activeX communicate with laptop Camera CVI

[Idolized]

For a school project I need to communicate  my laptop camera.

It doesn't have a .dll file , 

All I know is that I would probably have to do this with activex. 

can I have some guideness on how  to create the connection between activex and laptops camera 

thanks in advance 

[Dafrizzy]

Yes, you would probably have to do this by integrating an ActiveX control in CVI. I've provided some links below that may help you learn how to integrate ActiveX controls.

"Audio recording LabWindows/CVI" (useful info about ActiveX controls with a webcam though): https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabWindows-CVI/Audio-recording-LabWindows-CVI/td-p/3250706

"ActiveX control overview": http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/370051V-01/cvi/uiref/cviactivex_control_overview/

"Programming with ActiveX Controls": http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/370051AG-01/cvi/uiref/cviprogramming_with_activex_controls/

Hope this helps!

[Idolized]

Thank you very much

do you know what is the name of the control I need to add In order to control my laptop camera ?

[Dafrizzy]

I had some trouble finding info on this for working with C as most of the examples are related to .NET. However, I stumbled across this forum post which also provides a lot of good resources for how to set this up in LabWindows.

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabWindows-CVI/How-do-I-take-a-picture-from-usb-camera-using-the-Windows-Im...

This KB especially seems helpful as it outlines how to use the ActiveX Controller Wizard to Generate Code in LabWindows/CVI