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New revision 4.3 / 5.3 of the HALCON 10 / 11 File (VirtualFG) interface released which allows now to specify a directory name also relatively to the search path (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.14 / 5.5 of the HALCON 10 / 11 GigEVision interface released which includes bug fixes regarding the handling of devices that are no more reachable ("lost devices") and provides a more detailed documentation of the ForceIP and 'clear_buffer' parameters (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.2 / 5.1 of the HALCON 10 / 11 LPS36 interface released which fixes a bug regarding the 'generic' parameter values (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.15 / 5.4 of the HALCON 10 / 11 SaperaLT interface released which provides improvements regarding the buffer allocation in case of very large images and fixes a bug regarding floating point parameter values (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.3 / 5.2 of the HALCON 10 / 11 Sentech interface released which enables also to use the 'color_reduction' interpolation mode and provides an improved error handling if external triggering is not supported by the camera (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.9 / 5.4 of the HALCON 10 / 11 SiliconSoftware interface released which provides bug fixes regarding the continuous grabbing mode and in the operator close_framegrabber (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.11 / 5.6 of the HALCON 10 / 11 GenICamTL interface released which includes few bug fixes and improvements (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.13 / 5.4 of the HALCON 10 / 11 GigEVision interface released which now supports also the callback types 'transfer_end' and 'device_lost'. Furthermore, the internal callback handling has been improved and can be controlled via three new parameters and an additional callback type (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.13 / 5.6 of the HALCON 10 / 11 SICK-3DCamera interface released which includes improvements and bug fixes regarding the continuous grabbing mode. Furthermore, the new interface revision fixes several bugs and provides new and updated HDevelop example programs, in particular to show the usage of the different grabbing modes (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.8 / 5.3 of the HALCON 10 / 11 SiliconSoftware interface released which is now based on the new Silicon Software SDK 5.2.1 and supports the Multiple ROI functionality of VisualApplets modules. Furthermore, the new interface revision fixes several bugs and provides new and updated HDevelop example programs (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.12 / 5.3 of the HALCON 10 / 11 GigEVision interface released which includes several bug fixes and improvements, in particular in the underlying GigE Vision transport layer. Furthermore, the new interface revision allows to receive only the newest images without the need to explicitly flush buffers (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.14 / 5.3 of the HALCON 10 / 11 SaperaLT interface released which fixes a problem in the operator set_framegrabber_param regarding the value range check, in particular in combination with Xcelera boards (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.10 / 5.5 of the HALCON 10 / 11 GenICamTL interface released which has been completely revised and provides numerous fixes and improvements. In particular, the new interface revision now provides access to GenICam chunk data and supports GenICam events through callbacks (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.20 / 5.6 of the HALCON 10 / 11 pylon interface released which includes bug fixes regarding correct recovering from timeouts during asynchronous image acquisition, aborting a pending grab via calling the operator grab_image_start, and setting unsupported parameters to IEEE 1394 cameras (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.7 / 5.2 of the HALCON 10 / 11 MultiCam interface released which includes bug fixes regarding aborting a pending grab via the operators grab_image_start and grab_image, using the MONO_DECA board topology for GRABLINK Full boards, and to allow to use an image height or image width smaller than 64 (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.12 / 5.5 of the HALCON 10 / 11 SICK-3DCamera interface released which fixes a bug regarding the use of only one component with a 16 bit representation. Furthermore, the interface documentation has been generally reviewed and adapted (registered customers can download it here).

First official release of the HALCON 11 ShapeDrive interface which supports the high-resolution 3D sensors from the German camera manufacturer ShapeDrive. This new interface allows the easy acquisition of calibrated 3D data based on the fringe projection technology (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.11 / 5.4 of the HALCON 10 / 11 SICK-3DCamera interface released which includes a new parameter and a new HDevelop example program to show how to use the internal queue of buffers. Furthermore, the new revision fixes bugs regarding the use of mark data, the initialization of the calibration filter, and regarding the range images in case that the rectification filter is disabled (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.19 / 5.5 of the HALCON 10 / 11 pylon interface released which fixes a bug in the operator open_framegrabber in case of Camera Link devices (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.2 / 5.1 of the HALCON 10 / 11 Sentech interface released which now also supports the new USB 3.0 camera models. Furthermore, the new interface revision fixes a bug in combination with software trigger mode (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.18 / 5.4 of the HALCON 10 / 11 pylon interface released which fixes a bug in the operator info_framegrabber when querying the actually available read-only parameters (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.13 / 5.2 of the HALCON 10 / 11 SaperaLT interface released which fixes a problem in the operator open_framegrabber when opening a camera with an image height or image width smaller than 8 (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.11 / 5.1 of the HALCON 10 / 11 MILLite interface released which improves the error handling in the operator open_framegrabber when trying to open an already used digitizer a second time (registered customers can download it here).

New revision 4.17 / 5.3 of the HALCON 9.0 / 10 / 11 pylon interface released which fixes a bug in the operator grab_image in continuous acquisition mode (registered customers can download it here).

The newest maintenance release 11.0.1 of HALCON 11 is now ready for download. It is the first HALCON release to officially support Windows 8 and Mac OS X 10.8. HALCON 11.0.1 includes several enhancements, such as reduced memory consumption of some bar code and data code operators, or improvements of the OCR Training File Browser. HDevelop has been extended with an inspection window for 3D object model variables, which also allows to visualize the 3D object model. HALCON 11.0.1 includes several further enhancements, documentation updates, and fixes of all currently known bugs. Have a look at the release notes for a detailed description of HALCON 11.0.1. Registered customers can download the HALCON 11.0.1 or a package to update an older release of HALCON 11.

New revision 4.9 / 5.4 of the HALCON 9.0 / 10 / 11 GenICamTL interface released which fixes a bug regarding XML loading from a device (registered customers can download it here).