Camera API Technical Report:
Convenience Functions

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Convenience Functions

In many cases all that is required is a particular value for example the current width if a window. With the basic functions for retrieving values this means defining a variable in order to pass to the GetVal procedure. For convenience and a number of functions have been defined which return the required value directly. In each case the single argument of the function is a camera pointer. The functions are:

#include <camera.h>

char *CameraName( camera );
int   CameraWinMinX( camera );
int   CameraWinMinY( camera );
int   CameraWinMaxX( camera );
int   CameraWinMaxY( camera );
int   CameraWinMinWidth( camera );
int   CameraWinMinHeight( camera );
int   CameraWinMaxWidth( camera );
int   CameraWinMaxHeight( camera );
int   CameraWinX( camera );
int   CameraWinY( camera );
int   CameraWinWidth( camera );
int   CameraWinHeight( camera );
int   CameraMinExposure( camera );
int   CameraMaxExposure( camera );
int   CameraExposure( camera );
int   CameraDataSize( camera );



Richard Baldock
1998-07-02