On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:33:49 +0200, Alejandro López wrote: >Brian Keck wrote: >>snip >Did this happened after upgrading to PR1.3? I've only had it 3 weeks ... don't know what PR is in it. (Have the impression upgrading wipes your /etc & /usr/bin ... not attractive if so.) On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:05:50 CDT, Paul Hartman wrote: >On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Brian Keck <bwkeck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>snip >Open your camera lens, close the camera app if it auto-starts, then >run mbarcode. Aim it at a barcode. >The application has a lighter-colored window in the middle of the >screen with a red line in it. Be sure your barcode fits entirely in >the light area. If it is a one-dimensional barcode, align it so that >the red line goes all the way through the whole barcode. It should >automatically detect and decode the barcode at that point, taking you >to a new screen where it shows the content of the barcode, link to >google it, etc. >Depending on lighting/color of barcode/angle of camera etc. it can >sometimes take a while to read it, or not work at all, but in the vast >majority of times I've tried it will read the barcode withinin two or >three seconds. Thanks ... that gives me the idea. Tried harder to hold it still & tried a brighter light, but it just keeps scanning. Ie seems not to recognize the scene as containing a barcode. On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:21:04 EDT, "R. A. Bilonick" wrote: >On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 23:25 +1100, Brian Keck wrote: >>snip >It took me a few tries to figure out how to scan. Start mbarcode, open >the camera lens, and close the camera program after it opens. Align the >N900 so that the barcode shows in the main viewing window. When you have >it reasonably large and centered, tap the viewing area once or twice to >cause mbarcode to focus. After a few seconds, the barcode numbers should >show up on the right hand side window. (I've never been able to do >anything with the bar code once it was captured! The only on-screen >buttons I see are scan and Open Image. I'm running PR1.3. I don't see >any settings for mbarcode. Maybe I need to install the plugins?) Ditto. On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:28:46 EDT, "R. A. Bilonick" wrote: >On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 15:21 -0400, R. A. Bilonick wrote: >>On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 23:25 +1100, Brian Keck wrote: >>>snip >>snip >I only found two plugins (isbn and web request) and installed them. Now >mbarcode works differently with the red line. But it works fine and I >can search the output. Pretty neat. Thanks for your help, Brian Keck
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