Re: [gphoto-devel] Urgent - Searching for code for libgphoto2

[Marcus M. <marcus@>]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:48:46PM +0200, Jens Buchner wrote:
> Dear developers of gphoto
> 
> I am working with the libgphoto2 and gphoto2 code at the moment and I 
> want to use the libgphoto2 library for a scientific experiment. I want 
> to write my own library for our specific cameras (which are supported by 
> libgphoto2) with standard methods such as: taking a picture, download 
> all files, delete all files, do adjustments. The aim is to be able to 
> control the cameras from a C++ control program of the experiment. Since 
> the documentation of the libgphoto2 library is quiet hard to access for 
> me, I wanted to use the source-code of the gphoto2 package as a 
> guideline. But this really did work out well. I tried to copy/modify the 
> functions of gphoto2. Trying to avoid to write the whole code by my 
> selve I used some data structures from gphoto2. While including the 
> corresponding files I, some dependencies were not fulfilled and I was 
> not able to find the necessary files. So I wanted to ask if you might 
> have an example of working code (which only relies on libgphoto2 and not 
> on gphoto2), with some methods like the once above. The onliest code 
> like this that I found on the web is this one (from the gphoto website): 
> http://ufies.org/~christophe/gphoto2/slide-06.php. But this one is old 
> and does not work anymore.

There are various people who written C programs using libgphoto2 to
do such things, however they have not published their sourcecode.
(If they are reading here, perhaps they can post a link to their sources.)

So gphoto2 is currently the reference.

I am meanwhile trying to program some sample C snippets doing
common things.

Ciao, Marcus