Editing Zones

[skydiver]

Is i my imagination or is the new zone edit screen in 1.30 missing the display of the other zones that are defined for a camera when you are editing the active zone?

[knight-of-ni]

There are two zone views.
The first is called "zones", plural. As the name implies it displays all the zones for a particular monitor.
The second view is called "zone", singular. As that name implies, you see just one zone. This is the view from which you edit the selected zone from. No other zones are visible in this view.

Typically, the first view you see is the zones view. Then, when you select a zone for editing, it brings up the zone view.

This behaviour has not changed with the release of 1.30.0.

[knight-of-ni]

Well apparently I was mistaken. 1.29.0 did show you the rest of the zones on the "zone", singular, view.

[rockedge]

There is a bug when I attempt to add a 2nd zone there is no grid displayed in the zone editor but the points are there and can be dragged. So the 2nd or more added zones do not display in any of the zone editor screens.

[skydiver]

When defining multiple zones for a screen it is kind of important to be able to see existing other zones on the screen while you add another zone. I have fairly wide angle lenses on my cameras and create a near/middle/far set of zones and too not be able to see where one zone ends ad another begins is important.

[DVB Hardware]

Zone Points 1.30
I am having difficulty adding 5th zone point
I can drag the 4 default points fin but cannot add any with the "+"

[knight-of-ni]

Yeah, it looks like we need to take a closer look at this.

[DVB Hardware]

Sorry i did not notice the "+ -" in the table to add a zone point
My monitor was too bright to notice them.
I assumed from all the searching to add a zone point was to use
the keyboard + / - , It works ok clicking them with the mouse.

Jimmy

[knight-of-ni]

Gentlemen,
iconnor has created a PR to show all the polgons on the zone editing screen.
I won't have time to build and test this until the weekend.
However, we could merge this quicker if one of you would be willing to make the proposed changes to your own system and then report back the status:
https://github.com/ZoneMinder/ZoneMinder/pull/1576

The changes are all http, php, css changes, so you could make the changes to your system by hand if you don't want to build your own package.

[rockedge]

I made all the changes and I can see all the zone polygons except for an "Inactive" one.
So to run a test I then modified /web/skins/classic/css/dark/views/zone.css by adding

line 119:

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.Inactive {
	stroke: #57C03C;
	fill: #57C03C;
}

in /web/skins/classic/css/dark/views/zones.css added:
line 21:

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.Inactive {
	stroke: #57C03C;
	fill: #57C03C;
}

And I returned this line in /web/skins/classic/views/zone.php:
Line 236

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<polygon id="zonePoly" points="<?php echo $zone['AreaCoords'] ?>" class="Editing <?php echo $zone['Type'] ?>"

To:

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<polygon id="zonePoly" points="<?php echo $zone['AreaCoords'] ?>" class="<?php echo $zone['Type'] ?>"

Then it worked completely in the dark skin.

[rockedge]

I made the same change to the "flat' and "classic" skin and all the zone types are visible when there are 2 or more.

[rockedge]

I just upgraded a clients machine from 1.29 to 1.30.0 using the iconner PPA for Ubuntu and noticed that multiple zones are not visible. Are the modifications present?

[lightguy48]

I am trying to fix this issue in 1.3, and after editing the files mentioned (except I edited the Classic CSS files as I don't use the Dark skin) I still cannot get the old behavior to return, it still won't show me the other defined zones while I'm editing a zone so it's extremely difficult to edit zones to make sure they don't overlap or have missing coverage.

But one thing I noticed is my zone.php did not have Editing comment in the file.

I restarted apache and zoneminder after making the changes, does something else need to happen?

[rockedge]

did you try to clear the browser cache? I can not remember if this mattered...

[lightguy48]

Yes & I tried a different browser too. I'll try rebooting my server and see if there is some service I failed to restart.

But I'm still unsure about editing the zone.php because mine didn't have the "editing" word to be removed. But my line count is different too for zone.php