Re: [pygame] progress on camera module

[Nirav Patel <olpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mac users who like to live on the bleeding edge of development or
would be interested in testing in a few weeks can get the code Werner
is writing from his git repository at http://github.com/ab3

Nirav

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:38 PM, el lauwer<el.lauwer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hoi,
>
> Nirav Patel asked me to post the info on my blog on this mailing list, so
> here is for those that who are interested:
>
> The past two weeks I was busy studying for my examinations, so I didn't have
> much time to work on my GSOC project.
> However I was able to do a lot of work to get the __PyCameraObject struct__
> integrated in the existing code and implemented some additional functions.
>
> Here is the definition of this struct, it isn't completed yet because some
> types I would like to put into it cause compile errors.
>
> **PyCameraObject:**
>
>    typedef struct {
>        PyObject_HEAD
>        char* device_name;              // unieke name of the device
>        SeqGrabComponent component;     // A type used by the Sequence
> Grabber API
>        SGChannel channel;              // Channel of the Sequence Grabber
>        GWorldPtr gWorld;               // Pointer to the struct that holds
> the data of the captured image
>        Rect boundsRect;                // bounds of the image frame
>    } PyCameraObject;
>
> In addition of implementing the __PyCameraObject struct__, I have writen the
> folowing functions.
>
> * **mac_device_init():**
> This function initializes the sequence grabber component and prepares it for
> capturing images.
> * **mac_device_close():**
> I have extended this function so it works with the __PyCameraObject
> struct__.
> * **mac_start_capturing():**
> At this moment this function
> * **camera_start():**
> This function just calls the above functions.
> * **camera_get_size():**
> Simple function that returns the size of the image frame.
>
> ###Schedule for this week
> This week I am planning to finish the __mac_start_capturing__ function so
> that I can capture images from my camera an put then in a SDL_Surface
> object.
>
>