nodejs binding for firefly 2 camera

Introduction: This is a wrapper for the FlyCapture2 Api from Point Grey research, http://www.ptgrey.com/support/downloads/documents/Doxygen/html/annotated.html.

Windows and Linux are supported (more or less). Macintosh is not. Point Grey Research does not support an SDK for mac. If someone can find a version it would be a big help

It compiled once for me on Windows 7, but I would like to learn how to ship with a binary

• get nodejs and npm, from nodejs.org

• Install node-gyp from https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp. Use his installation instructions, they are good.

• Download and install Point grey SDK from http://www.ptgrey.com/support/downloads/downloads_admin/Index.aspx;

• npm install node-firefly2

    var addon = require('node-firefly2');
    var fs = require('fs');
    var sys = require('sys');
    var Png = require('png').Png;//note doesn't work on windows. use png-sync instead
    //
    var cam = new addon();
    console.log( 'num cameras' , cam.getNumCameras())
    console.log("start Camera 0 ", cam.startCamera())
    //
    //set some default parameters.
    cam.autoGain(true);
    cam.autoExposure(true);
    cam.autoWhiteBalance(true);
    cam.triggerOff(false);//True uses the cable. Note don't use true unless you have a cable. It will wait forever. 
    //
    //take a few just to get it warmed up. might help?
    cam.takePhoto();cam.takePhoto();cam.takePhoto();cam.takePhoto()
    var pic = cam.takePhoto();//actually take the picture
    var png2 = new Png(pic,640,480,'rgb')
    var png_image = png2.encodeSync();
    fs.writeFileSync('../pics/png_test.png', png_image.toString('binary'), 'binary');

• var cam = new addon.FireFlyWrap(); // allways start with this
• cam.getNumCameras() // returns the number of cameras found
• cam.startCamera() // starts using the first camera
• cam.autoGain(false); // turn gain on or off
• cam.autoExposure(false); // turn auto shutter speed on or off
• cam.autoWhiteBalance(false); // turn auto white balance on or off
• cam.gain(2); // manually sets the gain. Note that auto gain must be off for this to work
• cam.exposure(90); // manually sets shutter speed. in milli seconds
• cam.triggerOff(true);//True is off, waits for hardware trigger. If no trigger is connected it will wait forever.
• cam.frameRate(); // sets the fram rate to 90 fps
• cam.triggerDelay(0.000)// takes a number in seconds to delay between when the cable trigger fires and when the picture is taken.
• cam.takePhoto(); // takes a picture and returns a node::buffer

• 2013/7/20 : Started this project on linux only.
• 2013/8/2 : Complete rewrite in order to get it to work on Windows. A bi-product is that the code is much cleaner.