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National Instruments Corporation ix NI-IMAQ User Manual
About This Manual
NI-IMAQ software is a powerful application programming interface (API)
between your image acquisition application and the National Instruments
image acquisition (IMAQ) devices. This manual explains how to use your
NI-IMAQ software.

How to Use the NI-IMAQ Manual Set

To install your software and documentation set, you should begin by
reading the setup and test document included with your hardware and the
NI-IMAQ release notes. These documents contain information about how
to install your software and hardware. Then read Chapter 1, Introduction,
of the your hardware user manual, which contains a flowchart that
illustrates the sequence of steps you should take to learn about and get
started with NI-IMAQ.
When you are familiar with the material in this manual, you can use the
NI-IMAQ Function Reference Manual, which contains detailed
descriptions of the NI-IMAQ functions.

Organization of This Manual

The NI-IMAQ User Manual is organized as follows:
Chapter1, Introduction to NI-IMAQ, describes the NI-IMAQ software
and lists the application development environments compatible with
NI-IMAQ, describes the fundamentals of creating NI-IMAQ
applications for Windows 95 and Windows NT, describes the files used
to build these applications, and tells you where to find sample
programs.
Chapter2, Software Overview, describes the classes of NI-IMAQ
functions and briefly describes each function.
Chapter3, Programming with NI-IMAQ, contains an overview of the
NI-IMAQ library, a description of the programming flow of NI-IMAQ,
and programming examples.
Appendix A, StillColor, describes the different methods you can use to
acquire a color image using the IMAQ PCI/PXI-1408 and National
Instruments StillColor technology, explains basic color theories, and
describes the different output options supported by StillColor.
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