camera programming

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Nathan Franklin

hello all,

just quierying to see if anyone has done any form of camera programming on a
pda..

i am going to try and add a section into my app for photos...

but i understand there are many different camera brand SD addons and built
in cameras.....

so is there an easy way to do this?

has anyone got any samples or web references...

thanks very much

nath
 
This only becomes easy with Windows Mobile 5.0 devices since then there is a
standard API which will work on any camera equipped WM5.0 device.

If your intention is to support a range of built in and external cameras
this is probably a non-starter. The only library I've come across which
handles plug-in cameras is this one, but I've not used it myself:-
http://www.bistia.com/en/prod-cwcf.html

Peter
 
Hi Nath,

As Peter has replied some API's a provided under windows mobile 5 but
for PPC 2002, 2003 and 2003SE you have to buy a commercial library or
role your own.

I use a NexiCam from www.nexian.com. They provided me the SDK on request
with example C & vb programs for PPC. From this I was able to write a
C dll to operate the camera and a c# wrapper class to call this dll and
make it operate within the compact framework and the rest of my
application. It took about two days to develop and was a steep learning
about P/Invoke calls but well worth the effort.

Performance is not great due to the image arriving from the camera and
being rotated 90 degrees but it works and works well for the
applications where a camera is required.

Reagrds
Ryan
 
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