@swasa wrote:
This post is quite Old :D. I am trying to do the same thing. Its going to take time to develop the LabVIEW drivers from scratch.
Can any one please share the LabVIEW drivers if they have already worked on it ?
I also go and revive again this old discussion. Well, it made me a bit pessimistic 😄
Anyway, the story short: I inherited a bunch of VIs, which are used in an application which I need to refactor. The whole application is a nightmare, so we decided to create a new project from scratch.
Right now we started to develop the hardware libraries. We have a couple of CCD cameras in the system, which we need to communicate with from LabVIEW. The old LV application used here in the lab produces random and unexpected errors, and we suspect that one reason is the wrongly used DLLs for these CCD cameras.
Right now I am preparing to test and review LV code which should control a Princeton Instruments PIXIS CCD camera. I inherited some VIs and a DLL (pvcam32.dll) which are recently used in the project. My task is to check whether these VIs introduce these crashes/unexpected camera behavior (wrong dll calls, memory leaks, etc?). I put all these recent VIs into a lvlib, plus the DLL, and zipped it up, find it attached. Since I have ~0 experience using DLLs from LV (specially no idea how to start troubleshooting), I would be very grateful to get any advice/hints!
As I read in this thread, I should also get my hand on some header files corresponding to this pvcam.dll (to be able to import the functions). Since I could not find such files in the inherited folders, I am right now requesting the "PVCAM SDK" from here, I hope I get it soon: https://www.qimaging.com/support/downloads/pvcam-sdk/
The zip also contains the "PVCAM 2.7 Software User Manual.pdf" manual beside the DLL file. So in the next days/weeks I need to enhance/fix these DLL calling VIs, and test it with the real hardware. If I get a fixed driver version later, I will be happy to share it with the community!
So, any help/suggestions are welcome! 🙂
