Chapter 2: Building an application

This chapter shows you the basics in building an application.

• Organization of the MIL modules
• • Similar MIL functions in different modules
  • • Processing and analysis modules
  • Interactive functionality
• Allocating an application context and its systems
• • Mandatory allocations for an application context
  • Board-type versus Host-type systems
  • Multiple systems
  • Remote systems
• Allocating, displaying, and annotating an image buffer
• • Allocating an image buffer
  • Displaying an image buffer
  • Annotating an image on display
• Grabbing images
• • Continuous grabbing and adjusting your camera
  • Sequential grabbing
  • An example
• Pixel and real-world units
• Child buffers, regions of interest, and fixturing
• • Child buffers
  • Regions of interest
  • Fixturing an object with the relative coordinate system
• Dealing with color
• • Grabbing
  • • Mapping grabbed data through a LUT
  • Displaying
  • Managing color images
  • Color processing and analysis
  • • Converting color images to grayscale
    • Creating a child buffer from one of the three color bands
    • Copying one of the three color bands to a 1-band buffer
• Using the defaults
• • Using the MILConfig utility to change your default settings
  • Using your defaults
• Error reporting
• Multiple systems
• MIL custom data types, extensions, and portability functions
• • MIL custom data types
  • M_MIL_USE_SAFE_TYPE extension
  • Portability functions
• Porting a 32-bit MIL application to MIL 64-bit
• • Modified functions
  • • Retrieving a pointer to a modified function
  • Void pointers
  • • M_MIL_USE_SAFE_TYPE extension
  • Project processor definitions
• MIL under Linux
• How to create a portable application
• MIL with .NET and Python
• • MIL with .NET
  • MIL with Python
• Using MIL add-on to Visual Studio
• • MIL menu and toolbar
  • F1 contextual help
  • Statement completion