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ASF GitHub Bot commented on CB-2083:
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Github user riknoll commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-camera/pull/203#discussion_r59300947
--- Diff: README.md ---
@@ -526,3 +526,207 @@ Tizen only supports a `destinationType` of
[web_activities]:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/01/introducing-web-activities/
[wp8_bug]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2083
[msdn_wp8_docs]:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh394006.aspx
+
+## Sample: Take Pictures, Select Pictures from the Picture Library, and
Get Thumbnails
+
+The Camera plugin allows you to do things like open the device's Camera
app and take a picture, or open the file picker and select one. The code
snippets in this section demonstrate different tasks including:
+
+* Open the Camera app and take a Picture
+* Take a picture and return thumbnails (resized picture)
+* Take a picture and generate a FileEntry object
+* Select a file from the picture library
+* Select a JPEG image and return thumbnails (resized image)
+* Select an image and generate a FileEntry object
+
+## Take a Picture
+
+Before you can take a picture, you need to set some Camera plugin options
to pass into the Camera plugin's `getPicture` function. Here is a common set of
recommendations. In this example, you create the object that you will use for
the Camera options, and set the `sourceType` dynamically to support both the
Camera app and the file picker.
+
+```js
+function setOptions(srcType) {
+ var options = {
+ quality: 20,
+ destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI,
+ // In this app, dynamically set the picture source, Camera or
photo gallery
+ sourceType: srcType,
+ encodingType: Camera.EncodingType.JPEG,
+ mediaType: Camera.MediaType.PICTURE,
+ allowEdit: true,
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Why do we recommend this quality? I'm not arguing against it, just curious.
> Cordova for WP8 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: WP8 (deprecated)
> Affects Versions: 2.2.0
> Environment: Windows Phone 8
> 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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