Ocean2013.1 provides a sample(WheelerViewer) for using cameras(OpenInventor features) for 3D Windows, but is it possible to synchronize(equivalent of clicking the camera link toolbar option) multiple intersection windows in Ocean/Petrel programmatically?
Camera linking is available as a Petrel feature but not as a Ocean API for developer to access programmatically
You need to be mode specific on what you are trying to synchronize and why.
The Window3D exposes enough camera API that one can write his own camera view synchronization.
If all you want is to be able to click the "Synchronize camera" button via API, it's a different issue. Why do you need this? Often users ask to be able to link all windows with one mouse button click. This, I believe, might be coming in 2015 as a user feature.
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Is it possible to take screenshot of Petrel's child windows (programmatically) from the plugin using Ocean 2014.1? At the moment, I can save BMP for Window3D and EMF for other derives of ToggleWindow and read them again from my plugin, but, this doesn't work for all Petrel's child windows. Also, I would prefer to get raster image (like what I get when I push on Camera button action in Clipboard action group, Home tab) and support other windows like Histogram Window, Plot Window, etc.
Unfortunately I don't think Ocean has a common API that does what you want.
As you found out, some windows have methods that allow you to capture an Image dump of the window, but it is far from being generic.
I've been playing with a generic usb camera to take snapshots every few seconds. With the help of this SO question, I was able to get the camera working; however, when you click the button to connect to the camera, a dialog box appears.
The difference between the other question and my question is that I have two video sources: a built in webcam and a usb camera. I also intend to have multiple cameras connected, all taking pictures. It appears that when you have multiple devices, you always get the dialog box where you have to choose the device. I'm trying to automatically choose the camera (and eventually cameras, plural) without this dialog box.
There are other pieces of sample code that I have played with - samples that have a device listbox that is populated; I thought this was what I needed (and I'd just remove the listbox control and process the list and what to connect to in code), but every one of these samples populates the listbox with "Microsoft WDM Image Capture (Win32)" instead of the devices listed in the dialog after attempting to connect to this "device."
Surely there's a way to automate the webcam(s) I'm connecting to instead of having to choose it from a dropdown in a Windows dialog, right? How would I go about doing this?
The solution ultimately was to use EMGU to access the camera; this also allows for connecting to multiple cameras at the same time.
Can anyone enlighten me as to how one would be able to trigger a "non standard" realtime notification on a Windows 8 machine? My objective here was simply to find a slick method through which the end user is presented with an enhanced notification slide displayed via a slide in/5 second fade out dialog box.
Best example I can think of to illustrate what I am trying to achieve would be thinking of it like when the charms bar is presented which can automatically fade away. I simply require that this enhanced notification layer is somewhat customizable in order for me to provide summary content along with 3-4 buttons a user can press directly. This notifications needs to be triggered automatically upon the system receiving a push notification.
I have loomed into various "notification" methods such as default windows notifications, offline Google Apps notifications,... problem however is that they all seem not to allow me to customize the notification window to meet my needs.
Any suggestions / examples would be very helpful.
BTW - as an alternative solution - is there simply a way that I might be able to have Windows automatically load and "snap" into view the contents of a specific Windows app containing my content to the left or right side of the screen (upon receiving a push notification vs displaying the standard toast bubble?
Are you looking for something like growl?
I just want to know, is it possible to open camera instance and take a picture online.
in other words, if i have an app has an access to the internet can i create a button to open the camera and take a picture while i'm being online?
Why not instead just use the toImage() function of all views (including a WebView) that Titanium provides. This will give you a screenshot.
I'm trying to find a way to get a live view of a specific window. In the same way that Mission Control and Exposé will show you live views of windows that are currently obscured by other windows (this is also done by Hyperdock, so I'm pretty certain that its not a private API).
What is the functionality called? And so where is the documentation on it?
You want the Quartz Window Services API. Basically, you want to create a window list with the windows you're interested in and use CGWindowListCreateImage to get a picture of the window's contents.