how to develop an overlay button that when pressed shows a popup

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Hi, I’m investigating the SDK.

I would like to know, how can I develop an overlay button that when pressed show a popup with more options? I can not find any example or information. Could you help me?

Regards,

thank you very much.

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The overlay buttons that are part of the Smart Client can not be used by MIP plug-ins.

It might be possible to to draw an overlay like the AnalyticsOverlay sample does, to detect mouse-clicks and then figure out whether the mouse-click is on the area of your overlay.

I would like to instead recommend that you make a toolbar button instead, see the Smart Client Toolbar Plug-in sample. See also - https://developer.milestonesys.com/s/question/0D50O000045MZeDSAW/how-can-i-create-toolbar-grouping-

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Hello Andersen, thanks for answering.

I can not make the toolbar example work.

I have installed the sdk, Xprotect essencial + trial, the Xprotect smart client version is 2018 R! 12.1.a.

I can run some plugins but others do not. The .dll and the .def and the are in the MIPPlugins / SCToolbar folder, however the plugin does not appear. I would need the camera to be seen while the toolbar is in that same cell. it’s possible?

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Thank you very much, I already understood the idea.

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From the last post I assume you got the plugin running..

I would like to highlight this new knowledge base article. - https://developer.milestonesys.com/s/article/debugging-techniques-for-Smart-Client-plugins

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Thank you very much, good information.

I have an other question. it is possible that the plug in uses an app.config file?