[snoopy11]

You cant with this api,

for a more modern approach please see my other webcam program

http://www.dreaminco...-c-for-windows/

where you can get rid of the need to choose a camera if you wish.

However remember, it is good practice to allow the user to choose a camera.

Regards

Snoopy.

[DussanR]

Oh thanks anyways! And is there any way i can edit the capture, like adding a red line in the middle of the capture before saving it as a file in my project folder??

[snoopy11]

Yes with the new program you can do such a thing as overlays !

[adamchalkley]

Hi Snoopy,

reading the tutorial looks amazing,

this is something that I always wanted to experiment with but I have a question will this still work on a windows 10 machine?

I am using codeblocks IDE with a mingw32 compiler as mentioned on Windows 10

is it possible that any functions/procedures that are used in this tutorial are deprecated?

I hope to start on this tutorial tomorrow

[snoopy11]

adamchalkley, on 07 November 2018 - 08:47 PM, said:

Hi Snoopy,

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this is something that I always wanted to experiment with but I have a question will this still work on a windows 10 machine?

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is it possible that any functions/procedures that are used in this tutorial are deprecated?

It relies on old technology ie VFW running it from a laptop with a built-in webcam can give patchy results you must take into consideration I wrote this on Windows XP when windows XP was new and it was designed to run from a pc with a usb camera it still can run on windows 10 but results can be patchy as .

A more modern approach is found here

https://www.dreaminc...-c-for-windows/

It uses WMF which is not yet deprecated even under Windows 10.

VFW is supposed to be deprecated but if you have a usb camera then the program works fine.



Please read the new Tutorial properly though as it will only run under Visual Studio and not Code::Blocks this is due to VS specific headers and I have not translated the new tut to run under MinGW as of yet, I had given consideration to using TDM-GCC's version of MinGW but have not done so as yet.