Can you provide me a function to get the current USB webcam image into a allegro's BITMAP pointer? If it's too complicated a url so I can make it by myself does it.

Not even Yoda could have understood that one.

Which OS?

(laughs) "If (you can't give me the function ready to use because of programming ethics etc), (providing me) a (link) so I can make (the function) by myself (is enough)."

OS Windows XP.

http://www.google.com/ is a good URL. Try that one.

If the webcam saves an image every few seconds to a file then just use the appropriate allegro load function.

If it does something else then you'll need to know the interface/format for your webcam.

Neil Walker, but MSN, for instance, can access the webcam regardless of it's type, so I suppose there's some default way to access it and consequently a function to convert it to an allegros bitmap pointer.

X-G for instance is probably too smart to answer and he wants me to search because he thinks I'm lazy and haven't done it enough. Maybe he's really so smart that he can get the answer in google in few seconds and he thinks everyone is so smart as him. Or maybe he is just bad and will fell exited with the idea someone's spending hour in search of an something. Anyway he'll not tell me the answer so his post was just as useless for this thread.

I don't remember the API calls anymore, but I read through the code for Dorgem to learn how to get the data. It'll give you a Windows bitmap, I believe, which you'll need to convert somehow. The specifics escape me now, as it was years ago when I did this...

That's a good start, thank you.
EDIT: Oh god enormous source :\

I posted google.com because you obviously are too lazy to just google for it. There are millions of webcam APIs out there. We're not here to perform menial tasks for you; if you can't even punch in a simple google search like "webcam api", don't expect to ever be able to make anything serious. Honestly... I say this because I care. It may not seem like it. But you'll be a million times better off in the long run if you learn how to fish instead of asking random strangers for fish all the time.

There's even a program that does this in the depot, I think Johan Halmen made it, but I don't know if source is available.

If I won't be able to do anything serious, so what? I asked for you to teach me programming? Did I say I am a programmer? Did I say I WANT to be a programmer and do something serious someday? What if i just want THIS app? Also did I ask for a webcam api? I asked for a function specific to allegro and I [b]HAVE SEARCHED[/b] and I did not find, and I'm sure [b]you[/b] are NOT capable of finding it randomly in google without lots of works and maybe having to write some code and do conversions because it's NOT something easy to find and actually maybe it's not even done yet. But, of course, in the mind of someone like you, it's better to have the fuckin work than to ask to someone that ocasionally have done it already.

Do you even know that when you google for something like that, 90% of what you get is actually topics like this asking something and answers of fags like yours asking to google it? Do you know THIS page someday will appaer on google and many people not so 'lazy' as I am will be without answer because of you? So, congratulations.

Do you want to know why I want this fuckin app? It's to aid someone that lost his arms movements making a program so he can control the computer someway. There are some programs out there but he's not doing well with them.
But unhappily I'm too lazy and I have to work every night and study every day so I have no time to search and search for something so abstract and difficult as that and I though 'if someone had already had this problem it would save me LOTS of time'. I actually could have it finished today if I had the function. But no, okay. Fuck it and thank you very much.

You sure this thread doesn't help? There's also a link to the utility FunKamtools, it comes with the source as well.

Okay, someone has more than a few anger issues, I see. Dude, chill. You're on a programming forum. On a site dedicated to a programming library. Populated entirely by programmers. In the subforum called "Programming Questions". Asking a question about programming. I think everyone assumes you're a programmer under those conditions.

I hope you'll find something you can use, I really do. Even more importantly, something which you can learn something from. But responding to honest attempts at help with personal insults and sexual slurs is not nice, and it's not productive. So calm down, and be polite instead of biting the hand that feeds.

I'll be polite if you are nice. I was already expecting answers like yours and you must agree with me that you didn't add anything at all to the topic. Don't you agree?

Dario ff those does help and are what I had before I made the topic. If nobody comes with a better answer I'll be working on that. Thanks.

No, I don't agree at all. I think my answer is the only "teach a man to fish" answer among a sea of "here's your fish" answers, which are, ultimately, harmful to you. For that matter, I am nice. Don't confuse a firm grandmotherly hand with being rude.

Why'd you teach a man to fish if he's not a fisherman and needs the fish just once in his life? Your concepts of right and wrong are totally screwed.

Weren't you on a fishing expedition for information? Surely at some point in the future you will want to find more information, such as how to program when you get to that stage of your project....

It always helps to know what to search for. When I was looking for an example of capturing webcam data, I Googled for "open source webcam software".

No, you're just a damned fool who is clearly incapable of abstract/critical thinking.

As mentioned before, you are biting the hand that feeds.

What those two said. You may not realize it, but you are a fisherman, and if you want to accomplish what you're setting out to do, you will need to know how to fish. What would you have done if someone had pointed you to a library, but you didn't understand the documentation? Asked for help again? What if it doesn't compile the first time; ask for help again? And again and again and again, every time some new issue pops up that a five-minute Google search could have answered for you...

EDIT: NVM, said something stupid.

I'm with X-G.

I think the hot weather is making some of us nervous.

A cup of tea, maybe ?

So I'll bite again and again, because that's not the kind of help I give when I'm asked, so I'm not obliged to like to receive it.
If someone wants to help me I'd be very happy to receive the answer. If everyone thinks I'm a fag and doesn't reserve it, that's ok, I understand.

No one ever said this. Now you're just attacking yourself out of self-pity and paranoia; which I guarantee you, isn't the path to your answers.

I don't think you're a fag. But I don't get it, what's the problem? Doesn't FunKamTools work well for you? It's open source, and it's done in Allegro, that's clearly the best option I could find. Or it doesn't work for your hardware? Does it really need to be made with Allegro?

I can't really help much since I don't have a webcam. Regarding "fishing once", who knows, you might find it more fun to search and develop it yourself, but if you're in a hurry, isn't some pre-made software a better choice?

I've found that sometimes, asking for what you're trying to achieve rather than something specific can yield much better results.

Don't know yet, I'll compile it whenever I have some free time and I answer you. Anyway your kindness is awesome thank you very much =)

I'd expect them too if I asked poorly worded questions.

So now who doesn't speak english so well as you doesn't deserve a good answer? OK.

Then post the question in the best English you can and its Portuguese equivalent. We like people who make an honest effort.

I wasn't referring to the bad grammar, I was referring to the manner in which you were asking for help. You provide no information as to the nature of the problem, yet expect a magic answer, then get pissy when you don't get what you want. If you'd worded your query in a respectful and useful way, you would have gotten better help from the start.

So how you guessed I speak portuguese?

Your profile says you're from Brazil.

Fixed.

HAHAHAHA ! It made my day ! I can go and sleep now I have that smile on my face ^^

OK.
But again, what's so wrong in giving a 'magic answer'? Why all that will of making someone work instead of just giving him the answer? I know it can be important for one in his learning process, but is it really necessary for someone that just, just needs this specific answer?
And sorry for going a bit off topic, but I'm kinda happy you know at least the language we speak here... though you probably still think we got snakes, monkeys and other animals running all around, that Amazon is next to Rio de Janeiro, that our womans walk naked in the beach, etc., like that movie you've done, I am right?

Why? Because you live in Brazil? I live in Kentucky, do you think I've got rednecks and hill billies running all around. And that people walk around barefoot while doing farmwork. Well, if you do, you're right.

Because usually someone asking questions here is trying to learn to be a programmer. Just giving them the answers doesn't help them learn. You didn't say anything about not wanting to learn programming, so we just assumed that you did.

People don't learn that way.

Answer his original question or don't reply.

"Now what was the value of Pi again?"
"I could tell you that. But have you heard the saying 'Give a man a fish...'"
"For Heaven's sake! Ok, I guess I have to dig up my Mathematical Tables from somewhere... No wait, I lended it to Barry."
"See what you did? You gave him a fish. Instead you..."
"Shut up! Ok, so you want to teach me to fish. What shall I do?"
"Well, you can calculate the value of Pi."
"How?"
"There are some methods. Some series converge to Pi."
"What are the series?"
"I could tell you that. But it would be like giving you a fish and..."

Really? My post got deleted? All I did was quote the answer someone gave to the original question, since it had apparently gotten lost in all the other posts.