Create a HALCON “Hello World” Program

Introduction

This tutorial shows how to create and start developing a HDevelop program for Zivid using HALCON.

Requirements

• Zivid Software

• HALCON software

Note

The HALCON version tested is 19.05 Progress.

Instructions

Step by step instructions are provided with screenshots below.

Create ZividHelloWorld.hdev

Launch HALCON, then click File → New Program. Add the following code to the Program Window main ().

HDevelop

* Connect to the camera
open_framegrabber ('GenICamTL',1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 'progressive', -1, 'default', -1, 'false', 'default', 'default', 0, 0, AcqHandle)

* Create a window and print 'Hello World!'
dev_open_window (0, 0, 512, 512, 'black', WindowHandle)
write_string(WindowHandle,'Hello World!')

Save the code to the desired location as ZividHelloWorld.hdev.

Run the program

Press F5 key on your keyboard to run the program.

Check out our HALCON samples and start developing!