From 11c2f5d8102246e42a50e36c4f31ee3d02a0e2e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadim Pisarevsky Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:44:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] OpenCV reference manual (C++ part only for now) is now produced directly from RST, not from TeX. --- modules/highgui/doc/highgui.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/modules/highgui/doc/highgui.rst b/modules/highgui/doc/highgui.rst index 5c6b94f..f0341ad 100644 --- a/modules/highgui/doc/highgui.rst +++ b/modules/highgui/doc/highgui.rst @@ -1,3 +1,22 @@ **************************** High-level GUI and Media I/O **************************** + + +While OpenCV was designed for use in full-scale +applications and can be used within functionally rich UI frameworks (such as Qt, WinForms or Cocoa) or without any UI at all, sometimes there is a need to try some functionality quickly and visualize the results. This is what the HighGUI module has been designed for. + +It provides easy interface to: + +* create and manipulate windows that can display images and "remember" their content (no need to handle repaint events from OS) +* add trackbars to the windows, handle simple mouse events as well as keyboard commmands +* read and write images to/from disk or memory. +* read video from camera or file and write video to a file. + + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 2 + + user_interface + reading_and_writing_images_and_video + qt_new_functions -- 2.7.4