Matt Jarvis wrote:
> We may have a drop-everything-and-do-it-now project involving having a
> laptop w/ digi camera, taking pictures, storing data to laptop, and
> having the laptop controlling the camera...
>
> Something like that...
>
> Scenario:
>
> We remodel supermarkets so we are doing all this with permission...
>
> user wheels cart down supermarket isle, sees something they want to take
> picture of, presses button on laptop interface to say "Take a picture",
> window pops up for entering notes ("wrong placement of lights", for
> example), press a button to actually take the picture, save the picture
> to the laptop... doing all this in MS Access or if I get my way, VFP.
>
> I'm thinking when the picture is taken, the image is stored to a folder
> on the laptop and the image name is entered as a record in a table. I
> know better than to try and store the image as a blob in a table...
>
> I've worked with the Dosadi in the past but that was controlling a
> desktop scanner, not a digi camera.
Piece of cake with EZTwain. There used to be a white paper floating
around the net about using eztwain with VFP and a webcam to create
conference badges on the fly. If you google vfp and EZTwain, you might
find it. Very close to what you want. Also check out EZTwain web site.
Not free, but not expensive, either.
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