Create a MATLAB “Hello World” Application With Reference to Zivid .NET API

Introduction

This tutorial shows how to create a MATLAB application for Zivid using our Zivid .NET API reference.

Requirements

• Zivid Software

• MATLAB

Note

The MATLAB version tested with Zivid cameras is R2019a.

Instructions

Step by step instructions to create and run your script are provided with screenshots below.

Create a new project

Launch MATLAB, then click New → Function.

Copy the following code and save it as zividApplication.m

MATLAB

function application = zividApplication(folder)

    if nargin < 1
        folder = [getenv('ZIVID_INSTALL_FOLDER'),'\bin'];
    end

    global ZIVID_APPLICATION

    if isempty(ZIVID_APPLICATION)
        addpath(folder);
        NET.addAssembly([folder,'\ZividCoreNET.dll']);
        NET.addAssembly([folder,'\ZividVisualizationNET.dll']);
        import Zivid.*;
        import Zivid.NET.CaptureAssistant.*;
        import Zivid.NET.HandEye.*;
        ZIVID_APPLICATION = Zivid.NET.Application;
    end

    application = ZIVID_APPLICATION;

end

Click New → Script, then copy the following code and save it as ZividHelloWorld.m

MATLAB

%% Create Zivid application
zivid = zividApplication;

%% Connect to camera
cam = zivid.ConnectCamera;
disp('Hello World!');

%% Disconnect from camera
camera.Disconnect;

Run the program

Press F5 key on your keyboard to run the program (ZividHelloWorld.m).

To continue developing with Zivid and MATLAB, check out Zivid MATLAB Samples.