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The code below will show the webcams image into a picturebox and can be saved with the use of a savebutton.
'Impression of the preview screen' Imports System.IO
Public Class FrmCap
'Create constant using attend in function of DLL file.
Const CAP As Short = &H400S
Const CAP_DRIVER_CONNECT As Integer = CAP + 10
Const CAP_DRIVER_DISCONNECT As Integer = CAP + 11
Const CAP_EDIT_COPY As Integer = CAP + 30
Const CAP_SET_PREVIEW As Integer = CAP + 50
Const CAP_SET_PREVIEWRATE As Integer = CAP + 52
Const CAP_SET_SCALE As Integer = CAP + 53
Const WS_CHILD As Integer = &H40000000
Const WS_VISIBLE As Integer = &H10000000
Const SWP_NOMOVE As Short = &H2S
Const SWP_NOSIZE As Short = 1
Const SWP_NOZORDER As Short = &H4S
Const HWND_BOTTOM As Short = 1
Dim iDevice As Integer = 0 ' Normal device ID
Dim hHwnd As Integer ' Handle value to preview window
' Declare function from AVI capture DLL.
Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" _
(ByVal hwnd As Integer, ByVal wMsg As Integer, ByVal wParam As Integer, _
ByVal lParam As Object) As Integer
Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowPos" (ByVal hwnd As Integer, _
ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Integer, ByVal x As Integer, ByVal y As Integer, _
ByVal cx As Integer, ByVal cy As Integer, ByVal wFlags As Integer) As Integer
Declare Function DestroyWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hndw As Integer) As Boolean
Declare Function capCreateCaptureWindowA Lib "avicap32.dll" _
(ByVal lpszWindowName As String, ByVal dwStyle As Integer, _
ByVal x As Integer, ByVal y As Integer, ByVal nWidth As Integer, _
ByVal nHeight As Short, ByVal hWndParent As Integer, _
ByVal nID As Integer) As Integer
Private Sub OpenForm()
Dim iHeight As Integer = picCapture.Height
Dim iWidth As Integer = picCapture.Width
' Open Preview window in picturebox .
' Create a child window with capCreateCaptureWindowA so you can display it in a picturebox.
hHwnd = capCreateCaptureWindowA(iDevice, WS_VISIBLE Or WS_CHILD, 0, 0, 640, _
480, picCapture.Handle.ToInt32, 0)
' Connect to device
If SendMessage(hHwnd, CAP_DRIVER_CONNECT, iDevice, 0) Then
' Set the preview scale
SendMessage(hHwnd, CAP_SET_SCALE, True, 0)
' Set the preview rate in milliseconds
SendMessage(hHwnd, CAP_SET_PREVIEWRATE, 66, 0)
' Start previewing the image from the camera
SendMessage(hHwnd, CAP_SET_PREVIEW, True, 0)
' Resize window to fit in picturebox
SetWindowPos(hHwnd, HWND_BOTTOM, 0, 0, picCapture.Width, picCapture.Height, _
SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOZORDER)
Else
' Error connecting to device close window
DestroyWindow(hHwnd)
End If
End Sub
' Use SendMessage to copy the data to the clipboard Then transfer the image to the picture box.
Private Sub btnSave_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSave.Click
Dim data As IDataObject
Dim bmap As Image
' Copy image to clipboard
SendMessage(hHwnd, CAP_EDIT_COPY, 0, 0)
' Get image from clipboard and convert it to a bitmap
data = Clipboard.GetDataObject()
If data.GetDataPresent(GetType(System.Drawing.Bitmap)) Then
bmap = CType(data.GetData(GetType(System.Drawing.Bitmap)), Image)
picCapture.Image = bmap
Dim saveFileDialog1 As New SaveFileDialog()
saveFileDialog1.Filter = "Jpeg Image|*.jpg|Bitmap Image|*.bmp|Gif Image|*.gif"
saveFileDialog1.Title = "Save an Image File"
saveFileDialog1.FileName = "Image001"
saveFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
' If the file name is not an empty string open it for saving.
If saveFileDialog1.FileName <> "" Then
' Saves the Image via a FileStream created by the OpenFile method.
Dim fs As System.IO.FileStream = CType _
(saveFileDialog1.OpenFile(), System.IO.FileStream)
picCapture.Image.Save(fs, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg)
fs.Close()
End If
End If
End Sub
Private Sub frmcap_Leave(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Leave
' Disconnect from device
SendMessage(hHwnd, CAP_DRIVER_DISCONNECT, iDevice, 0)
' close window
DestroyWindow(hHwnd)
End Sub
Private Sub FRMCAP_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
OpenForm()
End Sub
End Class
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Comments
plz help
thanks i wait for face detection code
very nice coding, simpler but stronger...
If any one download it from this site use latest version vis studio, it wont open in 2005. So just copy the code and align it, it will work nice in 2005 too.
U can use it one time, close and if u Restart it will not work. Im looking arround quiet a time and there seems to be no solution.
Any thoughts, ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks
John
very much useful
Thanks.
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