CCD camera USB control via Visual Basic -- Can this be converted to Labview

[athes]

Hi

Im using Labview 8.2 

one of my collegues have written a visual basic program where he controls a USB camera using third party drivers

what i was wondering is it possible to link to the driver using Labview to grab image from the camera - if it might be possible how might I go about testing this and where can I find some examples

any help appreciated 

jonas

[Mark_SAI]

Hello,

LabVIEW has the ability to use external Dynamic Linked Libraries (dll) as shown here.

Alternatively, you could use NI-IMAQ for USB, an example is shown here.

The driver for NI-IMAQ is here. 

I hope this gets you started!

[wbadry]

Hello athes,

If your colleague already did some code in Visual Basic, why don't you use it and add the IMAQ functionalities instead of building things from scratch?

If it is a metter of grabbing images, then my colleagues here on the forum has already posted you the proper action.

[Kameralina]

To add to what Mark said, the driver package that we provide for vision now officially supports acquisition from USB cameras.

It can be downloaded here:  NI Vision Acquisition Software 2009

[muks]

thanks for the link