Transitioning to FlyCapture

Last Revision Date: 12/2/2015

This article helps developers migrate their PGRFlyCapture applications to the FlyCapture2 interface.

With the release of version 2 of the FlyCapture SDK, users can program our cameras using a single cross-platform interface that supports both Microsoft Windows and Linux Ubuntu operating systems. Other key features include support for GigE and USB3 cameras, new IIDC 1.32 features, and a simplified object-oriented interface aimed to produce a cleaner, more robust code base for developers. For information about PGRFlyCapture functions that are not supported in FlyCapture2, refer to the topic Backward Compatibility with FlyCapture 1.x in the FlyCapture2 SDK Help.

There are no plans for any future PGRFlyCapture releases. New features will be added to FlyCapture2 releases exclusively. We encourage PGRFlyCapture users to upgrade their applications to the FlyCapture2 class libraries. To assist in this transition, all of the sample applications provided with the PGRFlyCapture SDK have been re-written to show parallel functionality using the FlyCapture2 API.

This table shows a side-by-side comparison of the primary library calls in the PGRFlyCapture example programPGRFlyCaptureTest, and its corresponding example in FlyCapture2, FlyCapture2Test.

Example programs can also be accessed either from the Windows Start Menu (All Programs > Point Grey Research Inc. > PGR FlyCapture or FlyCapture2 > Examples)  or in the \src folder of the Point Grey FlyCapture or FlyCapture2 installation directory.