On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:52:09 +1100, Brian Keck wrote: >snip >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. >snip Feel it my duty to the list to expose my silliness once more. Works fine once I got my brain in gear ... 1) hold the n900 so that the red line within the box intersects the whole width of the barcode (top & bottom of the barcode can be outside the box ... guess it just scans along the red line) 2) press & hold the camera button till it switches to the 'results' screen _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users