web cam

[Anonymous]

is there a way I can control the working of a webcam using a windows application . if yes what are the API's I need to look at ?

[Beer26]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/EN-US/netmeet/nmstartpage_3bov.asp[^] you can get the platform sdk here http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/ [^] These links will get you started with the netmeeting sdk, which is the easy way out of writing networking cam software. If you want to really write your own software from scratch, I'm sure somebody else will post some information for you as well for that. Or maybe not.

[csc]

you may try this link : http://www.naughter.com/vfwgrab.htm The app was made for posting images into web, but you may use the code (or some snippets) for your own ideas. :)

[Andrew Walker]

If you want to control the properties of the camera try DirectShow, specifically: the IAMCameraControl Interface the IAMVideoProcAmp Interface IAMCameraControl gives you access to typedef enum { CameraControl_Pan = 1, CameraControl_Tilt, CameraControl_Roll, CameraControl_Zoom, CameraControl_Exposure, CameraControl_Iris, CameraControl_Focus } CameraControlProperty; IAMVideoProcAmp gives you access to typedef enum tagVideoProcAmpProperty { VideoProcAmp_Brightness, VideoProcAmp_Contrast, VideoProcAmp_Hue, VideoProcAmp_Saturation, VideoProcAmp_Sharpness, VideoProcAmp_Gamma, VideoProcAmp_ColorEnable, VideoProcAmp_WhiteBalance, VideoProcAmp_BacklightCompensation, VideoProcAmp_Gain } VideoProcAmpProperty;

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[Anonymous]

Thank you for the help but I am unable to locate included in stdafx.h

[Anonymous]

i meant gdiplus.h

[csc]

ok, got the problem .... i've downloaded that source and the needed gdiplus files are not included. So try this ... there is an other article named hints get GDI+ running here at codeproject : http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/codemaze.asp http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/CodeMaze/GDI+Files.zip The download file is about 1 MB big, but includes a complete gdi+ version (gdiplus*.* => dll, lib, headers). I have not tried to merge both projects and re-compile the exe, but if there are problems you may ask PJ Naughter directly for a hint.