Control flash system from a c++ program

I'm currently building a c++ program (with Qt) to take picture from a camera device. This part is actualy done, now I need to control 8 flashs divided in two groups in an automatic way.

The flash I already use are from ELINCHROM http://www.elinchrom.com/ and this device seems to be perfect for what I need but I could not find a开发者_StackOverflow社区nywhere a way to control it from a different application than the one elinchrom propose.

Do you know if what I intend to do is even possible? If a solution exist with another brand I will also take it.

Thank you in advance for any replies, and please excuse my english.

Should be possible; the driver guide states that the driver is really a USB serial port driver. That means you can probably reverse-engineer the protocol.