When buttons are greyed out it means that thes button are temporarily disabled at start. This is to avoid that by accident a function is requested while that function has not been initialized by other actions. The buttons have the following functions:

• Show controls: the mosaic settings windows is shows. This is a floating window which can be put anywhere on the screen to quickly assess the mosaic settings from anywhere in the application.
• Detach Viewer: the viewer (monitor) window is attached to the application, but can be detached, and placed in a second monitor. This way the mosaic output screen can be separated from the admin screen. The monitor can be detached again the pressing the same button (now showing 'Attach Viewer') and place the mosaic viewer window back in the application itself.
• Initiate mosaic: by pressing the initial mosaic is created. After installation a test library of pictures (1500 pictures) is available and this library is used at first. The creation of the initial mosaic takes just a few seconds, and is immediately shown in the viewer. The test library has pictures of very low resolution , and the initial mosaic seems to look very nice in the small viewer, but on a large screen pixels are clearly seen. It is highly recommended to replace the picture library by higher resolution pictures!
• Start Dynamics and Stop Dynamics: by pressing this button the dynamic mode is activated and the mosaic pictures fly in or out the current mosaic. When pressed the test change text to indicate whet happens when the button is pressed again. The dynamics will not immediately stop because it will first finish its cycle or flying in and pausing. At the pause moment the dynamics will really stop.
• Start or Stop Recording: this is a toggle button to start or stop recording of the current dynamic mosaic viewer. Every dynamic is recorded, but not the commercial interludes. These are omitted from the recording. In case you want to make sure there is not 'blank' recording you shoudl first disable the commercials before you start arecording. NOTE: Recording may heavily require CPU power, so in case you are recording while creating a HiRes dynamics mosaic, the system might become very hot, and the animations (flying, shuffle) can become jerky.

Each of these controls are explained in a dedicated chapter .