I am trying to get knowledgable on making vision acquisition software, and I need some help. I am using Lumenera microscope cameras. I don't have the model numbers in front of me, but I remember seeing information that these cameras use DirectShow. I installed the software from Lumenera. I then tired to find the camera in MAX. Measurement & Automation did find the camera, and can snap/grab images. As far as camera attributes, the only options available in MAX are exposure and gain. I can change these attributes in MAX. However, when I tell it to save, it doesn't seem to do anything. Would be nice, but not a problem for me.
My problem is in labview. I am currently using Labview 2009 SP1 on Widows XP, but we also want to move our development to Windows 7 running 64-bit labview 2010. In 2009, I can get all the coding correct, and grab an image. But I haven't figured out how to access and change the exposure and gain attributes like I did in MAX. I tired contacting Lumenera for documentation of what the attribute names and data types are, but they are telling me that they don't interface to labview, and I need to contact the people making the IMAQdx driver and DirectX (I wonder if they mis-spoke, and meant DirectShow). Anyway, I am assuming this is something very simple I am missing since MAX is able to get what I want, I just need to know how to code that on the labview side.
