How can I automate setting the draw region of the camera control to 100 pixel square on live images?

ChrisM

I am guessing it is something to do with mcatSubRegion but I don't know how to set the co-ordinates and width with height programmatically.  I cannot find documentation on MediaCy.IQL  mcatSubRegion.

TreyM

You are correct that the mcatSubRegion attribute will set the capture region. However, there is a higher level method that is easier to implement that contains all of the commonly used camera settings. The macro script below shows how to set the capture region to (0, 0, 100, 100) for preview and (0, 0, 200, 200) for capture. Note that if you have capture and preview settings locked, than the last set value will apply for both of them. In this case then it would be (0, 0, 200, 200) if the lock was active.

    Public Function CaptRegion() As SimpleScript
        CaptRegion = New SimpleScript

        With Capture.CaptureCommands.Settings(CaptRegion)
            .PreviewSettings = True
            .SubRegion = New System.Drawing.Rectangle(0, 0, 100, 100)
            .Run()
        End With

        With Capture.CaptureCommands.Settings(CaptRegion)
            .PreviewSettings = False
            .SubRegion = New System.Drawing.Rectangle(0, 0, 200, 200)
            .Run()
        End With

    End Function

ChrisM

Many thanks Yuri this just what I need.

Best wishes,

Chris

ChrisM

Many thanks Trey - now all I have to do is figure out how to get the individual pixel intensity data in to a 2 dimensional array so I can edit by row or column

YuriG

Chris, 

The easiest way is to use Bitmap view (Image tab). It will give you a table of pixel intensities, which you can export to Excel.

Yuri

ChrisM

Hi Yuri - I am trying to automate some calculations and comparisons of pixel (100x100) intensity for up to 3 images and as part of this process I will want to strip off a column or a row of pixels and I think this will be easier to do by ReDim of a two dimensional array (Bitmap(X,Y) of the Bitmap integer data.  I don't know the command to access this live data as BitmapViewCommands appears to be about exporting ('Shelling') to other applications as opposed to an internal array variable.

YuriG

Hi Chris,

If you want to work with pixel intensities there are existing tools in Calc (Process tab) with full set of arithmetical and logical operations.

If you want to use your own routines you can use macro functions to access pixels, (GetArea). Here is the example:

    Public Sub ReadPixelIntensities
        Dim im As McImage=ThisApplication.ActiveImage
        If im Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
        If im.NumberOfChannels>1 Then Exit Sub'the sample is only for single channel images
        Dim pixValues As Object=Nothing
        'the function will read values to 2D array (or 3D for multi-channel images)
        im.GetArea(pixValues)
        'check dimensions
        Dim width As Integer=pixValues.GetUpperBound(0)+1
        Dim height As Integer=pixValues.GetUpperBound(1)+1
        For i As Integer=0 To height-1
            For j As Integer=0 To width-1
                'print values
                Debug.Print(String.Format("Value({0},{1})={2}",j,i,pixValues(j,i)))
            Next
        Next
    End Sub

 Regards,

Yuri