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Hello.
I am trying to use visual basic for controlling ez-board, but i have some difficult about beginning using it.
I have read your tutorial and every post in this forum, but i still have not understand where i have to declare ezb.
Imports EZ_B
Imports EZ_B.CameraDetection
Imports System
......where do i have to write these lines?
In 'sub form load'?
In every buttons?
At the moment, i want a project with only a form and a button. Pressing the button, a servo must move to 50%.
Can someone please suggest how to do this?
Thank you very much.
Ema from Italy
Welcome to the inspiring community of EZ-B !
I assume you already have the 'EzB_Connect1' control on your form. If not, follow the tuturial and do so first.
Suppose you have a button on your form and that button is named 'btnLeftTurn'. You can past this line of code
in the 'click' event of that button. So draw a button on the screen, double click it and you'll end up in this click event.
At the end of the line you'll see 'D7,0'. This means your servo has to been connected with port D7 on your EZ-B board.
The '0' means the minimum value of the servo.
Private Sub btnLeftTurn_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnLeftTurn.Click
EzB_Connect1.EZB.Servo.SetServoPosition(EZ_B.Servo.ServoPortEnum.D7, 0)
End Sub
If you want to toggle between minimum and maximum values, you could place a second button, let's call this one 'btnRightTurn'. Here you can past this line of code:
Private Sub btnRightTurn_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnRightTurn.Click
EzB_Connect1.EZB.Servo.SetServoPosition(EZ_B.Servo.ServoPortEnum.D7, 100)
End Sub
Now you'll notice the 'D7,100' instead of '0', so the servo will move to the 'other side'.
Good luck and enjoy it.
I have understand and now i am able to move servos, but i have another strange problem about camera detection.
Following the examples in sdk-folder (tutorial 3), i have an error: "FileNotFoundException Impossible to load file or assembly FFMPEG.dll or one of dependence".
Well, i have added in 'project - add reference' the FFMPEG.dll and every other .dll files, but the error is still here....
Do someone know why?
Thank you.
Ema from Italy
Does someone has connected a camera using VisualBasic? Can i have some explanation about?.....
Thank you and scuse me for my newbie and for my bad english.
Ema from Italy.
System.Io.FileNotFoundEXCEPTION
FileNotFoundException.
Impossible to load file or assembly FFMPEG.dll or one of dependence.
Exception first-chance type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' in System.Windows.Forms.dll
The problem seems to occour in the line:
_camera = New Camera(EzB_Connect1.EZB)
Do someone know a solution?
I don't have my kit yet so if that does not help, give me a couple of weeks and if no one helps you I'll install the SDK and see if I can figure it out. I'm just not experienced with EZB yet so I can't really help yet. I am however quite crafty and am pretty good at solving problems. I've been asking lots of questions because I don't have the hardware yet to just try stuff and figure it out. (Once again, I thank the EZ community for all of their input and information.)
From a programmers stand point it seems to be aninstallation or configuration issue. The error you posted says "I can not find something." So a file is missing OR it is looking in the wrong place for the file. I know you do not speak English well so if no one helps you out by the time I try to figure it out, I'll try to get 'someone' to translate. Hoping that 'someone' is still watching the thread and is willing to translate again ;-)
I wish I could be more help, just know that I won't let you fall between the cracks. Even if it takes some time. I should have my hardware on 4/29 so give me a little time to play with it and I'll see what I can do. I did plan on installing the SDK and using C# in the near future anyway. I have some experience with C# so my plan was, "If EZ-Script confuses me I'll do it all in C#." I'll keep an eye on this thread. I hope someone can help you out before I can.
I am beginning to think to cut-off ez-board and use Arduino. It is easyest to control from VisualBasic.
I had the same problem. You need to add the directory with the ffmpeg.dll file to your system path.
Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7
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1. Right-click on the My Computer icon. (Under Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7, the My Computer Icon may be located in the start menu.)
2. Choose Properties from the context menu.
(Alternatively, you can double-click on the System icon in the Control Panel)
4. Click the Advanced tab or "Advanced system settings" on Windows Vista or Windows 7
5. Click the Environment Variables button.
6. Click on the variable called 'Path' and then click on Edit. Now add the target directory to the value of the variable, using a semi-colon as a separator.
This is what it looks like for me:
C:\Program Files\AMD APP\bin\x86;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2012a\runtime\win32;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2012a\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn\;c:\ffmepg\bin;C:\Users\Boon\Documents\Minion\EZ-SDK\DLL
note the last line: ....\EZ-SDK\DLL
You will probably have to restart your PC before your IDE will recognize the path.
Hope this helps you,
Boon.
For example, the files necessary for all EZ-SDK functions to work are found in the EZ-SDK DLL folder. Those files must be in you executable folder. You can either manually copy them, or add the files to your project and modify their property to be copied.
When working with libraries in your custom application, they will always need to be copied into the executable folder. The library DLL files that are dependencies will need to be accessible by the application. This can be done by either being in the path, or by being included in the executable folder.
The files that must be included are...
I would never been able to do it without your help!
Thank you Boon! Now the program starts without errors!
You have been very very helpful for me!
Maybe you need to add a sentence to the SDK download web page telling people to read the readme file for instructions on SDK use. You seem to have to answer this question at least once every two weeks.
Alan
Glad i could help!
@thetechguru and @DJ
The readme file didnt tell us this. This is the readme file wich we read, and followed step by step:
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Welcome to EZ-B!
Documentation
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1) If you load an example tutorial solution into Visual Studio, you may get an error
about not being able to find the EZ_B.DLL file. You will need to manually add the DLL
file as a reference to each project.
Right Click on Project -> Add Reference -> Browse -> Select EZ_B.DLL from DLL folder
2) The default passkey to connect to the EZ-B over bluetooth is "1234".
3) Be sure to download ARC from www.ez-robot.com and obtain the latest Firmware update
4) Projects must be compiled as x86 (not 64 bit). Configure your project to generate x86 (32 bit) binaries.
Right click on project, select Build and change the CPU to x86
5) Projects must be configured for .Net 4 runtime
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I suggest you add point 1.5:
1.5) If you still get the error, also make sure to put the .dll files in your project directory itself.
It's normal development practice
Libraries need to be accessible from the executable.
And i have read the readme.txt file and i have read ALL THE FORUM, but the right way was another and it was very difficult for me.
Boon has show the way to do this, and this was not shown in any post in this forum and in any tutorial in this website.
Thanks to Boon again!
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I just realized that I already had the ffmpeg.dll in a directory in my path from another app, and I did put all of hte EZ dll's in my app directory because I have lived with enough DLL hell that I always do that.
Alan