Interfacing with Scion Image Frame Grabber?

I have a Scion Image Frame Grabber in my PC & am trying to control it via LabView Vision. Scion has no LabView drivers, but has a dll & SDK available. However, their driver expects C++ pointers as arguments & returns ptrs. My thought is to write a cover driver in C++ to shield labview.
Anyone have drivers for this, or experience with this frame grabber board?

Thank you for posting on the forums. While National Instrument's driver and native IMAQ support obviously does not interface to third party boards, if your board does include a dll that allows you to control the frame grabber then you may be able to get the board working in LabVIEW. LabVIEW has a few options available for calling dlls, and this is probably the route you will want to go, unless another user already has a driver for this board and LabVIEW available.
To get more information on calling dlls and interfacing to external code (particularly C/C++ code), then I would start by looking at the "Using External Code in LabVIEW" document. You can find this by opening LabVIEW, going to the Help menu, and clicking on "Search the LabVIEW Bookshelf..." This will ope
n a pdf document that links to other great resources, one of which is the large "Using External Code in LabVIEW" document. Glance through this manual and then other information/examples on ni.com/support for some help in getting starting in calling DLLs from within LabVIEW if you have never had experience with this before.
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Michael
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