Question / Help Recording Button

[jsanchezdor]

Hi.

I would like use obs to record a lot of telemedicine sessions, so customer only should see Start/Stop recording button.

I know how hide rest of pannels, but, there is any option to hide control pannel and add only a recording button?

Thank you in advance.

 

[Suslik V]

Nope. But, is this really needed for your task? You can preview any source you recording (Windowed Projector option, for example, or Audio Monitoring). The recording can be started and stopped by Hotkeys (just assign you need).

Look at the guides and find some tutorials: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/categories/guides-studio.8/

 

[jsanchezdor]

Nope. But, is this really needed for your task? You can preview any source you recording (Windowed Projector option, for example, or Audio Monitoring). The recording can be started and stopped by Hotkeys (just assign you need).

Look at the guides and find some tutorials: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/categories/guides-studio.8/

Unfortunatelly, system's users are doctors who have not engouth knowledge about computers, so we would like only appear Recording button to avoid wrongs in use.

I'm edditing Ranchi theme with ccs editor and I have get put Recording button bigger, but I cannot eliminate rest of buttons.

 

[Suslik V]

Better to use hotkeys. But if you wish it so badly, possible css code:

QPushButton#streamButton,
QPushButton#modeSwitch,
QPushButton#settingsButton,
QPushButton#exitButton {
    qproperty-enabled: false;
    border: none;
    border-image: none;
    max-width: 0px;
    max-height: 0px;
}

add it at the end of .qss file.

 

[jsanchezdor]

wow!!! this code works very fine!!!!!

Thank you so much.

You can see the final result next. Very easy to our customer.

 

[ES_SG]

Hi Guys

Trying to also get rid of the "Start Virtual Cam" - Button but

QPushButton#VCamButton" doesn't seem to work.

Any ideas?

 

[Suslik V]

@ES_SG you can uninstall virtual camera driver from the PC - the button will disappear.
path:

data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\virtualcam-uninstall.bat

or you can use property themeID="vcamButton" that is in use (no object name is assigned to this widget, so "#" wouldn't work here):

QPushButton[themeID="vcamButton"] {
    qproperty-enabled: false;
    border: none;
    border-image: none;
    max-width: 0px;
    max-height: 0px;
}

 

[Hbeen]

Thanks to that, I was able to hide the widget well.
But it leaves a strange mark like the picture, is this unavoidable?

 

[Suslik V]

@Hbeen The newer themes (mostly non-System) for OBS Studio has padding setting for the QPushButton objects. Thus, the example mentioned above should be slightly modified:

QPushButton#streamButton,
QPushButton#modeSwitch,
QPushButton#settingsButton,
QPushButton#exitButton {
    qproperty-enabled: false;
    border: none;
    border-image: none;
    max-width: 0px;
    max-height: 0px;
    padding: 0px; /* Additional setting for the non-System themes */
}

Long time ago the System theme was default for OBS, not the Dark one, so there is difference.

 

[Hbeen]

This is based on the Dark Theme.
Thank you so much for helping many people from the past.

 

[Nostrildumbass]

@ES_SG you can uninstall virtual camera driver from the PC - the button will disappear.
path:

data\obs-plugins\win-dshow\virtualcam-uninstall.bat

or you can use property themeID="vcamButton" that is in use (no object name is assigned to this widget, so "#" wouldn't work here):

QPushButton[themeID="vcamButton"] {
    qproperty-enabled: false;
    border: none;
    border-image: none;
    max-width: 0px;
    max-height: 0px;
}

Doesn't work for me, does anyone know the correct element name for the Virtual Cam button?

 

[Suslik V]

@Nostrildumbass You need to specify version of application and what you unable to do, because after the:

Separation of the controls dock from the main window by tytan652 · Pull Request #7278 · obsproject/obs-studio

Description Depends on: UI: Refactor Virtual Camera source selector dialog #7169 Moves the controls dock UI outside of the main window UI. And make OBSBasic no longer rely on UI element from th...

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the buttons has next properties: class="NonCheckableButton" name="virtualCamButton" but "themeID" property didn't change.
And new OBS expects .obt, .ovt files after the:

UI: Composable Themes System by derrod · Pull Request #9653 · obsproject/obs-studio

Description This PR introduces a system that allows "layering" of theme files, i.e. a base theme can provide styling, a variant theme the colour palette, and optional high-contrast adjust...

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General rules didn't change - all customization written below, in the theme file, override customization written above.

The "virtualcam-uninstall" batch script still in place and requires admin rights + Windows Server service running (service used in admin rights checks).