I'm resending this seems that it wasn't distributed (it isn't on SearchVIEW). My apologies if you have seen it before.
On 4 Mar 2004 at 14:51, John Brohan wrote: > I am working on a routine to display one minute images taken > continuously over the last 24 hours. It would be neat if one of the > cameras was an Intel Play microscope. The native software for the > Qx3 is highly interactive and I might be reduced to addressing the > front panel and clicking the mouse programmatically ; This is not > tempting because the screen resolution is automatically reset to > 600*800 and the window has no title bar. > > So if anyone has a driver to snap images either programmatically or > as a continuous series of timed exposures I'd be glad to hear of it. John, The QX3 drivers have Video for Windows and Twain interfaces, so it is possible to use ActiveX controls that talk to either of these (in your case I imagine that Twain would be the more appropriate). I did this shortly after the QX3 came out. At the time, the only ActiveX controls I could find either put the pictures on the clipboard or on disk. and since I didn't have IMAQ, and so didn't have the clipboard->image VI, I had to create lots of individual files. With IMAQ it should be fairly easy to grab Twain images to the clipboard, convert to IMAQ images and create a time-lapse video using the AVI library. Hope this is of help Regards Bernard Dr. Bernard J. Treves Brown, Research Fellow Department of Instrumentation and Analytical Science, UMIST, P.O. Box 88, Manchester. M60 1QD UK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 (0) 161-200 8900 Fax: +44 (0) 161-200 4896 '
