/// <summary>
/// Initializes camera and parses configuration to set camera parameters.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>Different parameters are separated by semicolon (;), entries for list-parameters are separated by vertical hyphen (|).</remarks>
public SimpleViewer()
{
InitializeComponent();
// load camera DLL
try
{
CameraManagement.ScanForCameraDLLs = false;
CameraManagement.ScanAssembly(Properties.Settings.Default.CameraDLLPath);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show("Could not load camera library " + Properties.Settings.Default.CameraDLLPath + Environment.NewLine + ex.Message, "Error");
buttonConfigure.Enabled = false;
buttonConnect.Enabled = false;
return;
}
// construct camera object
string dummy;
try
{
cam = CameraManagement.GetCameraInstanceByName(Properties.Settings.Default.CameraName, out dummy);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show("Could not initialize camera driver." + Environment.NewLine + ex.Message, "Error");
buttonConfigure.Enabled = false;
buttonConnect.Enabled = false;
return;
}
buttonConnect.Text = txtConnect;
try
{
// set pre-connect parameters
string[] preConnectSettings = Properties.Settings.Default.PreConnectParameters.Split(new char[] { ';' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
foreach (string preConnectSetting in preConnectSettings)
{
string[] settingNameValuePair = preConnectSetting.Split('=');
MetriCam2.Camera.ParamDesc param = cam.GetParameter(settingNameValuePair[0]);
if (param.Type == typeof(string))
{
cam.SetParameter(settingNameValuePair[0], settingNameValuePair[1]);
}
else if (param.Type == typeof(List <string>))
{
List <string> paramValue = new List <string>(settingNameValuePair[1].Split(new char[] { '|' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries));
cam.SetParameter(settingNameValuePair[0], paramValue);
}
else
{
// if this doesn't work, additional conversion should be tried.
cam.SetParameter(settingNameValuePair[0], settingNameValuePair[1]);
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show("Setting pre-connect parameters failed." + Environment.NewLine + ex.Message, "Error");
buttonConfigure.Enabled = false;
buttonConnect.Enabled = false;
return;
}
}
