CVL Programming Overview

This chapter contains information you need to know to build and run applications built with the Cognex Vision Library (CVL).

Development Environment Requirements describes the development environment you need to write vision applications with CVL. This section also describes the project settings required in the Microsoft Visual C++ development environment to build CVL applications for MVS-81x0 series frame grabbers.

Files Delivered with CVL describes the directories that CVL installs on your hard disk and their contents.

Programming Examples describes the sample programs and the sample code included with CVL. The sample programs are intended to help you get started writing your own CVL applications.

CVL Programming Conventions describes programming conventions used in CVL such as the use of parameterized classes, pointer handles, naming conventions, localization and Unicode, and CVL built-in types.