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FireWire-CAM-011H/-012H
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Consequence for the Application Software
a)
If you want to use a ready-made application software, it must be
compatible with DirectX (nearly all multimedia products fulfill
this requirement).
b)
If you plan on creating your own application software and already
have experience programming with DirectX, you can access the
PHYTEC FireWire-CAM WDM driver directly with DirectX. The
corresponding programming description is available in the
DirectX-SDK from Microsoft. The functions made available by
the PHYTEC FireWire-CAM are described in
section 3.4,
„Camera Settings“
.
c)
If instead you are accustomed to programming frame grabbers
(such as the PHYTEC pciGrabber-4
plus
), then the enormous
complexity of DirectX is a hurdle that shouldn’t be under-
estimated. Therefore PHYTEC offers a
DirectX-Wrapper
in the
FireWire-SDK
which enables easy access to all of the
FireWire-CAM’s functions without requiring that the programmer
become familiar with the complexities of DirectX.
The SDK includes the connections to various programming interfaces:
-
.NET Components:
for MS Visual Basic .NET and C# .NET
-
ActiveX Control:
for Microsoft Visual Basic 6
-
C++ Class Libary:
Microsoft Visual C++ 6 and Visual C++ .NET
Note:
The FireWire-SDK is included with the camera package.
You will find
it on the „Vision Tools“-CD SO-221.
You can install it in the CD’s FireWire dialog
(see Figure 16).
For
each of these interfaces the SDK makes all required binaries, Headers
and Libraries available, including an extensive help menu as well as
example projects and demo programs with source code.
The DirectX-Wrapper reduces the complexity of DirectX and makes a
logically simple interface available to the programmer.