Re: SensiCam camera capture
Posted by
John Cahill on
Jun 28, 2006; 7:30pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/no-subject-tp3702377p3702380.html
Hi Gabriel,
You may find a solution here.
http://macros.com/features.htmIt will depend on you being able to trigger the Macro Express macro
when required.
Perhaps by opening a dummy image window from imageJ?
Not pretty but it might just work!
cheers,
John Cahill
Carlisle, MA
On 6/24/06, Gabriel Landini <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> On Friday 23 June 2006 23:32, Girault France wrote:
> > In one of my previous post, I had a question for an automatisation of a
> > plugin (plugin for a SensiCam camera). I've played with the source code of
> > the plugin and now it seems to work quite well when I open it... It takes
> > automatically an image . Now I would like to let the plugin open while
> > making a loop constiting of the movement of a microscope stage (written in
> > the same macro that call my sensicam plugin). While the loop is running, I
> > would like to take images by calling the plugin again (which has to stay
> > open). On the interface of this sensicam plugin, capturing an image can be
> > done by clicking on a specific button.
>
> I want to solve a similar problem with the QImaging cameras plugin for IJ.
> The plugin seems to be a wrapper of their QCapture windows program (which is
> included in the CD that comes with the camera).
>
> Now the problem (which I think is similar to yours?) is to trigger the capture
> while the plugin is open.
> Just recording the launch of the plugin opens a different thread that waits
> for the user to push the "snap" button, so there is no way to snap an image
> from a macro. (I asked QI for such function to be added, but I guess that one
> has to wait and see...).
>
> I have been wondering (I know this is a very ugly solution) if there is some
> program that could be called from the macro language or from a plugin that
> emulates or records a click on the snap button. I remember in the early days
> of Windows there was some kind of macro recorder that could store this kind
> of cursor movement and action.
>
> This way, calling the recorded cursor movement/click would snap a new image
> each time.
> Is there such a program that runs on newer Windows versions?
>
> Any suggestions are welcome.
>
> Alternatively, if anybody has managed to run the QImaging SDK examples for
> linux, please drop me a note. (Can't make it work in SuSE 10.1).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gabriel
>
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