Simulate a frame grabber

[xl600]

Is there any way to simulate a frame grabber (Like a 1433) in LabView like one can do with DAQmx devices?  I need to develop and test VIs that would use this on another machine, but my development machine is a simple laptop.

Thanks,

XL600

[Reyquaza]

XL600,

Unfortunately, there isn't a way to simulate a frame grabber in LabVIEW. If you want to test Vision Acquisition code, you will need hardware. If you want to test image processing and analysis, you can use IMAQ Read Image to read an image from a file and use it to test your code.

[xl600]

That's too bad.  It'd be a very good addition to IMAQ if NI could support HW simulation like DAQmx does.

Regardless, I coded a test image and a merged overlay (Frame number) to simulate incoming frames.  Conditional disables around the actual acquisition VIs and insertion of the simulated results and frames seems to work pretty well (Though very slow in comparison to pulling frames from the HW).

Thanks,

XL600