Case study : STI Image Acquisition Component
IMPORTANT note about the project
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- Company
The company is a Medical Imaging Product development company based in Australia.
- Industry
Medical
- Platform
C++
- Business Challenge
The client was developing a product, in which they needed to capture the images from different devices like camera, Scanners supporting STI Framework.
- Solution
The solution was to develop an ActiveX component wrapping the STI Image Acquisition API, so that the end product need not know the intricacies of the API involved.
The ActiveX component registers the application (which contains it) as STI event listener, and thrown an event when any event occurs on the specified device.
- Features List
1. Registers Application in the STI control Panel
2. Handles all events from the specified devices and throws relevant events
3. Easy to use interface
- Techniques Used
1. ActiveX
2. COM3. Inter Process Communication4. Windows Messaging