[DSWC+RC5] PicSnap WebCam+Cairo Overlay Demo/Experiment

First, let me say that the heavy lifting in this demo has been done by the hard work of Dilettante (DSWC) and Olaf Schmidt (vbRichClient5). I've decided to experiment a bit with Olaf's RC5 widget and form classes by putting an overlay layer over the webcam work that Dilettante did in this thread: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...m-Minimal-Code

Here's a screenshot to whet your appetite:



As you can see we get a nice transparent overlay with semi-transparent widgets over our (now scaled to the window-size) live webcam preview. Click/Tap the top icon to cycle through your available cams (e.g. front and back cameras). Click/tap the bottom icon to take a snapshot. When you take a snapshot, the window will "flash" to indicate that the snap was taken, and a JPEG will be saved in your My Pictures folder.

This has only been tested on a Surface Pro 3 with Windows 10, and only lightly at that, so bugs are quite possible. Report issues here and I will see what I can do.

So just a bit of a fun attempt to make a camera application for dummies. Thanks once again to Olaf and Dilettante for doing the difficult stuff.

Here's the source code:

PicSnap.zip

Once you've extracted the source code, you will also need to have the vbRichClient5 library and the FSFWrap library registered on your development machine. Enjoy!

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