[PySide] How to get QPixmap from QCamera

[Marian Beermann]

Instead of capturing single frames, you may use QGraphicsVideoItem and
QCamera.setViewfinder.

If you want to capture frames, you'd need to use QCameraImageCapture in
conjunction with QCamera.

-Marian

Am 19.05.19 um 07:31 schrieb henry.wede--- via PySide:
> Hello,
> I am trying to create a program so I can use a USB microscope/camera for
> alignment on a CNC router.  The image needs to have cross-hairs and
> other helpful geometry overlayed on top of the camera image.  I have
> spent a few hours looking at examples and trying to come up with a
> solution from the documentation.  
> 
> I think that I would like to have a QTimer that gets an image from the
> QCamera a couple times a second and then uses that in a QGraphicsScene. 
> Then I can control the Z ordering and easily add lines, circles, etc.  I
> have done some drawing in the QGraphicsScene before so I am comfortable
> with that part.  However, I cannot find a way to get the image from the
> QCamera object.  
> 
> Can anyone offer a suggestion?  I am out of my comfort zone with this one.
> 
> Thanks,
> Henry
> 
> 
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