User`s guide

Getting Command-Line Function Help

To get command-line function help, you can use the MATLAB help function.

For example, to get help for the

getsnapshot function, type the following:

help getsnapshot

However, Image Acquisition Toolbox provides “overloaded” versions of several

MATLAB functions. That is, it provides toolbox-specific im plementations of

these functions using the same function name.

Fo r example, Image Acquisition Toolbox provides an overloaded version o f the

delete function. You get help for the MATLAB versio n of this function if

you type the following:

help delete

Yo u can de termine if a function is overload ed by examin i ng the last section

of the help. For

delete, the help contains the following overloaded versions

(not all are shown):

Overloaded methods

help char/delete.m

help scribehandle/ dele te.m

help scribehgobj/d elet e.m

help imaqdevice/de lete .m

To obtain help on the Image Acquisition Toolbox version of this fu nction,

type the following:

help imaqdevice/de lete

To avoid having to specify which overloaded vers ion you want to v iew, use

the

imaqhelp function:

imaqhelp delete

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