Re: plugIn for FireWire Camera

Posted by Gabriel Landini on Nov 23, 2006; 3:32pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/plugIn-for-FireWire-Camera-tp3700940p3700943.html

On Thursday 23 November 2006 14:27, David Hitrys wrote:
> QImaging (warning: I work for QImaging), makes a line of FireWire cameras
> that come with an ImageJ plugin.  The plugin allows fo racquisition of
> images directly into ImageJ.

David,

Now that you mention this (I bought on of those cameras), do you have any say
in the way that the plugin is being developed?

I have 3 suggestions:

1. One of the problems is that the plugin would benefit enormously from being
able to be controlled from either the macro language or a plugin (currently
one cannot do this). For instance I would like very much to be able to
trigger a shot from the macro language, and to be able to set the other
controls too. At the moment I wrote and I am using the IJ_Robot plugin to do
it, but it is a pain regarding the positioning of the windows. This also
prevents to develop more complex plugins that include image capturing.

2. Another problem is that the plugin does not allow to do average capture
(while the Windows program can). Not sure why, the option for doing average
capture is grey (and not functional) when using the plugin.

3. Please, please provide a linux version of the plugin. QImaging provides a
linux SDK, but this does not seem to work in suse 10.1.

Please feel free to contact me off-line if you want more specific details.

Regards,

Gabriel