Problem with winEvent

[franco.amato]

Good morning,
I'm building a Qt application ( based on QDialog ) to catch and render frames from my uEye video camera ( IDS-Imaging ).
So I need to link with my application the sdk coming with the camera ( *.lib, *.h and relative dll ). Basically the sdk of the camera works with windows message ( that I would handle in the application and process ).
Firstly I have to initialize the camera and once I did it I install the messages I would catch so:

bool CameraView::EvInitAll()
{
	// Enable Messages
	is_EnableMessage( m_hCam, IS_DEVICE_REMOVED, reinterpret_cast<HWND>( this->winId() ) );
	is_EnableMessage( m_hCam, IS_DEVICE_RECONNECTED, reinterpret_cast<HWND>( this->winId() ) );
	is_EnableMessage( m_hCam, IS_FRAME, reinterpret_cast<HWND>( winId() ) );
 
	return true;
}

bool CameraView::EvInitAll()
{
	// Enable Messages
	is_EnableMessage( m_hCam, IS_DEVICE_REMOVED, reinterpret_cast<HWND>( this->winId() ) );
	is_EnableMessage( m_hCam, IS_DEVICE_RECONNECTED, reinterpret_cast<HWND>( this->winId() ) );
	is_EnableMessage( m_hCam, IS_FRAME, reinterpret_cast<HWND>( winId() ) );

	return true;
}

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This should install the following messages:
IS_DEVICE_REMOVED // happens when I disconnect the camera
IS_DEVICE_RECONNECTED // happens when I reconnect the camera
IS_FRAME // SHOULD happens when I receive frames from the camera

So I think to handle windows messages into a Qt application I should use winEvent.
So I reimplemented it in my app so:
In the *.h

protected:
	virtual bool winEvent( MSG*, long* );

protected:
	virtual bool winEvent( MSG*, long* );

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and in the *.cpp

bool CameraView::winEvent(MSG *m, long* result)
{
	uint msgType = m->message;  // test line
 
	switch ( m->wParam )
	{
		case IS_DEVICE_REMOVED:
			qDebug("Device removed");
			break;
		case IS_DEVICE_RECONNECTED:
			qDebug("Device reconnected");
			break;
		case IS_FRAME:
			qDebug("Frame received");
			break;
	}
 
	return false;
}

bool CameraView::winEvent(MSG *m, long* result)
{
	uint msgType = m->message;  // test line

	switch ( m->wParam )
	{
		case IS_DEVICE_REMOVED:
			qDebug("Device removed");
			break;
		case IS_DEVICE_RECONNECTED:
			qDebug("Device reconnected");
			break;
		case IS_FRAME:
			qDebug("Frame received");
			break;
	}

	return false;
}

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Where ( from the camera sdk ):

#define IS_FRAME                        0x0000
#define IS_DEVICE_REMOVED         0x1000
#define IS_DEVICE_RECONNECTED  0x0004

#define IS_FRAME                        0x0000
#define IS_DEVICE_REMOVED         0x1000
#define IS_DEVICE_RECONNECTED  0x0004

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I have problems with the IS_FRAME message. Seems that it occurs always.
No problem with the IS_DEVICE_REMOVED and IS_DEVICE_RECONNECTED. When I disconnect the camera I can see the Device removed string at shell ( the same with the IS_DEVICE_RECONNECTED ).
But When I start the application the IS_FRAME is immediately handled ( this should not be possible as I first have to initialize the camera ).
It immediately starts to print a shell Frame received and it should not. Also when I move the mouse it prints Frame received. Why this message is always handles when I don't effectively receive frames from the camera?

I hope to get help.

Here a list of some of the camera messages:

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Window message defines
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#define IS_UEYE_MESSAGE (WM_USER + 0x0100)
#define IS_FRAME 0x0000
#define IS_SEQUENCE 0x0001
#define IS_TRIGGER 0x0002
#define IS_TRANSFER_FAILED 0x0003
#define IS_DEVICE_RECONNECTED 0x0004
#define IS_MEMORY_MODE_FINISH 0x0005
#define IS_FRAME_RECEIVED 0x0006
#define IS_GENERIC_ERROR 0x0007
#define IS_STEAL_VIDEO 0x0008
#define IS_WB_FINISHED 0x0009
#define IS_AUTOBRIGHTNESS_FINISHED 0x000A
#define IS_OVERLAY_DATA_LOST 0x000B

#define IS_DEVICE_REMOVED 0x1000
#define IS_DEVICE_REMOVAL 0x1001
#define IS_NEW_DEVICE 0

Best Regards,
Franco

[alexisdm]

Shouldn't you test if it is actually a uEye message ?

bool CameraView::winEvent(MSG *m, long* result)
{
        uint msgType = m->message;
 
        if (msgType != IS_UEYE_MESSAGE) 
                return false;  // Let Qt handle other messages
 
        switch ( m->wParam )
        {
        ...
        }
        return true;
}

bool CameraView::winEvent(MSG *m, long* result)
{
        uint msgType = m->message;

        if (msgType != IS_UEYE_MESSAGE) 
                return false;  // Let Qt handle other messages

        switch ( m->wParam )
        {
        ...
        }
        return true;
}

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[franco.amato]

Shouldn't you test if it is actually a uEye message ?

bool CameraView::winEvent(MSG *m, long* result)
{
        uint msgType = m->message;
 
        if (msgType != IS_UEYE_MESSAGE) 
                return false;  // Let Qt handle other messages
 
        switch ( m->wParam )
        {
        ...
        }
        return true;
}

bool CameraView::winEvent(MSG *m, long* result)
{
        uint msgType = m->message;

        if (msgType != IS_UEYE_MESSAGE) 
                return false;  // Let Qt handle other messages

        switch ( m->wParam )
        {
        ...
        }
        return true;
}

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It worked.
Thank you

[m-obi]

Hello,

i'm new at using uEye in Qt. Can you show your entire cpp please?