You're absolutely right. I spend a little time to test the Autoallocate property and draw the conclusion that it can't allocate the resources properly. I use Isallocate property to check if the resources have been allocated to avoid possible errors, and it works well.
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:36:55 -0600 (CST), Tony Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I also use ActiveMIL. I have found it better to turn off automatic >allocation to all controls and programatically allocate them. This has >the benefit of giving you greater control to troubleshoot and process >errors or resets of the video system. I use allocate methods to >allocate each control and the free methods to disallocate (free) them >when an error occurs or a reset is issued. My systems are completely >stable. I would recommend that you don=92t use grabcontinuous. >Synchronize the video to your program by calling grabs as you need >them. I typically have a video processing vi that runs independent of >my test executor and all other vis and use notifiers to publish the >video data of interest. I typically grab images at 60 msec rate with a >40% CPU usage on a 1 GHz processor. This gives me every other frame >from the camera, fast enough for all my applications and leaves me 60% >CPU for other procesing.
