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author | Matthias Vogelgesang <matthias.vogelgesang@gmail.com> | 2012-09-19 18:25:22 +0200 |
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committer | Matthias Vogelgesang <matthias.vogelgesang@gmail.com> | 2012-09-19 18:25:22 +0200 |
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diff --git a/docs/manual.md b/docs/manual.md index 69abae8..584da8f 100644 --- a/docs/manual.md +++ b/docs/manual.md @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ necessary header files: ~~~ {.c} #include <glib-object.h> +#include <uca-plugin-manager.h> #include <uca-camera.h> ~~~ @@ -116,6 +117,7 @@ Then you need to setup the type system: int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { + UcaPluginManager *manager; UcaCamera *camera; GError *error = NULL; /* this _must_ be set to NULL */ @@ -124,10 +126,12 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[]) Now you can instantiate new camera _objects_. Each camera is identified by a human-readable string, in this case we want to access any pco camera that is -supported by [libpco][]: +supported by [libpco][]. To instantiate a camera we have to create a plugin +manager first: ~~~ {.c} - camera = uca_camera_new ("pco", &error); + manager = uca_plugin_manager_new (); + camera = uca_plugin_manager_new_camera (manager, "pco", &error); ~~~ Errors are indicated with a returned value `NULL` and `error` set to a value @@ -252,38 +256,19 @@ communicate with the camera. Now we will go into more detail. We have already seen how to instantiate a camera object from a name. If you have more than one camera connected to a machine, you will most likely want the user decide which to use. To do so, you can enumerate all camera strings with -`uca_camera_get_types`: +`uca_plugin_manager_get_available_cameras`: ~~~ {.c} - gchar **types; + GList *types; - types = uca_camera_get_types (); + types = uca_camera_get_available_cameras (manager); - for (guint i = 0; types[i] != NULL; i++) - g_print ("%s\n", types[i]); + for (GList *it = g_list_first; it != NULL; it = g_list_next (it)) + g_print ("%s\n", (gchar *) it->data); - /* free the string array */ - g_strfreev (types); -~~~ - -If you _know_ which camera you want to use you can instantiate the sub-classed -camera object directly. In this case we create a pco-based camera: - -~~~ {.c} -#include <glib-object.h> -#include <uca/uca-camera-pco.h> - -int -main (int argc, char *argv[]) -{ - UcaPcoCamera *camera; - GError *error = NULL; - - g_type_init (); - camera = uca_pco_camera_new (&error); - g_object_unref (camera); - return 0; -} + /* free the strings and the list */ + g_list_foreach (types, (GFunc) g_free, NULL); + g_list_free (types); ~~~ [last section]: #first-look-at-the-api |