How to add OpenCV display window as child of another window in Win32 c++ Applications?

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I have a framegrabber (Silicon Software ) and I managed to show the grabbed images from a pointer in memory buffer using OpenCV.

Now I want to create an application (Win32) and place the openCV window as a child window of the main application window. Anybody has any idea?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 10 '13 at 03:20

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I found the answer, it was soo easy. Just couple of lines of code. here it is :

cv::namedWindow("test",cv::WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);                        
hWnd2 = (HWND) cvGetWindowHandle("test"); 
hParent = ::GetParent(hWnd2);       
::SetParent(hWnd2, hParent); 
::ShowWindow(hParent, SW_HIDE);

edited Jun 10 '13 at 03:20

Brent81

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answered Feb 25 '13 at 11:12

user261002

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 21 '13 at 17:06

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if you want your own window, it's probably better, to skip the whole highgui stuff, and do your own blitting as well.

have a look at the src of cvShowImage(), highgui/src/window_w32.cpp,l 1384, to see, what they're doing here

answered Feb 21 '13 at 17:06

berak

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 25 '13 at 10:47

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Don't know exactly what you mean by "child window", but you could grab the pixel information from OpenCV's IplImage format and convert it to whatever format you need it for your window.

answered Feb 25 '13 at 10:47

M Rajoy

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How to add OpenCV display window as child of another window in Win32 c++ Applications?

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