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Camera Declaration/Initialization

I know there are lots of threads on the camera, but i havn't seen any on this topic specifically.
I'm just wondering how to declare/initalize the camera in an Iterative Robot based program.
Because (correct me if im wrong) you have to use AxisCamera &camera = AxisCamera::GetInstance(), the &camera is a reference, and MUST be initialized when it is declared.
If i put this line of code in the constructor, or TeleopInit, the reference can't be accessed in any other function.
If i put it in TeleopPeriodic, I will be able to access the camera reference where i need it, but it will be inneficiently called every loop

What is the best, or atleast a working way to get a working variable/reference of the camera that i can access in TeleopPeriodic for tracking?

Re: Camera Declaration/Initialization

Has anybody gotten the camera feed and tracking to work in iterative robot?

Re: Camera Declaration/Initialization

Yes. We resorted to a global variable so above our robot declaration we have:

AxisCamera &g_camera = AxisCamera::GetInstance();

class Robot281: public IterativeRobot {
etc.
};

Re: Camera Declaration/Initialization

put it in the class:

Code:

public yourrobot:public IterativeRobot

{

...

     AxisCamera &cam;

public:

    yourrobot():

...

      cam(AxisCamera::GetInstance())

      { }



....

};