The “Review” page
On the “Review” page you can perform a variety of operations on images you’ve previously taken. Among the functions available are…
- Examine miniature thumbnail images representing all photos for the currently selected patient, or all images returned by the most recent image search (if a search is active).
- Select an image to work with here and on the “Process” page.
- Assign any photos that were taken using the “No patient” dummy patient record to the currently active patient.
- Choose a full-face photograph to be shown on the “Patients” page for the active patient.
- Perform a search for images matching criteria that you specify.
- Print one or more photos, arranged in your choice of layouts.
- Attach a text or voice note to the selected image.
- Delete unwanted images. (Note that this can be done only on the same calendar day when the photographs to be deleted were taken; after that they will be flagged for permanent retention.)
- Export images from our proprietary, high-quality format to the industry-standard JPEG format.
Thumbnail image display area
Here you can see the thumbnails representing each image for the active patient or search. If there are too many to fit on the screen at once, a scroll bar will appear along the right edge so you can view those that lie off-screen.
The thumbnails
Each thumbnail displays a miniature version of the image it stands for. Below that you can see the date and time the photo was taken, or if a multi-patient search is in effect, the date taken and the ID code for the patient to whom the photo belongs.
Depending on what operation you’re performing, other things may appear on one or more thumbnails, including icons representing text or voice notes, icons showing where in a print layout an image will be placed, a temporary progress meter (while the thumb is first created), or other indicators.
The selected image
The selected image is the one to which any image-specific functions will be applied. To select an image, click its thumb with your mouse or other pointing device. The lamp in the thumbnail box’s lower right corner will turn bright green to show that it is now active.
When you click another thumbnail, that image will be selected and the previously chosen one will be deselected.
If you now go to the “Process” page, the image that you most recently selected — the one with its selection lamp lit — will appear, ready for you to work on.
Likewise the active, selected image is the one that will be affected if you click many of the buttons in the “Review” page’s toolbar.
Toolbar
The buttons in the toolbar along the left edge of the “Review” page let you perform each of the functions listed above.
Click this button to assign all images currently filed under “No
patient” to the active patient. It will be grayed out (disabled) if
there aren’t any no-patient images presently on file, or if “No
patient” is the active patient.
Snap and select a full-face photograph of the active patient, then click
this button to make the selected photo appear in the upper right corner of
the “Patients” page.
When you click the “Image search” button, the “Search for images”
dialog box will pop up to let you enter search criteria. Once you dismiss
the criteria dialog by clicking its “OK” button the thumbnail
area will be emptied, then repopulated with the results (if any) of your
search.
If a search is currently active (meaning that the “Review” page
is showing search results), clicking this button will return to the normal
mode in which all photos for the active patient are displayed.
Clicking the “Print” button will begin the printing process by
calling up a dialog box where you can select a print layout. For complete
information on how to print, refer to “Printing images” in the
“Operations” chapter of this manual.
To attach a text note to the currently selected image, click this button.
A dialog box will appear in which you can type a note and caption and
see what mouth region or regions, if any, are associated with the note.
Similar to the above, this button brings up a voice recorder window. You can
record a brief voice note attached to the currently selected image in much
the same way you create a text note.
Clicking this button lets you delete the selected image, assuming it’s
still the same calendar date on which the photo was taken. After midnight of
the day an image was taken, it becomes part of that patient’s record
and can no longer be deleted.
When you click the “Export image” button, you’ll be able
to pick the destination filename and path to which you want to save a
JPEG-format copy of the currently selected image.
This button brings up a dialog box that lets you pick one or more files
in JPEG format to import into the current patient’s images.
The “Search for images” dialog
In this dialog you can enter criteria to use searching for images.
The pair of round radio buttons at the top of the dialog lets you choose whether to search only the currently active patient’s records for matching images, or all patients. If you click one button to select it, the other button will be deselected.
Under this are two check-boxes with matching date entry boxes. If the upper of these check-boxes is checked, and a date is entered into the corresponding box, only photos taken on or after the date will be included in the results. If the lower check-box is checked, only photos taken on or before the date in the corresponding entry box will be returned. If both boxes are checked, the results will include only photos taken between the two dates, inclusive.
Under the date section is a checkbox which determines whether the search will be restricted to certain teeth or regions of the mouth. Beneath this is a standard mouth region selector, on which you may select one or more regions to search for. The results will include records matching any of the regions you specify — that is, if you search for matches for teeth 6 through 10, any photo that had been flagged as showing any tooth in that range will be returned.
At the bottom of the dialog is an indicator that shows an abbreviation for the currently selected mouth region set. The same teeth or regions listed here will be highlighted in a bright color in the mouth region selector’s arch display.
The “Edit note” dialog
This dialog box lets you view or edit text notes. At the top of the dialog is a box into which you can type a one-line caption — this will appear in the note-card index on the left of the “Notes” page. Below that is a large text box into where you can type the content of your note. At the bottom of the dialog is a standard mouth region picker.
When you bring up the “Edit note” dialog box, its caption will be filled in with a generic, prepared description. You may accept this as is, but it’s usually best to change the caption to something more descriptive — a “memory tag” that will help you to recognize the note at a glance.
The large “Note text” box lets you type in multiple lines of text, or even whole paragraphs. (To type a new paragraph, press your keyboard’s “Enter” key twice at the end of the preceding paragraph; this will insert a blank line between the two paragraphs.)
As with all CaptureDent’s text entry boxes, you can copy and paste text, highlight text for deletion, and so forth. This can be useful in case you want to make a separate copy of one or more notes.
Initially, the graphical mouth region selector near the bottom of the dialog displays whatever mouth region set has been assigned to the photo to which the note is attached. If your note concerns a portion of the region covered by the photo, you might want to change this setting to something more specific. This can help you to retrieve just the records you want in complex searches.
When you click the “OK” button to accept the note, the updated mouth region set will be stored along with your caption and note text, instead of the photo’s mouth region set.
The “Voice recorder” dialog
This dialog lets you record a brief voice note to be attached to an image. It’s similar to the dialog for text notes, but in place of the large text box there are a cluster of controls simulating an audio tape recorder.
You can change the length of the recording. By default it is set to five seconds. After clicking in the box where the number of seconds is shown, you can type in a different number, or use the drop-down mini-slider that will appear.
Tip: If you change the recording length, the part of the automatically provided caption that refers to the length will no longer be accurate. In this case, you should change the caption by hand, either to reflect the true length or — better — to describe the note in a way that will be meaningful to you when you browse the notes in the future.
When you click the “Record” button, CaptureDent will begin recording your sound card’s audio input (you should previously have set this up to accept your microphone, in accordance with standard Windows procedures). The picture of a tape cassette will animate to show that your audio is being recorded, and the blue progress bar will display how much time remains in which to record. When the time limit is reached, recording will stop automatically and the voice note will be stored.
After you’ve recorded the note, you can play it back by clicking the “Play” button. If you aren’t satisfied, just click “Record,” record the note over (erasing the original take), then audition again. While doing this, you can change the note length as described above. You can repeat this until the note is suitable.
While recording or playing, you can click the “Stop” button to halt the operation in progress. If recording, this will truncate the note at the point you click the button. If playing, it will simply stop playback without changing the recorded note.
The mouth region selector near the bottom of this dialog behaves identically to, and serves the same function as, the one in the text note editing dialog box. All the comments above concerning mouth region set selection apply to this dialog as well.
If you have difficulty recording or playing voice notes, please be sure your sound card, microphone, and speakers are set up correctly. Also check the Windows mixer applet: be certain your mic input is active and not faded down, and that the wave audio output and master output are set to suitably high (but not excessive) levels.
