Re: Win32

["Jeff C," <jcreem@yahoo.com>]

"Jerry van Dijk" <somename@nospam.demon.nl> wrote in message
news:m2u11y3aic.fsf@jvdsys.demon.nl...
>
> "Brian Catlin" <BrianC@sannas.org.bad> writes:
>
> > I need to write an image processing app that reads frames from an Intel
CS330
> > USB camera on WinXP.  I was planning on using either the Windows Image
> > Acquisition (WIA) APIs or the TWAIN APIs.
>
> Hmmm, I am not familiar with this camera, but TWAIN is by now obsolete.
> >
> > Can someone recommend a Win32 binding (thick or thin)?  I looked on
AdaPower,
> > but a lot of the information on Win32 is a few years old, and may not be
up to
> > date
>
> Unfortunately the Ada community is not interested in the Win32 API. Your
best
> bet is either to write the code in another language (for example, c++) and
> compile it to an Ada usable DLL, or construct a binding yourself to that
part
> of the Win32 API you need.
>
> -- 


Try getting something that has a COM interface and auto generate a binding
with bindcom (from www.adapower.com)

For example, running the dll inside the library here

http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/imageapi/mswaidll.htm

produced a pretty readable binding. (assuming you are used to win32 code)