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Hi folks,

I need take a picture but overlaying marks to help the user to center the picture.
I search into the forum but I don't found any but I remember read something about any app.

It's posible?

Thanks in advance,
Josep M

Hi,

Attach a example of what I need.

Salut,
Josep M

Hi Josep,

let me see if I understand you right...

1. User "picks" a photo
2. you want to show these 4 white "angels" on top and bottom as a help to center the photo
3. the photo itself still needs to be "movable"

Is that correct?

In that case I would create two transparent PNG files, both as wide a the card/screen:
1. with the two angles on top
2. one for the two angles at the bottom

Know what I mean?
Then you can place these images on top of the "picked" photo and the user still can "move" the image itself,
as long as you scripted this accordingly for the new image

Hope I got it right.


Best

Klaus

Hi Klaus,

Thanks for answer. Yes, this can a posible solution but my initial idea is that the white angles appear when you are taking the photo, in real time when you prepare to shot.

But would be a good solution.

Salut,
Josep M

Hi Josep,

ah, I see, but I doubt this is possible, since we cannot "hook" into that actual "take a snapshot preview/display" iOS thing.
But I may be wrong


Best

Klaus

Hi,

Maybe via external... mergExt scancode take the control of the camera directly..

Salut,
Josep M

This would definitely be possible in an external. The main issue is making the creation of the overlay in a generic way so that it can suit multiple purposes. It would be easy to do as a custom solution though.

I haven't tried this but one possibility might be if you used a transparent png in a transparent webview. You could try creatIng that after the mergZXing control and see what happens. If you want to take pictures instead of scan then you will need to wait until mergAV gets the control.

Cheers

Monte

Hi Monte,

Thanks for answer. I will try it and report it the results.


Salut,
Josep M

Monte: Thanks for the NEW MergAV 2.0 External with direct/native video and image capture! Enhances the UX.

monte wrote:This would definitely be possible in an external. The main issue is making the creation of the overlay in a generic way so that it can suit multiple purposes. It would be easy to do as a custom solution though.

I haven't tried this but one possibility might be if you used a transparent png in a transparent webview. You could try creatIng that after the mergZXing control and see what happens. If you want to take pictures instead of scan then you will need to wait until mergAV gets the control.

Cheers

Monte

Hi! Can I just ask if this is possible on Android deployment? Since the mergEXT is for iOS only, is there any other ways to do this for Android on Livecode??

In that case I would create two transparent PNG files, both as wide a the card/screen:
1. with the two angles on top
2. one for the two angles at the bottom

I'm not sure quite why you'd want 2 PNG files:

1. If you are always going to deploy your app on one specific phone (unlikely) you could get away with 1 PNG file.

2. If you are aiming at a wide range of devices with differing widths and heights of screens then you will need 4 PNG images.
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It is not just size qua size that has to be taken into account: aspect ratio is also important.

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This is in the cardScript: