Tools To Control The Flea3 Gige; Using Flycapture; Flycap Program; Custom Applications Built With The Flycapture Api - Point Grey Flea3 GigE Technical Reference

Point Grey Flea3 GigE Technical Reference
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Tools to Control the Flea3 GigE

The Flea3 GigE's features can be accessed using various controls, including:
FlyCapture SDK including API examples and the FlyCap program
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GenICam Applications
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GigE Vision Bootstrap Registers
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Control and Status Registers
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Third-party Software Applications
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Examples of the controls are provided throughout this document. Additional information can be found in the
appendices.
3.1

Using FlyCapture

The user can monitor or control features of the camera through FlyCapture API examples provided in the FlyCapture
SDK, or through the FlyCap Program.
3.1.1

FlyCap Program

The FlyCap application is a generic, easy-to-use streaming image viewer included with the FlyCapture SDK that can be
used to test many of the capabilities of your compatible Point Grey camera. It allows you to view a live video stream
from the camera, save individual images, adjust the various video formats, frame rates, properties and settings of the
camera, and access camera registers directly. Consult the FlyCapture SDK Help for more information.
3.1.2

Custom Applications Built with the FlyCapture API

The FlyCapture SDK includes a full Application Programming Interface that allows customers to create custom
applications to control Point Grey Imaging Products. Included with the SDK are a number of source code examples to
help programmers get started.
FlyCapture API examples are provided for C, C++, C#, and VB.NET languages. There are also a number of precompiled
examples.
Code samples are provided in
Examples of basic programming tasks are described in
Revised 10/29/2013
Copyright ©2010-2013 Point Grey Research Inc.
FlyCapture API Code Samples.
FlyCapture SDK Examples
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