> >> 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
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 wra
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 bac
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/da
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
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 si
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
On Thursday 15 October 2009 07:50:21 Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 01:09 +0200, ext Simon Pickering wrote:
> > 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
> > > 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 necess
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
> > 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 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"
> 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/
Hi all
I've been hacking away at maemo-barcode (now called mbarcode to remove
the maemo bit as we're not supposed to use that;) and have made some
progress.
The code is here:
https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/branches/simon_wip/maemo-barcode/?root=maemo-barcode
binaries here: (
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