Application settings

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Description of the Application settings:

  1. Full screen display – will toggle between windowed mode and full screen mode
  2. Keep screen on – will prevent your Android device to turn the screen off.
    Note: this setting is only visible on Android devices
  3. Use ‘root’ for USB access – if you enable this option and your Android device is ‘rooted’ then the application will try to use ‘root’ and libusb for communication with the USB connected DSLR camera.
    Note: this setting is only visible on Android devices
  4. Show capture history after capture – the application keeps track of the last 50 captures that was made while the DSLR camera is connected to application. Enabling this setting will show the capture history after every capture.
  5. Allow connection sharing – by enabling this setting DSLR cameras connected to the application will be available over network to another qDslrDashboard instance running on another PC or Android device.
  6. Local image folder – this is the folder where qDslrDashboard will save the images downloaded from your connected DSLR camera.
    The default folder location are:

    • Android /sdcard/DCIM/DslrDashboard
    • Linux – DslrDashboard folder under users default Pictures folder – /home/<user_name>/Pictures/DslrDashboard
    • Windows  – DslrDashboard folder under users default Pictures folder – c:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Pictures\DslrDashboard
  7. Select local image folder button – pressing this button will show a dialog where the user can select a different local image folder
  8. Local image file name prefix – if a DSLR camera does not provide a file name while downloading an image this prefix will be used to generate the file. The file name will be in format <prefix><counter_value> .
  9. Counter – this is a image counter and it’s value is used when generating file names for images
  10. Reset counter – pressing this button will reset the image counter
  11. Clear local thumbs – pressing this button will delete all the local image thumbs that can be found in the .thumbs/localthumbs folder under the DslrDashboard folder. qDslrDashboard stores the thumbs for local image files located in the DslrDashboard local image file folder in the folder .thumbs/localthumbs for faster access. qDslrDashboard will check and recreate the local image thumbs for images that are located in the DslrDashboard local image folder.
  12. Clear camera thumbs – pressing this button will delete all the image thumbs that can be found in the .thumbs/sdcardthumbs folder under the DslrDashboard folder. qDslrDashboard stores the image thumbs for images located on DSLR camera SD card in the .thumbs/sdcardthumbs folder for faster access. qDslrDashboard will download the image thumb from the connected DSLR camera if it can’t find a thumb in the .thumbs/sdcardthumbs folder.