Re: IDL and ActiveX CCD camera [message #31712 is a reply to message #31580] |
Sat, 03 August 2002 05:50  |
ronn
Messages: 123 Registered: April 1999
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in article %sF29.100$15.30244@news.uchicago.edu, Mark Rivers at
rivers@cars.uchicago.edu wrote on 8/2/02 8:28 PM:
> I have tried using the COM/ActiveX interface in IDL 5.5 to talk to CCD
> cameras from Roper Scientific (formerly Princeton Instruments) using their
> COM interface. Basically it does not work from IDL, while it works fine
> from Visual Basic.
>
Along those lines I have been using the activeX interface to send commands
through the serial port using the MScomm32 COM object. For some reason this
will not work until you install Visual C++ (I haven't tried Visual Basic)
and then uninstall everything but the active X components. This has
happened to me 4 times now so the behavior is consistent between windows NT,
2000 and XP. Other than that, these new COM and activeX interfaces have
been working beautifully for me.
-Ronn
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email: ronn@rlkling.com
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