Need Help: FRC Labview with local USB-cam (or laptop Webcam)

[Ziaholic]

I'm trying to get started with some imaging VI's but I don't want to have to be connected to the cRio and/or the IP-based Webcam they provided. The only "Camera-Open" that I can find is for the provided Axis cam, and it needs an IP addy.

I'd prefer to do some of my development with either the camera in the lid of my laptop, or some detachable USB webcam.

I've done some web-searching and all I've come up with so far are some tips on the NI developer forums that say I need to create a custom library reference to the camera's DLL.

I'm hoping that somebody out here could point me in the right direction so I don't have to go off and re-invent the wheel. Has anybody already done this? Is there a library/archive I could go search?

I'm running FRC Labview 8.5.1f5 on a HP Pavillion dv5 running Vista. The USB webcam that I'd use would be a Logitech.

Thanks!