Webcam in ABAP via ActiveX

Playing With ActiveX in ABAP

Introduction:

In this document i will show you how to access your webcam in ABAP CFW via ActiveX controls and I will give you idea how to play with ActiveX .

Requirement:

Access Webcam/media player or any thing in ABAP via ActiveX .

I'd seen some issue How to CALL WEBCAM in SAP and decided to write a document.

Issue:

customer wants everything on ABAP screen not 3rd party eg. - 1) On security gate they want capture visitors photo but only ABAP screen

                                                                                                                                2) In Weighment system access/read COM port data but via ABAP only

                                                                                                                                3) RDP server get connected client IP

some times just for playing with ABAP means media player and other .

Solution:

1) You can create your own ActiveX control in VB6.0 , VB.net / C# - ActiveX - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

or download free available ActiveX .

2) Register it via Regsvr32 [/u] [/s] <OCX File Name>

3) Create your proxy class for our ActiveX control by inheriting CFW class CL_GUI_CONTROL and access methods.

4) Create your ABAP program and use your class and show your activeX

For understanding whole process please read blog by Thomas Jung - Using Classic ActiveX Controls in the ABAP Cont... | SCN

Example:

Access Webcam in ABAP -

1) (due to some company policy restriction) Here for ActiveX i'm gonna used already developed activeX  - Video Capture ActiveX SDK | VideoCap SDK ActiveX  - just download and install it even you don't need to register it.

2) Create your Proxy class ycl_gui_webcam- download it from My GitHub

3) Create your program ygui_webcam - download it from My GitHub

Download - Aashish28/ABAP · GitHub

Run your program -

Just Try It and Enjoy

You can also try it with your Media Player