FLI camera DLL with LabView

[awolf]

Sure, no problem. Good luck taming your camera.

Alex

[FLI]

Hi, Alex,

I am going to use Labview to control FLI camera through FLI DLL.  When I use this method to acquire data, nothing data is returned. I see the DLL file you wrote, but I do not know to how to modify your files for FLI camera.  Do you use the DLL of Photometrics CoolSNAP HQ to program your code?  Please give me your advice to figure out these problems. Thanks.

Wenxiang

[awolf]

Hi Wenxiang,

yes, I use the DLL of Photometrics CoolSNAP HQ. There is basically no other way of operating a camera in Windows OS, every application uses the DLL.

Please use the free Bloodshed Dev-C++, or any other compiler, to modify it. I can't tell where the problem is.

Alex

[ElisaB]

Hello,

I need to control a camera  FLI microline and it seems there is no labview vi to do that. I am new with all of this...The only thing the FLI provides is a list of functions. I think I have to write some dll to control the camera with the functions they give me, but I do not know how to do it, could you help me? Thank you

[Joseph-S]

Hi ElisaB,

I did a quick search for your particular camera and I'm assuming that you're referring to these. It looks like these are USB-based cameras. If the camera is compatible with Microsoft DirectShow, then you can use our IMAQdx drivers to control the camera and acquire images. If this is indeed the case, make sure that you do not have the vendor's camera drivers installed on your system, as it will conflict with the functionality of our drivers. Other alternatives are listed here based on the type of connection your camera uses.

[ElisaB]

Thank you!!

[Joseph-S]

Hi ElisaB,

I just wanted to correct my last statement. If the camera is DirectShow compatible, you will need the vendor's drivers installed in order for the camera to work with IMAQdx. The drivers are necessary as a layer between the camera at a hardware level and the DirectShow drivers, and then IMAQdx will communicate with the camera through DirectShow. Sorry for the confusion.

[logatto]

Hi, I do have the same problem. I have FLI Microline camera and I need to develop LabVIEW drivers and APIs.

I contacted Sixclear but I am still waiting for a feedback.

The first issue is that the dll seems to be built for Win 32 and not 64bit

Nevertheless, calling the dll in LV 2016 32bit I always get an function error (-22 or -19). Unfortunately I did not find any error code description in the SDK documentation.

Did any of you make the dll work in LabVIEW? Any suggestion?

Thank you