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Benn Mapes commented on CB-2083:
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Hi Alan,
I'm having trouble reproducing this issue on WP7 running cordova 2.3.0
I am able to capture and retrieve a picture using both FILE_URI and DATA_URL.
As long as saveToPhotoAlbum is set to false in the cameraOptions (passed in to
getPicture), the photo is not saved to the Saved Pictures album.
I'll try and get my hands on a WP8 device to test this as well. If you have
some code to reproduce any of these issues in WP7 I'd love to see it.
Cheers,
~Benn
> Cordova for WP7 getPicture Leaves Photos in Camera Roll
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CB-2083
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2083
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: WP7
> Affects Versions: 2.2.0
> Environment: Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8, when using the WP7
> repo
> Reporter: Alan Neveu
> Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: Annoyance, Enhancement
> Original Estimate: 48h
> Remaining Estimate: 48h
>
> getPicture with FileURI does not work, it crashes.
> getPicture with DataURL works, but it leaves a copy of the photo on the
> phone's Camera Roll. The user then gets very frustrated because they have
> this mess of photos from your app cluttering up their personal photos, and
> then have to delete them. If they are using SkyDrive on Windows Phone 8,
> they will also have a copy of every photo automatically saved to their
> SkyDrive account, which then they have to delete from there as well, cursing
> your app with every delete operation. Oh, I think that in Windows Phone 7
> this is not the case, but it is the case with Windows Phone 8.
> It turns out this is due to the CameraCaptureTask function, which makes it
> exceedingly simple to get a photo but has this undesirable side effect. You
> cannot just delete the file, though, because of a security exception.
> The solution is to re-write Camera.cs so that it uses the full camera API
> rather than just the CameraCaptureTask function. That's a couple days of
> labor, for sure, but someone needs to do this or else the Windows Phone 8
> platform will suffer from this annoying bug for all that rely on Cordova.
> When asked why their app has this annoyance the reply will be "Ah, it's one
> of those stupid phonegap apps..." I hate that answer. So I hope that
> someone who has the time will contribute to this issue. I will give it a try
> in a few weeks when I finish up the projects that I have been putting on hold
> while upgrading my app to Windows Phone 8 capable, but I just can't get to it
> for a few weeks. I am hoping that this summary will help someone else get a
> jump start on this issue as they won't have to do so much preliminary
> research before starting.
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