TangoVimba Class Commands
Name
Input type
Output type
Level
Description
State DEV_VOID DEV_STATE OPERATOR This command gets the device state (stored in its device_state data member) and returns it to the caller.
Status DEV_VOID CONST_DEV_STRING OPERATOR This command gets the device status (stored in its device_status data member) and returns it to the caller.
StartAcquisition DEV_VOID DEV_VOID OPERATOR Start continous image acquisition
StartSingleAcquisition DEV_VOID DEV_VOID OPERATOR Start single acquisition. Acquisition will stop automatically after number
of requested images (c.f. attribute FramesPerSingleAcquisition) is collected.
AbortAcquisition DEV_VOID DEV_VOID OPERATOR Abort continous image acquisition immediately (all open files will be
closed, frames in buffer which were not written yet will be discarded)
StopAcquisition DEV_VOID DEV_VOID OPERATOR Stop continous image acquisition. Frames in the buffer tagged for writing
to files will be written, while this happens the device is in state EXTRACT.
SaveNextImage DEV_BOOLEAN DEV_VOID OPERATOR Will save the next frame coming in from the camera while the acquisition is running and without interrupting it.
Settings of FileDir/FilePrefix/FilePostfix are taken into respect.
If input argument is true, FileStartNum will be incremented and an index number will be appended to the filename.
Otherwise not.
Use this to take a `snapshot` if you run acquisition without FileSaving
set to true.
SoftTrigger DEV_VOID DEV_VOID OPERATOR Generate a software trigger. To make use of this command
- add `TriggerSource` to the VisibleAttributes property
- add `TriggerMode` to the VisibleAttributes property

- restart the server
- set attribute `TriggerSource` to `Software`
- set attribute `TriggerMode` to `On`
- run StartAcquisition

If you then call this command, the camera will send an image which will
be processed by the server according to the setting of `FileSaving` and
`ViewingMode`.