Acquiring an Image From WIA Source

Start Visual Studio .NET.

Choose File->New->Project… from the menu.

In the New Project dialog box, choose either "Visual C# Projects" or "Visual Basic Projects" in the Projects Type List, and choose "Windows Application " in the Templates List.

Type the project name as "Acquiring an Image From WIA Source" in the Project Name field, and then choose OK. If desired, type a new location for your project or select a directory using the Browse button, and then choose OK.

In the "Solution Explorer" window, right-click on the "References" folder, and select "Add Reference…" from the context menu. In the "Add Reference" dialog box, select the ".NET" tab and browse to Leadtools For .NET "\LEAD Technologies\LEADTOOLS 16.5\Bin\DotNet\Win32 " folder and select the following DLLs:

Leadtools.dll
Leadtools.Wia.dll
Leadtools.Codecs.dll
Leadtools.WinForms.dll

Click the Select button and then press the OK button to add the above DLLs to the application.

Make sure Form1 is in design view. Go to the toolbox (View->Toolbox) and Drag and drop an instance of RasterImageViewer to the form. If you do not have RasterImageViewer in your toolbox, select Tools->Choose Toolbox Items from the menu. Click Browse and then select Leadtools.WinForms.DLL from "C:\Program Files (x86)\LEAD Technologies\LEADTOOLS 16.5\Bin\DotNet\Win32" and then click Open and then click OK.

Go to the toolbox (View->Toolbox) and Drag and drop a 2 instance of Button control to the top of the form and set the following properties for them:

Text	Name
Acquire	btnAcquire
Select Source	btnSelectSource

Switch to Form1 code view (right-click Form1 in the solution explorer then select View Code ) and add the following lines at the beginning of the file:

[Visual Basic]


Imports Leadtools
Imports Leadtools.Wia
Imports Leadtools.Codecs
Imports Leadtools.WinForms

[C#]


using Leadtools;
using Leadtools.Wia;
using Leadtools.Codecs;
using Leadtools.WinForms;

Declare the following private variable:

[Visual Basic]


Private WithEvents session As WiaSession

[C#]


private WiaSession session;

Add an event handler to the Form1 Load event and code it as follows:

[Visual Basic]


Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
   Try
      session = new WiaSession
      session.Startup(WiaVersion.Version1)
   Catch ex As Exception
      MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
   End Try
End Sub

[C#]


private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
   try
   {
      session = new WiaSession();
      session.Startup(WiaVersion.Version1);
   }
   catch (Exception ex)
   {
      MessageBox.Show(this, ex.Message);
   }
}

Add an event handler to the Form1 Closing event and code it as follows:

[Visual Basic]


Private Sub Form1_FormClosing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventArgs) Handles Me.FormClosing
   Try
      session.Shutdown()
   Catch ex As Exception
      MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
   End Try
End Sub

[C#]


private void Form1_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
   try
   {
      session.Shutdown();
   }
   catch (Exception ex)
   {
      MessageBox.Show(this, ex.Message);
   }
}

Add an event handler to the session AcquireEvent event and code it as follows:

[Visual Basic]


Private Sub session_AcquireEvent(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As WiaAcquireEventArgs) Handles session.AcquireEvent
  If Not e.Image Is Nothing Then
     RasterImageViewer1.Image = e.Image
  End If
End Sub

[C#]


private void session_AcquirePage(object sender, WiaAcquireEventArgs e)
{
  if (e.Image != null)
  {
     rasterImageViewer1.Image = e.Image;
  }
}

Add an event handler to the btnAcquire Click event and code it as follows:

[Visual Basic]


Private Sub btnAcquire_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnAcquire.Click
   Try
      session.Acquire(Me, Nothing, WiaAcquireFlags.ShowUserInterface Or WiaAcquireFlags.UseCommonUI)
   Catch ex As Exception
      MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
   End Try
End Sub

[C#]


private void btnAcquire_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
   try
   {
      session.AcquireEvent += new EventHandler<WiaAcquireEventArgs>(session_AcquireEvent);
      session.Acquire(this, null, WiaAcquireFlags.ShowUserInterface | WiaAcquireFlags.UseCommonUI);
   }
   catch (Exception ex)
   {
      MessageBox.Show(this, ex.Message);
   }
}

Add an event handler to the btnSelectSource Click event and code it as follows:

[Visual Basic]


Private Sub btnSelectSource_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSelectSource.Click
   Try
      session.SelectDeviceDlg(Me, WiaDeviceType.Default, WiaSelectSourceFlags.NoDefault)
   Catch ex As Exception
      MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
   End Try
End Sub

[C#]


private void btnSelectSource_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
   try
   {
      session.SelectDeviceDlg(this, WiaDeviceType.Default, WiaSelectSourceFlags.NoDefault);
   }
   catch (Exception ex)
   {
      MessageBox.Show(this, ex.Message);
   }
}

Build, and Run the program to test it.

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Acquiring an Image From WIA Source