Not even Yoda could have understood that one.

(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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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...

I'm with X-G.

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

A cup of tea, maybe ?

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.