can anyone provide me matrox drivers in labview

[Zupan Hu]

I want to acquire image in labview by Matrox Meteor II Multichannel card, and I am wonder whether I need install drivers. The drivers provided by  Alliance Vision is too expensive.  can anyone provide me one ? or just tell me how get bmp file in labview. The attachment are VIs made under the guid provided by matrox company.

[PhillipBrooks]

It appears from the link you provided that Alliance Vision bundles in a driver library called Mil-Lite from Matrox.

	Software Requirements: Mil Lite 8.0 runtime (supplied). Microsoft Windows 2000/XP Operating system. National Instruments LabVIEW 7.0 or later. National Instruments Vision Development Module 7.0 or later, OR National Instruments NI-IMAQ 3.0 or later.

A quick (and incomplete) Google search indicates the Mil-Lite toolkit costs ~ $600 US. I would expect that Alliance has written and provides native LabVIEW VIs to call the DLL functions in the Mil-Lite library and added this to the cost of their software package.

You might be able to save some money by purchasing the Mil-Lite library and creating your own LabVIEW VIs to call the ActiveX functions.

There is a feature of LabVIEW 8.2 called "Import Shared Library Wizard". You could use this to quickly import the Matrox functions, but you will need to learn how to call all the functions and combine them to create meaningful data for passing to the NI vision libraries. In the end, it might be less expensive to simply buy than to build yourself.


Message Edited by Phillip Brooks on 08-06-2008 07:54 AM