HALCON 7.1 Highlights: HDevEngine

HDevelop: HDevEngine

HDevEngine is a library that acts as an interpreter and lets you directly load and execute HDevelop programs and procedures from within your C++, C#, or Visual Basic .NET application

Query the interfaces of loaded HDevelop procedures

Call procedures by passing corresponding input parameter values and retrieving output parameter values (note: HDevelop operators regarding the HDevelop GUI, such as dev_display, are not implemented)

Use HDevEngine's exception handling

usage examples

:: Software updates for machines
   - The image processing part of an OEM machine has to be updated frequently
   - If the image processing part only executes HDevelop programs the customer only has to send
     this small (ASCII) file
   - There is no need to compile, link, and send the large file to the customer � with all typical
     installation problems
:: Customer specific adaptation
   - A customer is selling machines where the image processing solution differs for every customer
   - Using HDevEngine all customer adaptations can be made inside HDevelop without changing
     the application program
   - The version control becomes much easier
:: Development in the production line
   - The operator in the production line has to modify the image processing methods due to greatly
     varying products to be inspected
   - Using HDevEngine, only HDevelop is needed to develop this part