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Posted: 15th Dec 2008 20:55

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Does anyone know of a dll or any other method that can be used to detect motion on a specific point on the screen through a webcam on DBC or DBP? I've been using a small program called Camtroller that I downloaded from this website:

http://camtroller.physicam.com/

Basically it allows you to position up to 18 contact points on the screen and assign which keys will be pressed when the points are touched. It works fine with games created in DB as long as they are running on a window. But I was wondering if anyone knows of way of doing something similar using just DB. Or maybe somehow implement the Camtroller program into a DB executable. Thanks

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Posted: 18th Dec 2008 00:18

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Is this a sort of "EyeToy" like project?
Sounds interesting...

It looks like this software simulates key presses so I think you could just detect those key presses as per usual in DB.

Quote: "But I was wondering if anyone knows of way of doing something similar using just DB. Or maybe somehow implement the Camtroller program into a DB executable."

To do that you'd probably have to write the whole thing yourself.
Unless you can find the DLL it uses and use the calls directly from DB. I'm not sure it's quite complicated.