Hi, http://maemo.org/community/maemo-developers/intercept_camera_slider_open_event_to_default_camera_app--n900/ suggests to do what BlessN900 currently does.
Best regards, Faheem On 23/07/2010, Martin Storsjö <mar...@martin.st> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm developing an app that uses the camera, and aiming for Ovi Store. > > One of the issues that Ovi QA complained about is that if the lens cover > isn't opened, I should add a banner saying that to the user. That's easy > enough, but when the user actually opens the lens cover, the camera app > opens (but since my app has grabbed the camera, fails to start). Is there > any way to block this while my app is running - since if the user has > started my app, and my app displays a banner telling the user to open the > lens cover, the user obviously don't want the camera app to start. > > I've tried to explore different ways to accomplish this, but most of them > requires the app to run as root. One really simple way would be to do > > echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/gpio-switch/cam_shutter/disable > > but that obviously requires root. I also tried to check what other apps, > such as shortcutd do, but they don't seem to work as intended with the > camera button on PR 1.2. Other ways to accomplish it would be to > reroute/remove the signals, as outlined here: > > http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=495516&postcount=72 > > But that requires root, too. And if the camera-ui process is killed, it > respawns immediately. > > Any hints on how to solve this in the best way? I don't want my app to > fail in the next QA round with the reason "camera app is launched and > closes immediately if the lens cover is opened while your app is running". > > I guess I should discuss this issue with Ovi Publisher Support, too, but I > don't really expect to get coding hints from there. > > // Martin > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
