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CONTENTS
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About this manual
1.1
Composition of the manual
The mvIMPACT Acquire manual for the MATRIX VISION frame grabbers is based on a modular concept. That
means like in many object-oriented programming languages you have for each functionality your own "class". In-
stead of classes, you have books. For example, if you want to know how images are acquired with the frame
grabbers, have a look in the respective programming language chapter.
Here is a short summary about all books of the frame grabber manual:
• The manual starts with technical data of the frame grabber as well as a quick start chapter.
Afterwards, you will find the different books:
•
Application Usage
(p. 48)
–
The frame grabbers can also be managed via user interface. The program is called
wxPropView
(p. 48).
•
DirectShow developers
(p. 115)
–
This is the documentation of the MATRIX VISION DirectShow_acquire interface.
•
Use cases
(p. 122)
–
This book offers solutions and explanations for standard use cases.
Note
For C, C++, .NET developers, there are separate mvIMPACT Acquire manuals
•
"mvIMPACT_Acquire_API_CPP_manual.chm"
,
•
"mvIMPACT_Acquire_API_C_manual.chm"
, and
•
"mvIMPACT_Acquire_API_NET_manual.chm"
available as downloads from our website
http://www.matrix-vision.com
. The manuals contain
chapter about
• how to link and build applications using mvIMPACT Acquire,
• how the log output for
"mvIMPACT Acquire"
devices is configured and how it works in general,
• how to create your own installer packages for Windows and Linux, and
• the general mvIMPACT Acquire API documentation.
1.2
How to get started?
1.2.1
Introduction
This chapter gives you a short overview, how to get started with a MATRIX VISION frame grabber and where to find
the necessary information in the manual. It will also explain or link to the concepts behind the driver and the image
acquisition. Furthermore it shows you how to get start programming own applications.
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