entries rotation =
and rotation_steps =
.
Jumping frames¶
ClickPoints provides various options to change the current frame.
The keys
Left
andRight
go to the previous or next frame.The keys
Home
andEnd
jump to the first or last frame.Click or Drag & Drop the Timeline slider
Key pairs on the numpad allow for jumps of speciefied
Numpad 2
,Numpad 3
: -/+ 1Numpad 5
,Numpad 6
: -/+ 10Numpad 8
,Numpad 9
: -/+ 100Numpad /
,Numpad *
: -/+ 1000
Be sure to have the numpad activated, or the keys won’t work.
Note
The step size of the jump keys can be redefined by the jumps =
variable in the ConfigClickPoints.txt
For continuous playback of frames see Timeline module.
Interfaces¶
The interfaces for Marker, Mask and GammaCorretion can be shown/hidden
pressing F2
.