National Instruments Image Acquisition Software - Manual (Page 11)

Chapter 1 Introduction to NI-IMAQ
NI-IMAQ User Manual 1-2 © National Instruments Corporation
Application Development Environments
This release of NI-IMAQ supports the following Application Development
Environments (ADEs) for Windows 95 and Windows NT:
• LabVIEW version 4.x and higher
• LabWindows/CVI version 4.x and higher
• BridgeVIEW version 1.x and higher
• Borland C/C++ version 4.0 and higher
• Microsoft Visual C/C++ version 2.0 and higher
• Microsoft Visual Basic version 4.0 and higher
Note Although NI-IMAQ has been tested and found to work with these ADEs, other
ADEs or higher versions of the ADEs listed above may also work.
If you are using Visual Basic, NI-IMAQ support is provided by the
ComponentWorks IMAQ hardware interface control. Please consult the
ComponentWorks IMAQ Vision documentation for more information.
Files on the NI-IMAQ software media may be compressed. Always run the
NI-IMAQ installation utility to extract the files you want. For a brief
description of the directories produced by the install programs and the
names and purposes of the uncompressed files, consult the
readme.txt
file on your installation CD or diskettes.
Fundamentals of Building Applications with NI-IMAQ
The NI-IMAQ Libraries
The NI-IMAQ for Windows 95/NT function libraries are dynamic link
libraries (DLLs), which means that NI-IMAQ routines are not linked into
the executable files of applications. Only the information about the
NI-IMAQ routines in the NI-IMAQ import libraries is stored in the
executable files.
Import libraries contain information about their DLL-exported functions.
They indicate the presence and location of the DLL routines. Depending
on the development tools you are using, you may give the DLL routines
information through import libraries or through function declarations. Your
NI-IMAQ software kit contains function prototypes for all routines.
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