Getting Started ================ Introduction ------------- ThorCam provides a Python interface to the Thor scientific cameras .NET interface. Thor provides a .NET interface to their scientific camera. This project uses ``pythonnet`` for access to the .NET interface. Due to potential dll incompatibility issues between these thor/.NET dlls and other python libraries, we create a second internal process in which we load and control the camera to isolate it from the main python process. :mod:`thorcam.camera` provides a object oriented interface to the camera in the second process so the camera can be configured and played etc. See :ref:`thorcam-examples`. Usage ------ To use thorcam, you first need to install it, see :ref:`install-thorcam`. After it's installed, it can be used like any python library. See :ref:`thorcam-examples` for examples on how to use it. Complete API documentation is at :ref:``.