What will I need to build my own application program for the Trifid Camera?
The underlying driver for the Trifid Control Panel is written in C++. On Microsoft Windows® it is available as an Application Server that exports COM objects, which Microsoft Office®, Visual Basic and Visual C++ (and other tools) can read. The installation CD for the Trifid Camera contains the Software Development Kit in the SDK directory. If you have Microsoft Office® 97 or later installed on your computer, open the SDK supplied Trifid.doc file from Microsoft Word or Trifid.xls from Microsoft Excel and then hit Alt+F11. That will open the Yankee Robotics software in the Visual Basic for Applications editor. From there you can view and modify the user form that is the GUI for the Trifid Control Panel. After you modify the Trifid Control Panel you can save and run it from within Office. If you want to compile a new executable you will need a Visual Basic compiler. If you have Visual Basic version 5 or 6 (version 4 might work, but we have not tested it), open the supplied Visual Basic Pr
