Classes

A MultiCam class is a container for MultiCam parameters.

Each class is divided into categories, containing sets of MultiCam parameters serving a common goal. Those categories and parameters are fully described in the MultiCam Reference.

MultiCam classes

Class	Definition
Board	The board parameters control the common features of each board.
Channel	The channel parameters define and control every individual acquisition path.
Surface	The surface parameters define every image container defined inside the MultiCam system.
Configuration	The configuration parameters control the common features of the MultiCam system.

Creating an object is equivalent to instantiating a class. Creating an object of a specified class has the following effects:

A new object belonging to the class effectively exists.
This object has its own designating handle.
An additional set of parameters owned by the object is created.

One board object (a single instance of the Board class) exists for each Euresys board installed inside the host computer. One configuration object (a single instance of the Configuration class) exists within the host system. The board and configuration objects cannot be created by a user application. They natively exist when the application connects itself to the MultiCam driver.

The Channel and Surface classes can be instantiated by a user application as many times as needed, creating one or several objects sharing the common characteristics of the class. For example, the channel object will be created for every acquisition path that the user needs in the vision system to handle his application. For each channel instance, the application gets an independent set of control parameters.