So I'm more than happy to do this (after I look at libgdigicam to
work
out how to focus the N900's camera and turn the LED on), as long as
people want to use it, I don't want to waste time chopping things
up if
no-one wants to use it afterwards.
I want to use it. =)
An easy-to-use
On Thursday 15 October 2009 10:58:45 Simon Pickering wrote:
Someone mentioned sending the barcodes out over DBUS, is this of
interest? Any use cases?
So I'm more than happy to do this (after I look at libgdigicam to work
out how to focus the N900's camera and turn the LED on), as long as
So I'm more than happy to do this (after I look at libgdigicam to work
out how to focus the N900's camera and turn the LED on), as long as
people want to use it, I don't want to waste time chopping things up if
no-one wants to use it afterwards.
I want to use it. =)
An easy-to-use wrapper
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 01:09 +0200, ext Simon Pickering wrote:
Hi all
Hi you
So all in all it's still work in progress, but it does at least work
well enough to test. Except that I use dialogs to ask the user if they
want to open a decoded URL/add a decoded vCard, and if these dialogs are
For 1D codes mbarcode will attempt a very basic webscrape of Amazon and
will (hopefully) return a title (rather than a segfault). For URLs
encoded in a QR code/datamatrix it will open the webbrowser and for
vCards it will add them to your contacts.
Why is it necessary to do a webscrape
Hi Kimmo,
So all in all it's still work in progress, but it does at least work
well enough to test. Except that I use dialogs to ask the user if they
want to open a decoded URL/add a decoded vCard, and if these dialogs are
displayed the UI locks up straight afterwards. If I comment them
For 1D codes mbarcode will attempt a very basic webscrape of Amazon and
will (hopefully) return a title (rather than a segfault). For URLs
encoded in a QR code/datamatrix it will open the webbrowser and for
vCards it will add them to your contacts.
Why is it necessary to do a
On Thursday 15 October 2009 09:10:44 Simon Pickering wrote:
Replying to myself, another option (which is the same one that Android
Scan/CompareEverywhere uses) would be to move the scraping to a
server. This might let me use a single key for all the queries (though
it may still break the terms
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 10:43 +0100, Graham Cobb wrote:
On Thursday 15 October 2009 09:10:44 Simon Pickering wrote:
Replying to myself, another option (which is the same one that Android
Scan/CompareEverywhere uses) would be to move the scraping to a
server. This might let me use a single key
On 15.10.2009 10:57, Simon Pickering wrote:
For 1D codes mbarcode will attempt a very basic webscrape of Amazon and
will (hopefully) return a title (rather than a segfault). For URLs
encoded in a QR code/datamatrix it will open the webbrowser and for
vCards it will add them to your
Hi Jody,
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 21:42 +0300, Jody Fanning wrote:
On 15.10.2009 10:57, Simon Pickering wrote:
For 1D codes mbarcode will attempt a very basic webscrape of Amazon and
will (hopefully) return a title (rather than a segfault). For URLs
encoded in a QR code/datamatrix it
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:42:40PM +0300, Jody Fanning wrote:
On 15.10.2009 10:57, Simon Pickering wrote:
Why is it necessary to do a webscrape of Amazon. Amazon has plenty
of simple APIs for getting data freely and easily. The REST based ones
are extremely simple and you get back an XML
The code is here:
https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/branches/simon_wip/maemo-barcode/?root=maemo-barcode
binaries here: (you need to install libdmtx0, then just run the mbarcode
binary after chmod'ing it):
http://people.bath.ac.uk/enpsgp/nokia770/mbarcode/fremantle/
I
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