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homesick_alien
About porting a library to processing
Nov 7th, 2008, 12:04pm  
Hello,

For a university project we have a zcam (http://www.3dvsystems.com/), and the SDK provided is written in C++ (some .lib and .dll files), without the source code.
As I would like to use processing as a front end, I was wondering how can this be done. After a small research, one solution could be to establish a UDP connection that would act as a middleware, or I could possibly explore what can be done through JNI.
However I am not familiar with these concepts, and I was wondering if there could be a more efficient (and cleaner) approach.

Any help/advice would be really appreciated!
Thank you
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sojamo
Re: About porting a library to processing
Reply #1 - Nov 7th, 2008, 1:28pm  
hi,
my first choice would be a networked solution, since you mention UDP. you might even consider to use OSC, a control message protocol, on top of UDP. many applications implement OSC already and since it is a network protocol, you could even do zcam on one machine and e.g. the visualization on another machine.
if you prefer native access instead, maybe you look into JNA (java native access), "JNA provides Java programs easy access to native shared libraries (DLLs on Windows) without writing anything but Java code—no JNI or native code is required."
personally i would go for the networked solution though since it seems to be more flexible to me.
best,
andreas
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homesick_alien
Re: About porting a library to processing
Reply #2 - Nov 10th, 2008, 10:37am  
Thank you very much for the quick reply.

We explored JNA a little, but finally will do something with opensound - seems to be simpler and more portable..

Cheers
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