Abeocracy

Hello,

Welcome to my weekly address to the PyGame Nation. This is the first of many entries about my work on the camera module for Mac OSX.

This week I have written the following 'simple' functions:

• mac_list_camera:
  On the module for Linux, a list of available cameras in made by trying out every potential device. On the OSX module I use the FindNextComponent function to search for Components of the SeqGrabComponentType type.
• mac_device_open:
  A simple function that open a camera, it uses OpenComponent.
• mac_device_close:
  A simple function that closes a camera, it uses CloseComponent.

The remaining time I have spend on build problems and bugs :(

Schedule for next week

The coming week I will spend my time on defining and implementing a camera class specific to Mac OSX, because the existing class is to much intertwined with v4l. When I have done that I will be able to integrate the above functions into the python module.

As usual you can follow my progress on my github account

PS I still have to add a comment system to this blog, so if you would like to comment on something I suggest you do this on the pygame mailing list.